Lyapunov's type inequalities for hybrid fractional differential equations (Q2629141)

The authors establish some Lyapunov's type inequalities, i.e., necessary conditions for the existence of nontrivial solutions of hybrid fractional boundary value problems of the type \[ D^\alpha_a \left [ \frac{y(t)}{f(t,y(t))} - \sum^n_{i=1} I^\beta_a h_i (t,y(t)) \right ] + g(t)y(t) = 0, \;t \in (a,b), \] \[ y(a) = y'(a) = y(b) =0, \] where \(D^\alpha_a\) denotes the Riemann-Liouville fractional derivative of order \(\alpha \in (2,3]\) starting from a point \(a\), \(y \in C([a,b],\mathbb{R}), g \in L^1 ((a,b],\mathbb{R}), f \in C^1([a,b]\times \mathbb{R},\mathbb{R} \setminus \{ 0 \}), h_i \in C([a,b]\times \mathbb{R},\mathbb{R})\) \(\forall i= 1,2,\ldots,n\), and \(I^\beta_a\) is the Riemann-Liouville fractional integral of order \(\beta \geq \alpha\) with the lower limit at a point \(a.\) The main results are obtained by constructing appropriate Green's functions and on finding their corresponding maximum values. Two numerical examples are given.