Existence of a positive solution to a class of fractional differential equations

Applied Mathematics Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1050-1055

  Goodrich, Christopher S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary value problem; Continuous fractional calculus; Fixed point theorem in cones; Green's function; Right focal problem

Indexed keywords

EXISTENCE THEOREM; FIXED POINT THEOREM IN CONES; FRACTIONAL CALCULUS; FRACTIONAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; POSITIVE SOLUTION; RIEMANN-LIOUVILLE FRACTIONAL DERIVATIVES;

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; CALCULATIONS;

GREEN'S FUNCTION;

EID: 77953688007     PISSN: 08939659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aml.2010.04.035     Document Type: Article

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