The existence of multiple positive solutions for boundary value problems of nonlinear fractional differential equations

Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 2086-2097

  Zhao, Yige ^a   Sun, Shurong ^a,b   Han, Zhenlai ^a,c   Li, Qiuping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JINAN   (China)

^b MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Boundary value problem; Fixed point theorem; Fractional differential equation; Fractional Green's function; Lower and upper solution method; Positive solution

Indexed keywords

FIXED POINT ARITHMETIC; FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; TOPOLOGY;

BOUNDARY-VALUE PROBLEM; FIXED POINTS THEOREMS; FRACTIONAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FRACTIONAL GREEN FUNCTION; GREENS FUNCTION; LOWER AND UPPER SOLUTION METHODS; MULTIPLE POSITIVE SOLUTIONS; NONLINEAR FRACTIONAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; POSITIVE SOLUTION; REAL NUMBER;

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS;

EID: 78049442199     PISSN: 10075704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cnsns.2010.08.017     Document Type: Article

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