Existence results for nonlocal boundary value problems of nonlinear fractional q-difference equations Difference equations: New trends and applications in biology, medicine and biotechnology

Advances in Difference Equations

Volumn 2012, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Ahmad, Bashir ^a   Ntouyas, Sotiris K ^b   Purnaras, Ioannis K ^b  

^a KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

existence; fixed point; fractional q difference equations; Leray Schauder nonlinear alternative; nonlocal boundary conditions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873356580     PISSN: 16871839     EISSN: 16871847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1687-1847-2012-140     Document Type: Article

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