New existence results for positive solutions of boundary value problems for coupled systems of multi-term fractional differential equations

Year 2016, Volume: 45 Issue: 2, 391 - 416, 01.04.2016

Yuji Liu

Abstract

In this article, we establish some new existence results on positive solutions of a boundary value problem of coupled systems of nonlinear
multi-term fractional differential equations. Our analysis rely on the
well known fixed point theorems. Numerical examples are given to
illustrate the main theorems.

Keywords

Four-point boundary value problem, multi-term fractional differential system, non-Caratheodory function, fixed-point theorem

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