EXISTENCE OF POSITIVE SOLUTIONS FOR A COUPLED
SYSTEM OF NONLINEAR BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS
OF FRACTIONAL ORDER WITH INTEGRAL
BOUNDARY CONDITIONS
Moses B. Akorede1, Peter O. Arawomo2
1,2 Department of Mathematics
University of Ibadan
Ibadan, NIGERIA

Abstract

In this work, we discuss the existence of positive solutions for a coupled system of nonlinear boundary value problems of fractional order with integral boundary conditions.

The existence result is obtained by means of Krasnosel'skii fixed-point theorem in a cone.

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Journal: International Journal of Applied Mathematics
Journal ISSN (Print): ISSN 1311-1728
Journal ISSN (Electronic): ISSN 1314-8060
Volume: 30
Issue: 4
Year: 2017

DOI: 10.12732/ijam.v30i4.1

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