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March  2021, 26(3): 1723-1747. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2020180

## Existence results for fractional differential equations in presence of upper and lower solutions

 1 Université de Monastir, Faculté des Sciences de Monastir, , LR18ES17, 5000 Monastir, Tunisie 2 Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Instituto de Matemáticas, Santiago de Compostela, 15782, Spain

* Corresponding author: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Instituto de Matemáticas, Santiago de Compostela, 15782, Spain

Received  August 2019 Revised  April 2020 Published  June 2020

Fund Project: The second author is supported by grant numbers MTM2016-75140-P (AEI/FEDER, UE) and ED431C 2019/02 (GRC Xunta de Galicia)

In this paper, we study some existence results for fractional differential equations subject to some kind of initial conditions. First, we focus on the linear problem and we give an explicit form of solutions by reduction to an integral problem. We analyze some properties of the solutions to the linear problem in terms of its coefficients. Then we provide examples of application of the mentioned properties. Secondly, with the help of this theory, we study the nonlinear problem subject to initial value conditions. By using the upper and lower solutions method and the monotone iterative algorithm, we show the existence and localization of solutions to the nonlinear fractional differential equation.

Citation: Rim Bourguiba, Rosana Rodríguez-López. Existence results for fractional differential equations in presence of upper and lower solutions. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - B, 2021, 26 (3) : 1723-1747. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2020180
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##### References:
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Applications of Fractional Calculus to Dynamics of Particles, Fields and Media, Nonlinear Physical Science, Springer, Heidelberg; Higher Education Press, Beijing, 2010. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-14003-7.  Google Scholar [25] J. Wu, X. Zhang, L. Liu and Y. Wu, Positive solution of singular fractional differential system with nonlocal boundary conditions, Adv. Difference Equ., 323 (2014), 15 pp. doi: 10.1186/1687-1847-2014-323.  Google Scholar [26] N. Xu and W. Liu, Iterative solutions for a coupled system of fractional differential integral equations with two-point boundary conditions, Appl. Math. Comput., 244 (2014), 903-911.  doi: 10.1016/j.amc.2014.07.043.  Google Scholar [27] X. Zhang, L. Liu and Y. Wu, Existence results for multiple positive solutions of nonlinear higher order perturbed fractional differential equations with derivatives, Appl. Math. Comput., 19 (2012), 1420-1433.  doi: 10.1016/j.amc.2012.07.046.  Google Scholar [28] X. Zhang, Y. Wu and Y. Cui, Existence and nonexistence of blow-up solutions for a Schrödinger equation involving a nonlinear operator, Appl. Math. Lett., 82 (2018), 85-91.  doi: 10.1016/j.aml.2018.02.019.  Google Scholar
Graph of the solution to (17)
Graph of the solution for a negative forcing term
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 $\begin{array}{c} f \leq 0 \mbox{ on } [0,b] \\ c\leq 0 \\ \lambda \geq 0 \\ R\geq 0 \end{array}$ $\begin{array}{c} f \leq 0 \mbox{ on } [0,b] \\ c\leq 0 \\ \lambda\geq 0 \\ R\leq 0\end{array}$
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