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Solvability for fractional order boundary value problems at resonance

Zhigang Hu* and Wenbin Liu

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Department of Mathematics, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221008, People's Republic of China

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Boundary Value Problems 2011, 2011:20 doi:10.1186/1687-2770-2011-20

Published: 5 September 2011

Abstract

In this paper, by using the coincidence degree theory, we consider the following boundary value problem for fractional differential equation

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Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 34A08, 34B15.

Keywords:
Fractional differential equations; boundary value problems; resonance; coincidence degree theory