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Existence and uniqueness of positive solution to singular fractional differential equations

Yongqing Wang1*, Lishan Liu1,2 and Yonghong Wu2

Author Affiliations

1 School of Mathematical Sciences, Qufu Normal University, Qufu, Shandong, 273165, People’s Republic of China

2 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, WA, 6845, Australia

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Boundary Value Problems 2012, 2012:81 doi:10.1186/1687-2770-2012-81

Published: 28 July 2012

Abstract

In this paper, we discuss the existence and uniqueness of a positive solution to the following singular fractional differential equation with nonlocal boundary value conditions:

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MSC: 34B10, 34B15.

Keywords:
fractional differential equation; positive solution; iterative scheme; singular boundary value problem