Existence results and the monotone iterative technique for nonlinear fractional differential systems with coupled four-point boundary value problems. (English) Zbl 1472.34037

Cui, Yujun; Zou, Yumei

Abstr. Appl. Anal. 2014, Article ID 242591, 6 p. (2014).

Summary: By establishing a comparison result and using the monotone iterative technique combined with the method of upper and lower solutions, we investigate the existence of solutions for nonlinear fractional differential systems with coupled four-point boundary value problems.

MSC:

34B10	Nonlocal and multipoint boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations
34A08	Fractional ordinary differential equations
34A45	Theoretical approximation of solutions to ordinary differential equations

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