Angela M. Koester, Jeffrey T. Neugebauer, Smallest eigenvalues for fractional boundary value problems with a fractional boundary condition, Vol. 2017 (2017), Article ID 1, pp. 1-16

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DOI: 10.23952/jnfa.2017.1

 

Received July 20, 2016; Accepted  October 10, 2016

 

Abstract. Let n\in\mathbb{N}, n\ge 2. For n-1<\alpha\le n, we use the theory of u_0-positive operators to show the existence of and then compare smallest eigenvalues of the fractional boundary value problems D^\alpha_{0^+} u + \lambda_1 p(t) u=0, D^\alpha_{0^+} u + \lambda_2 q(t) u=0, 0<t<1, satisfying boundary conditions u^{(i)}(0)=0, i=0,1,\dots,n-2, D^\beta_{0^+} u(1)=0, 0\le\beta\le n-1, where p and q are nonnegative continuous functions on [0,1] which do not vanish identically on any nondegenerate compact subinterval of [0,1]. The cases where \beta=0 and \beta>0 are treated separately and then compared.

 

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Angela M. Koester, Jeffrey T. Neugebauer, Smallest eigenvalues for fractional boundary value problems with a fractional boundary condition, Journal Nonlinear Functional Analysis, Vol. 2017 (2017), Article ID 1, pp. 1-16.