Korean J. Math. Vol. 33 No. 4 (2025) pp.343-354
DOI: https://doi.org/10.11568/kjm.2025.33.4.343

Existence and Uniqueness of Positive Solutions for a Class of Fractional Differential Equations with a Parameter

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Pengcheng Yuan
Zhaocai Hao
Martin Bohner

Abstract

In this paper, we use the features of generalized concave operators to verify the uniqueness of positive solutions and establish the existence of positive solutions for a certain class of fractional differential equations.



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