Abstract

In this paper, we investigate a class of integral boundary value problems of fractional differential equations with a -Laplacian operator. Existence of solutions is obtained by using the fixed point theorem, and an example is given to show the applicability of our main result.

1. Introduction

In this paper, we consider the nonlinear fractional differential equations with a -Laplacian operator and integral boundary conditions where , , , , , and are the Caputo fractional derivative.

is the -Laplacian operator such that , , and , and is a given continuous function.

In recent years, boundary value problems of fractional differential equations have significantly been discussed by some researchers because fractional calculus theory and methods have been widely used in various fields of natural sciences and social sciences. In the field of physical mechanics, fractional calculus not only provides suitable mathematical tools for the study of soft matter but also provides new research ideas and plays an irreplaceable role in the modeling of soft matter [1–3]. Some nonlinear analysis tools such as coincidence degree theory [4, 5], upper and lower solution method [6–8], fixed point theorems [9–11], and variational methods [12–14] have been widely used to discuss existence of solutions for boundary value problems of fractional differential equations.

On the other hand, it is well known that differential equation models with -Laplacian operators are often used to simulate practical problems such as tides caused by celestial gravity and elastic deformation of beams and rich results of fractional differential equations with a -Laplacian operator have been obtained [15–18]. In particular, in [15], by using the fixed point theorem, Yan et al. studied the existence of solutions for boundary value problems of fractional differential equations with a -Laplacian operator: where , , , , , , , is the standard Riemann-Liouville derivative, and is a given countinuous function.

Moreover, during the last decade, the integral boundary value problem of fractional differential equations is also a hot issue for scholars and some good results have been achieved [19–23]. In [24], by using the method of the upper and lower solutions and Schauder’s and Banach’s fixed points theorem, Abdo et al. obtained the existence and uniqueness of a positive solution of the fractional differential equations with integral boundary equations: where , , , is the standard Caputo derivative, and is a given countinuous function.

In [25], Bai and Qiu discuss the existence of positive solutions for boundary value problems of fractional differential equations: where , ,and is the standard Caputo derivative.

Motivated by the works mentioned above, we concentrate on the solutions for the nonlinear fractional differential equation (1). We obtain the existence result of the fractional differential equations with integral boundary equations by using the Schauder fixed point theorem and other mathematical analysis techniques.

The rest of this paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, we give some notations and lemmas. Section 3 is devoted to study existence of solutions for boundary value problems of fractional differential equations. Finally, we provide an example to illustrate our results.

2. Preliminaries

In the section, we present some definitions and lemmas, which are required for building our theorems.

Definition 1 (see [1]). The fractional integral of orderof functionis given bywhereis the Gamma function, provided the right side is pointwise defined on.

Definition 2 (see [2]). The Caputo fractional derivative of orderof functionis given bywhere, is the Gamma function.

Lemma 3 (see [26]). For, the solution of fractional differential equationis given by, , , , anddenotes the integer part of the real number.

Lemma 4 (see [1]). For, then (i) , , and (ii) .

Lemma 5 (see [1]). Letbe a Banach space anda convex, closed, and bounded set. Ifis a continuous operator such that, is relatively compact, thenhas at least one fixed point in.
Let , then . We now consider the following equations:

Lemma 6. Let, then (7) has a unique solutionwhere

Proof. Suppose satisfies boundary value problem (7), by (i) of Lemma 4, we can obtain Using the boundary condition , we can obtain Thus, From the above analysis, the equation is equivalent to

Lemma 7. Let. Then (14) has a unique solution:where

Proof. By (i) of Lemma (4), we can obtain . Then, , using the boundary condition , we can obtain Another, because we have Now, we express _, let We obtain Therefore, Reverse, if by (ii) of Lemma (4), we can obtain that is a solution of (14).
The proof is completed.

Lemma 8. The functionsis continuous onand has the following properties:(1)(2)

Proof. (1) For any , by (9), it is obvious that . (2) For any , by (9), we conclude that Therefore, This completes the proof.