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Abstract and Applied Analysis
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 512127, 16 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/512127
Positive Solutions of Eigenvalue Problems for a Class of Fractional Differential Equations with Derivatives
1School of Mathematical and Informational Sciences, Yantai University, Yantai, Shandong 264005, China
2School of Mathematical Sciences, Qufu Normal University, Qufu, Shandong 273165, China
3Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10400, Thailand
4Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, WA 6845, Australia
Received 2 January 2012; Accepted 15 March 2012
Academic Editor: Shaoyong Lai
Copyright © 2012 Xinguang Zhang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
By establishing a maximal principle and constructing upper and lower solutions, the existence of positive solutions for the eigenvalue problem of a class of fractional differential equations is discussed. Some sufficient conditions for the existence of positive solutions are established.