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Abstract and Applied Analysis
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 837437, 7 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/837437
Research Article
Positive Solutions of an Initial Value Problem for Nonlinear Fractional Differential Equations
1Department of Mathematics, Cankaya University, Ogretmenler Cad. 14 06530, Balgat, Ankara, Turkey
2Institute of Space Sciences, Magurele, Bucharest, Romania
3Department of Mathematics, Azarbaijan University of Shahid Madani, Tabriz, Iran
Received 23 January 2012; Accepted 20 March 2012
Academic Editor: Juan J. Trujillo
Copyright © 2012 D. Baleanu 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.
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