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International Journal of Differential Equations
Volume 2010 (2010), Article ID 649486, 10 pages
doi:10.1155/2010/649486
Research Article

Solvability of Nonlinear Langevin Equation Involving Two Fractional Orders with Dirichlet Boundary Conditions

Bashir Ahmad1 and Juan J. Nieto2

1Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, P.O. Box 80203, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia
2Departamento de Análisis Matemático, Facultad de Matemáticas, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Received 8 August 2009; Accepted 14 November 2009

Academic Editor: Nikolai Leonenko

Copyright © 2010 Bashir Ahmad and Juan J. Nieto. 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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