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A two-point boundary value problem whose highest-order term is a Caputo fractional derivative of order $\delta \in (1,2)$ is considered. Al-Refai's comparison principle is improved and modified to fit our problem. Sharp a priori bounds on…
An initial-boundary value problem with a Caputo time derivative of fractional order $\alpha\in(0,1)$ is considered, solutions of which typically exhibit a singular behaviour at an initial time. For this problem, we give a simple and general…
We introduce a discrete-time fractional calculus of variations on the time scale $h\mathbb{Z}$, $h > 0$. First and second order necessary optimality conditions are established. Examples illustrating the use of the new Euler-Lagrange and…
We consider the terminal value problem (or called final value problem, initial inverse problem, backward in time problem) of determining the initial value, in a general class of time-fractional wave equations with Caputo derivative, from a…
We study operators that are generalizations of the classical Riemann-Liouville fractional integral, and of the Riemann-Liouville and Caputo fractional derivatives. A useful formula relating the generalized fractional derivatives is proved,…
We consider an evolution equation with the regularized fractional derivative of an order $\alpha \in (0,1)$ with respect to the time variable, and a uniformly elliptic operator with variable coefficients acting in the spatial variables.…
A generalized fractional derivative (GFD) definition is proposed in this work. For a differentiable function that can be expanded by Taylor series, we show that D^Elafa*D^Beta f(t)=D^(Elafa+Beta)f(t). GFD is applied for some functions in…
We study some functionals associated with a process driven by a fractional boundary value problem (FBVP for short). By FBVP we mean a Cauchy problem with boundary condition written in terms of a fractional equation, that is an equation…
We consider fractional diffusion equation with the distributed order Caputo derivative. We prove existence of a weak and regular solution for general uniformly elliptic operator under the assumption that the weight function is only…
In the paper, the initial-boundary value problems to a semilinear integro-differential equation with multi-term fractional Caputo derivatives are analyzed. A particular case of this equation models oxygen diffusion through capillaries.…
We establish the optimal regularity of solutions to the Neumann problem for the fractional Laplacian, $(-\Delta)^s u=h$ in $\Omega$, with the external condition $\mathcal N^s u=0$ in $\Omega^c$. For this, a key point is to establish a 1D…
For an elliptic, semilinear differential operator of the form $S(u) = A : D^2 u + b(x, u , Du)$, consider the functional $E_\infty(u) = \mathop{\mathrm{ess \, sup}}_\Omega |S(u)|$. We study minimisers of $E_\infty$ for prescribed boundary…
We consider local weak solutions of widely degenerate elliptic PDEs of the type \begin{equation} \label{equazione mia} \mathrm{div}\Biggl(a(x)(|Du|-1)^{p-1}_+\frac{Du}{|Du|}\Biggr)=b(x,u) \ \ \text{ in }\Omega, \end{equation} where $2\leq…
Using both fractional derivatives, defined in the Riemann-Liouville and Caputo senses, and classical derivatives of the integer order we examine different numerical approaches to ordinary differential equations. Generally we formulate some…
We introduce and present the general solution of three two-term fractional differential equations of mixed Caputo/Riemann Liouville type. We then solve a Dirichlet type Sturm-Liouville eigenvalue problem for a fractional differential…
In this article we address the regularity of stable solutions to semilinear elliptic equations $-\Delta u = f(u)$ with MEMS type nonlinearities. More precisely, we will have $0\leq u \leq 1$ in a domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ and…
We discuss the existence and regularity of solutions to the following Dirichlet problem: $$\begin{equation} \begin{cases} -\textrm{div}\left(\frac{Du}{(1+|u|)^{\theta}}\right)= -\textrm{div}\left(u^{\gamma}E(x)\right)+f(x) \qquad & \mbox{in…
The aim of this paper is to obtain the existence of solutions for the following fractional p-Laplacian Dirichlet problem with mixed derivatives \begin{eqnarray*}…
We investigate forward and backward problems associated with abstract time-fractional Schr\"odinger equations $\mathrm{i}^\nu \partial_t^\alpha u(t) + A u(t)=0$, $\alpha \in (0,1)\cup (1,2)$ and $\nu\in\{1,\alpha\}$, where $A$ is a…
This paper concerns the existence of a nontrivial solution for the following problem \begin{equation} \left\{\begin{aligned} -\Delta u + V(x)u & \in \partial_u F(x,u)\;\;\mbox{a.e. in}\;\;\mathbb{R}^{N},\nonumber u \in…