HIGHER ORDER NONLOCAL NONLINEAR BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS FOR FRACTIONAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

In this paper, we study the method of upper and lower solutions and develop the generalized quasilinearization technique for the existence and approximation of solutions to some three-point nonlocal boundary value problems associated with higher order fractional differential equations of the type (c)D(0+)(q)u(t) + f(t, u(t)) = 0, t is an element of (0, 1) u'(0) = gamma u'(eta), u ''(0) = 0, u'" (0) = 0,...,u((n-1)) (0) = 0, u(1) = delta u(eta), where, n-1 < q < n, n(>= 3) is an element of N, 0 < eta, gamma, delta < 1 land D-c(0+)q is the Caputo fractional derivative of order q. The nonlinear function f is assumed to be continuous.