EXISTENCE OF MULTIPLE SOLUTIONS TO A FRACTIONAL DIFFERENCE BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEM WITH PARAMETER.pdfVIP

Ann．o{Dif／．Eqs． 30：3(2014)，301—311 EXISTENCE oF M ULrIIPLE SoLUTIoNS To A FRACTIoNAL DIFFEREN CE BoUNDARY VALUE PRoBLEM W ITH PARAM ETER 十 DanLi， YanshengHe， ChengminH0u{ (Dept．ofMath．，YanbianUniversity，Yanji133002,Jilin) Abstract Byestablishingthecorrespondingvariationalrfamework，andusingcriticalpoint theory,wegivetheexistenceofmultiplesolutionstoafractionaldifferenceboundray valueproblem with parameter．Undersomesuitableassumptionsweobtain some resultswhichensuretheexistenceofwellpreciseintervalofparam eterforwhichthe problem admitsmultiplesolutions． Keywordsfractionaldifference；boundaryvalueproblem；praameter；vra iational ~amework；criticalpointtheory 2000M athematicsSubjectClassification 39A12；44A25；26A33 1 Introduction LetRandZbethesetsofrealnumbersandintegers，respectively．Fora，b∈R，N ∈Z withb=a+N，definea[，6]N= a，a+1，… ，6}．AssumethatTisagivenpositiveinteger withT 2．Weconsiderthefollowing2u—orderdifferenceboundaryvalueproblem fFBVP forshort) TAt~ _ 1 (p()t△ 一1z())+q(t)x(t+ 一1)=Af(t+ 一1，x(t+2／—1))，t∈[0，N。， (1) x(2／—2)= △ )(￡)】T=o (2) where2／∈(0，1)，t△ 一1andT△ arerespectivelytheleftfractionaldifferenceandthe rightfractionaldifferenceoperatorsandt△ is(1一2／)一thfractionalsum (whichwill beexplainedinmoredetailbelow)，p()，q(t)∈R，ofrt∈[-1，]N一，f(t+2／—1，)·： [2／—1，+ 一1】一】×R— Risanoddcontinuousfunction，and isapositiveparameter． Thefractionalcalculusisanimportantreseatch fieldinseveraldifierentareassuch as physics(includingclassicalandquantummechanicsaswellasthermodynamics)，chemistry, biology,economics，andcontroltheoryf1-51．Inthelastdecades，considerableresearchhas been donein fractionalcalculus．Thisisparticularly truein theareaofthecalculusof variations，whichisbeingsubjecttointenseinvestigationsduring