Existence and Uniqueness of Positive Solutions for a Class of Nonlinear Fractional Differential Equations with Singular Boundary Value Conditions

This paper focuses on a singular boundary value (SBV) problem of nonlinear fractional differential (NFD) equation defined as follows: D 0 + β υ τ + f τ , υ τ = 0 , τ ∈ 0,1 , υ 0 = υ ′ 0 = υ ″ 0 = υ ″ 1 = 0 , where 3 < β ≤ 4 , D 0 + β is the standard Riemann–Liouville fractional (RLF) derivative. The nonlinear function f τ , υ τ might be singular on the spatial and temporal variables. This paper proves that a positive solution to the SBV problem exists and is unique, taking advantage of Green’s function through a fixed-point (FP) theory on cones and mixed monotone operators.