Symmetric positive solutions for a fractional singular integro-differential boundary value problem in presence of Caputo-Fabrizio fractional derivative

Abstract

We introduce the notion of Caputo-Fabrizio left and right derivatives. We present sufficient conditions for the existence of symmetric positive solutions for the following Caputo-Fabrizio fractional singular integro-differential boundary value problem \begin{align*} (2-μ)\,{}^{CF}D_{0}^{\,μ}x(t)+f(t,x(t))&=\left(\frac{μ-1}{2-μ}\right)^{2} \begin{cases} \int_{t}^{0}e^{-\frac{μ-1}{2-μ}(τ-t)}\,x(τ)dτ,\hspace{0.4cm}&t\in(-1,0],\\ \int_{0}^{t}e^{-\frac{μ-1}{2-μ}(t-τ)}\,x(τ)dτ,\hspace{0.4cm}&t\in[0,1), \end{cases}\\ x(\pm1)=x'(0^{\pm})&=0,\hspace{5.55cm}μ\in(1,2), \end{align*} where the nonlinearity $f:(-1,1)\times (0,\infty )\to \mathbb{R}$ is continuous and singular at $t=-1$, $t=1$ and $x=0$.