| Citation: | Palidan Wusiman, Haibo Gu. INTERVAL-VALUED FRACTIONAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS WITH LENGTH CONSTRAINTS[J]. Journal of Applied Analysis & Computation, 2026, 16(4): 2079-2096. doi: 10.11948/20250125 |
This article investigates the existence of solutions for Caputo-type interval-valued fractional differential equations (IVFDEs) with length constraints. We begin by considering a class of IVFDEs that include impulsive effects. Then, we explore IVFDEs with impulses related to length constraints. Using fixed-point theory, we obtain several existence results. Importantly, we employ impulses to control the length of solutions to IVFDEs. Additionally, we present several examples to demonstrate our main results.
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Graph of the forward solution (3.9) (the red curve represents
Graph of the forward solution (3.11) (the red curve represents
The forward solution to problem (4.4) with
The forward solution to problem (4.4) with