TY - JOUR ID - Islam2015 LB - Islam2015 AU - Islam, Muhammad N. TI - Bounded, asymptotically stable, and L1 solutions of Caputo fractional differential equations ST - Bounded, asymptotically stable, and L1 solutions of Caputo fractional differential equations JO - Opuscula Math. JA - Opuscula Math. JF - Opuscula Mathematica PY - 2015 VL - 35 IS - 2 SP - 181 EP - 190 DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2015.35.2.181 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2015.35.2.181 AB - The existence of bounded solutions, asymptotically stable solutions, and \(L^1\) solutions of a Caputo fractional differential equation has been studied in this paper. The results are obtained from an equivalent Volterra integral equation which is derived by inverting the fractional differential equation. The kernel function of this integral equation is weakly singular and hence the standard techniques that are normally applied on Volterra integral equations do not apply here. This hurdle is overcomed using a resolvent equation and then applying some known properties of the resolvent. In the analysis Schauder's fixed point theorem and Liapunov's method have been employed. The existence of bounded solutions are obtained employing Schauder's theorem, and then it is shown that these solutions are asymptotically stable by a definition found in [C. Avramescu, C. Vladimirescu, On the existence of asymptotically stable solution of certain integral equations, Nonlinear Anal. 66 (2007), 472-483]. Finally, the \(L^1\) properties of solutions are obtained using Liapunov's method. KW - Caputo fractional differential equations KW - Volterra integral equations KW - weakly singular kernel KW - Schauder fixed point theorem KW - Liapunov's method SN - 1232-9274 ER -