Fractional BVPs with strong time singularities and the limit properties of their solutions

In the first part, we investigate the singular BVP \(\tfrac{d} {{dt}}^c D^\alpha u + (a/t)^c D^\alpha u = \mathcal{H}u\) , u(0) = A, u(1) = B, ^c D ^α u(t)| _t=0 = 0, where \(\mathcal{H}\) is a continuous operator, α ∈ (0, 1) and a < 0. Here, ^c D denotes the Caputo fractional derivative. The existence result is proved by the Leray-Schauder nonlinear alternative. The second part establishes the relations between solutions of the sequence of problems \(\tfrac{d} {{dt}}^c D^{\alpha _n } u + (a/t)^c D^{\alpha _n } u = f(t,u,^c D^{\beta _n } u)\) , u(0) = A, u(1) = B, \(\left. {^c D^{\alpha _n } u(t)} \right|_{t = 0} = 0\) where a < 0, 0 < β _n ≤ α _n < 1, lim _n→∞ β _n = 1, and solutions of u″+(a/t)u′ = f(t, u, u′) satisfying the boundary conditions u(0) = A, u(1) = B, u′(0) = 0.