Boundary value problems for a class of stochastic nonlinear fractional order differential equations

Abstract

Consider a class of two-point Boundary Value Problems (BVP) for a stochastic nonlinear fractional order differential equation \(D^\alpha u(t)=\lambda\sqrt{I^\beta[\sigma^2(t,u(t))]}\dot{w}(t)\  ,0< t< 1\) with boundary conditions \(u(0)=0,\,\,u'(0)=u'(1)=0,\) where \(\lambda>0\) is a level of the noise term, \(\sigma:[0,1]\times\mathbb{R}\rightarrow\mathbb{R}\) is continuous, \(\dot{w}(t)\) is a generalized derivative of Wiener process (Gaussian white noise), \(D^\alpha\) is the Riemann-Liouville fractional differential operator of order \(\alpha\in (3,4)\) and \(I^\beta,\,\,\beta>0\) is a fractional integral operator. We formulate the solution of the equation via a stochastic Volterra-type equation and investigate its existence and uniqueness under some precise linearity conditions using contraction fixed point theorem. A case of the above BVP for a stochastic nonlinear second order differential equation for \(\alpha=2\) and \(\beta=0\) with \(u(0)=u(1)=0\) is also studied.