Fractional Sturm–Liouville Eigenvalue Problems, II

Abstract

We continue the study of a non-self-adjoint fractional three-term Sturm–Liouville boundary value problem (with a potential term) formed by the composition of a left Caputo and left Riemann–Liouville fractional integral under Dirichlet type boundary conditions. We study the existence and asymptotic behavior of the real eigenvalues and show that for certain values of the fractional differentiation parameter α, 0<α<1, there is a finite set of real eigenvalues and that, for α near 1/2, there may be none at all. As α→1− we show that their number becomes infinite and that the problem then approaches a standard Dirichlet Sturm–Liouville problem with the composition of the operators becoming the operator of second order differentiation.