Sturm–Picone comparison theorem of a kind of conformable fractional differential equations on time scales

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the Sturm–Picone comparison theorem of conformable fractional differential equations on arbitrary time scales. Since the Picone identity plays an important role in discussing the Sturm comparison theorem. Firstly, we establish the Picone identity of conformable fractional differential equations on arbitrary time scales. By using this identity, we obtain our main result—the Sturm–Picone comparison theorem of conformable fractional differential equations on time scales. This result not only extends and improves the corresponding continuous and discrete time statement, but also contains the usual time scale case when the order of differentiation is one.