Abstract. This work deals with asymptotic periodicity and compactness for a class of composite fractional relaxation equations. Some di culties arise when the e ect of di erent kinds of nonhomogeneous terms is taken into consideration. To overcome these, we use methods resulting from regularized families and xed point techniques, which are an important tool to study nonlinear phenomena. We can cover a large class of nonlinearities.© 2018 Sharif University of Technology. All rights reserved.
Statement of resultsFractional calculus is a eld of mathematical analysis, which deals with the investigation and applications of integration and di erentiation of any order, not necessarily integer. This eld has in recent years become a powerful tool to investigate various concrete problems of mathematical physics. For this reason, there is much interest in developing the qualitative theory of fractional evolution equation, i.e., evolution equations where the integer derivative with respect to time is replaced by a derivative of fractional order (see [1][2][3]). We set up our problem and formulate the obtained results precisely. Let X be an arbitrary Banach space. In this work, we study asymptotic periodicity and compactness properties of solutions for a composite fractional relaxation equation in X. Let us start with the linear case (when = 1 2 corresponds to the Basset problem a classical in uid dynamics)(see and A is a closed linear operator, which is the generator of an (a; k)-regularized family (in this setting, we comment that the notion of (a; k)-regularized families of operators, introduced in [5], includes k-convoluted semigroups, r-times integrated cosine families, and integral resolvent [4,6]) R (t) of bounded linear operators from X into X (see De nition 2.1), with k(t) = e t and a(t) = t E 1;1 ( t), where E ; ( ) denotes the Mittag-Le er function, which is de ned as follows: where H a is a Henkel path, i.e. a contour with starts