In this paper, the approximate controllability for a class of Hilfer fractional differential equations (FDEs) of order 1 < < 2 and type 0 ≤ ≤ 1 is considered.The existence and uniqueness of mild solutions for these equations are established by applying the Banach contraction principle. Further, we obtain a set of sufficient conditions for the approximate controllability of these equations.Finally, an example is presented to illustrate the obtained results.
KEYWORDSapproximate controllability, fractional differential equations, Hilfer fractional derivative
MSC CLASSIFICATION26A33; 34A08; 35R11; 93B05 k=0 (−z) k k!Γ(1− − k) is defined only when ∈ (0, 1). There are only few papers that deal with the FDEs of order 1 < < 2. By using sectorial operator and -resolvent family, Shu and Wang 16 investigated the existence of mild solutions for Caputo FDEs of order ∈ (1, 2). Li et al. 17 concerned the Cauchy problems for Riemann-Liouville FDEs of order ∈ (1, 2). Li et al. 18 researched the Caputo FDEs of order ∈ (1, 2). To the best of our knowledge, there is no results about Hilfer FDEs of order 1 < < 2 and type 0 ≤ ≤ 1.Math Meth Appl Sci. 2020;43:242-254. wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/mma