Fractional fundamental lemma and fractional integration by parts formula -- Applications to critical points of Bolza functionals and to linear boundary value problems

In the first part of the paper, we prove a fractional fundamental (du Bois-Reymond) lemma and a fractional variant of the integration by parts formula. The proof of the second result is based on an integral representation of functions possessing Riemann-Liouville fractional derivatives, derived in this paper too. In the second part of the paper, we use the previous results to give necessary optimality conditions of Euler-Lagrange type (with boundary conditions) for fractional Bolza functionals and to prove an existence result for solutions of linear fractional boundary value problems. In the last case we use a Hilbert structure and the Stampacchia theorem.

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