A fixed point approach to the solution of singular fractional differential equations with integral boundary conditions

In this article, we first demonstrate a fixed point result under certain contraction in the setting of controlled b-Branciari metric type spaces. Thereafter, we specifically consider a following boundary value problem (BVP) for a singular fractional differential equation of order α: $$ \begin{aligned} &{}^{c}D^{\alpha }v(t) + h \bigl(t,v(t) \bigr) = 0,\quad 0< t< 1, \\ &v''(0) = v'''(0) = 0, \\ &v'(0) = v(1) = \beta \int _{0}^{1} v(s) \,ds, \end{aligned} $$ D α c v ( t ) + h ( t , v ( t ) ) = 0 , 0 < t < 1 , v ″ ( 0 ) = v ‴ ( 0 ) = 0 , v ′ ( 0 ) = v ( 1 ) = β ∫ 0 1 v ( s ) d s , where $3<\alpha <4$ 3 < α < 4 , $0<\beta <2$ 0 < β < 2 , ${}^{c}D^{\alpha }$ D α c is the Caputo fractional derivative and h may be singular at $v = 0$ v = 0 . Eventually, we investigate the existence and uniqueness of solutions of the aforementioned boundary value problem of order α via a fixed point problem of an integral operator.