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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">journal-of-dynamical-systems-and-geometric-theories</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Journal of Dynamical Systems and Geometric Theories</journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn publication-format="electronic">2169-0057</issn>
      <issn publication-format="print">1726-037X</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Taru Publications</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1080/1726037X.2017.1327162</article-id>
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        <article-title>Upper and lower solutions method for higher order fractional initial value problems</article-title>
      </title-group>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name>
            <surname>Guezane-Lakoud</surname>
            <given-names>Assia</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>LABORATORY OF ADVANCED MATERIALS, BADJI MOKHTAR-ANNABA UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS, ANNABA, P.O. BOX 12, 23000, ALGERIA</aff>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Khaldi</surname>
            <given-names>Rabah</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>LABORATORY OF ADVANCED MATERIALS, BADJI MOKHTAR-ANNABA UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS, ANNABA, P.O. BOX 12, 23000, ALGERIA</aff>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <volume>15</volume>
      <issue>1</issue>
      <fpage>29</fpage>
      <lpage>35</lpage>
      <pub-date date-type="pub">
        <day>12</day>
        <month>06</month>
        <year>2017</year>
      </pub-date>
      <abstract>
        <p>This paper concerns the existence of solution to an initial fractional problem of arbitrary order. The main tools for this study are the lower ad upper solutions method and Schauder’s fixed point Theorem.</p>
      </abstract>
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        <kwd>Initial value problemFractional derivativeUpper and lower solutions methodExistence of solution</kwd>
      </kwd-group>
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          <meta-name>retracted</meta-name>
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