Abstract
The paper is concerned with the complete controllability of fractional evolution systems without involving the compactness of characteristic solution operators introduced by us. The main techniques rely on the fractional calculus, properties of characteristic solution operators and fixed point theorems. Since we do not assume the characteristic solution operators are compact, our theorems guarantee the effectiveness of controllability results in the infinite dimensional spaces. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.