Abstract
In this paper, we study a nonlinear Riemann-Liouville fractional a q-difference system with multi-strip and multi-point mixed boundary conditions under the Caputo fractional q-derivative, where the nonlinear terms contain two coupled unknown functions and their fractional derivatives. Using the fixed point theorem for mixed monotone operators, we constructe iteration functions for arbitrary initial value and acquire the existence and uniqueness of extremal solutions. Moreover, a related example is given to illustrate our research results.
Keywords:
the coupled Riemann-Liouville fractional q-difference system; the Caputo fractional q-derivative boundary conditions; mixed monotone operator MSC:
34B18; 26A33; 34B27
1. Introduction
Fractional calculus come into people’s view in 1695 [1], extending the traditional integral calculus concept to the whole field of real numbers. It is originally of great significance in many areas [2]. As we all know, in the research process of these fields, equations need to be established to describe the specific change process. On the other hand, fractional calculus has the nice property of being able to accurately describe these processes with genetic and memory traits. Therefore, the fractional differential equation has gradually become the focus of people’s research. At the same time, the existence analysis, uniqueness analysis, stability analysis of solutions in fractional differential equation become an important research direction. Many scholars have studied them in recent years, and readers can refer to the literature [3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13].
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the appearance of Quantum Mechanics promoted the generation and development of Quantum calculus (q-calculus). F. H. Jackson made the first complete study of q-calculus [14,15]. Later W. A. Al-Salam [16] and R. P. Agarwal [17] proposed the basic concepts and properties of fractional q-calculus. Q-calculus has been an important bridge between mathematics and physics since its birth. It plays an extremely important role in quantum physics, spectral analysis and dynamical systems [18,19,20,21]. In recent years, q-calculus has also been increasingly used in engineering [22,23]. With the application and development of fractional differential equation and the extensive research and application of q-calculus in mathematics, physics and other fields, the study of fractional q-difference equation has become a topic of widespread concern. Increased experts begin to pay attention to the theoretical research of fractional q-difference equation [24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32].
In 2019, the authors [27] studied the boundary value problem of the following mixed fractional q-difference by the Guo–Krasnoselskii’s fixed point theorem and the Banach contraction mapping principle:
where , , are the Riemann–Liouville fractional q-derivative and Caputo fractional q-derivative of order , .
In [30], utilizing the monotone iterative approach, the authors are considered with the fractional q-difference system involing four-point boundary conditions:
where , , and .
In [9], in view of the method of mixed monotone operators, the conclusion of the existence and uniqueness of solutions for the following coupled system is drawn:
where the integer number and , : : and : are continuous functions, and represent the Riemann-Liouville derivatives.
There are many ways to deal with the boundary value problem, such as monotone iteration techniques, the Banach contraction mapping principle and so on. In these methods, the constraints are often stringent, one of which is that completely continuity of the operator must be proved and the proving process is often very complicated. However, The mixed monotone operators have relatively loose requirements and only need to prove some properties like the upper bound. Now, there has been some literature using it to prove the existence and uniqueness of solutions, see [9,10,11,12,13,31,32]. Therefore, this paper also intends to introduce this method to prove the corresponding conclusion.
Motivated by the above mentioned papers, we investigate the following coupled nonlinear fractional q-difference system:
subject to the multi-strip and multi-point mixed boundary conditions:
where are the Caputo fractional q-derivative and Riemann-Liouville fractional q-derivative of order respectively, and is the Riemann-Liouville fractional q-integral of order for and . , ; , , , for ; , , for .
The system has the following four main characteristics: First, it is based on q-calculus, so it is closely connected with Physics and has practical research significance. Second, there are two types of derivatives (the Caputo and Riemann-Liouville fractional q-derivative) in the system, which is more in line with the complex conditions of the real world. Third, the unknown functions and in the system influence each other which can have better practical applications. Fourth, the nonlinear part, and , contain two derivative operators . Due to the complexity of the model, it is difficult to find the Green’s function and its upper and lower bounds. After that, we choose the mixed monotone operator method to get the existence and uniqueness of non-negative solution to our system. Compared with the monotone iterative method for the requirements of fixed initial values, mixed monotone operators do not need to prove complete continuity, and there are no restrictions for initial values, that is, the arbitrarily initial value works. Therefore, the mixed monotone method is more widely applicable.
This article is arranged as the following aspects: In Section 2, some fundamental definitions and lemmas are introduced. Moreover, some crucial results and their proofs are discussed. In Section 3, we set out the main conclusion: the existence and uniqueness results of non-negative solutions. At last, an example is given to illustrate our result.
2. Preliminaries
For the reader’s convenience, we list some important definitions of q-calculus. On the other hand, there are also basic notion and lemmas for the proof which will be used in the next section.
Let be a Banach space, partially ordered by a cone . In other words, if and only if . We use to represent the zero element of E. We consider a cone P to be normal if there exists a constant such that for all , implies ; on this condition M is called the normality constant of P. Giving , we denote by the set .
Definition 1
([33,34]). is said to be a mixed monotone operator of is increasing in x and decreasing in y, i.e., for , , implies that . Element is called a fixed point of A if .
Lemma 1
([35]). Let P a normal cone of a real Banach space E. Also, let be a mixed monotone operator. Assume that
there exists with such that ;
for any and , there exists such that .
Then operator A has a unique fixed point in . Moreover, for any initial , constructing successively the sequences
one has and as .
For and , define
The q-analogue of the power function is
Generally, if , there is
It is clearly that for and for .
The q-Gamma function is given by
then we have .
For , we have
especially,
The q-derivative of a function f is defined by
and the q-derivative of higher order by
The q-integral of a function f defined on the interval is given by
If and f is defined in the interval , then its integral from a to b is defined by
and similarly the q-integral of higher order is given by
Definition 2
([17]). Let and f be a real function defined on a certain interval . The Riemann-Liouville fractional q-integral of order α is defined by
Definition 3
([17]). The fractional q-derivative of the Riemann-Liouville type of order of a continuous and differential function f on the interval is given by
where l is the smallest integer greater than or equal to α.
Definition 4
([17]). Let , and the Caputo fractional q-derivatives of f be defined by
where l is the smallest integer greater than or equal to α.
Lemma 2
([36]). Let and be a continuous function defined on and its derivative exist. Then the following formulas hold:
Lemma 3
([36]). Let and p be a positive integer. Then the following equality holds:
Lemma 4
([36,37]). Let and . Then we have
where are some constants.
For convenience, we denote
The following assumptions are introduced for analysis:
- for and ;
- for ,
- where are defined by (4);
- is continuous ().
A corresponding linear differential system with BVP (1) and (2) is considered, and the expression of the corresponding Green’s functions are established.
Lemma 5.
Assume that – hold. For , the fractional differential system
with boundary conditions (2) has an integral representation
where
and for k = 1, 2,
Proof.
According to Lemma 3, the Equation (5) can be reduced to the following equivalent integral equations:
where are constants.
From , we obtain . By using Lemma 4, we get
Then from (3) we get
From the rest of the condition of (2), it can be obtained that
Further, we can reduce (10) to
where are introduced by (9). Then we can get
Moreover, we have
Combining (15) and (16), it can be seen that
where is defined by (4). According to (14) and (17), we can get
where and are introduced by (7). Similarly, we also have
where and are also given by (8).
This completes the proof of the lemma. □
Let
where and .
Lemma 6.
Assume that holds. Then the functions defined by (9) and defined by (20) for have the following properties:
Proof.
For , we can get
For , we have
For , we have
For , we have
This completes the proof of the lemma. □
For computational convenience, we introduce the following notations:
Lemma 7.
Assume that – hold. Then for , the functions , , and for defined by (7), (8), (18) and (19) satisfy the following results:
Proof.
Accordance with , Lemma 6 and the definition of , we have
where is defined by (21).
where and is defined by (23). Similarly, we get
where and are defined by (22) and (24).
According to , Lemma 6 and the definition of , we can obtain
where is defined by (27).
where and is defined by (27). Analogously, we get
where and are defined by (26) and (28).
This completes the proof of the lemma. □
Lemma 8
([38]). , where and .
3. Existence Results of Monotone Iterative Non-Negative Solutions
Let endowed with the norm
Let for , then is a Banach space. Define a cone . Let , it is obvious that K is a normal cone equipped with the following partial order:
For all , in view of Lemma 5, let be the operator defined by
where
Theorem 1.
Assume that
For , is increasing in and decreasing in for ;
such that
Then
, where ;
;
Proof.
By Lemma 7 we have
Regarding (30) and , we get . It is obvious that T is a mixed monotone operator, because for any with , considering , we acquire
From Lemma 8, we obtain , where .
In view of , we get
Consequently, from (31), we can see that and . Indeed
Let
where . Then, we obtain
Also, let
we have
As a result, according to (32) and (33), we can get . Further, it can be see that , which satisfies (A1) in Lemma 1.
For and , it can be obtain that
Thus, it is obvious that , which satisfies (A2) in Lemma 1.
From what has been discussed in and , according to Lemma 1, we obtain that BVP (1) and (2) has a unique non-negative solutions in . For any initial , there are two iterative sequences satisfying that , .
This completes the proof of the theorem. □
Remark 1.
Example 1.
For , consider the following fractional differential system:
with the coupled integral and discrete mixed boundary conditions:
In this model, we set
It is not difficult to find that are satisfy in Theorem 1. Further, for we have
So , which satisfy in Theorem 1. Then from Theorem 1, we can assert that BVP (34) and (35) has a unique non-negative solutions in , where .
4. Conclusions
The Q derivative has important applications in many fields, such as quantum physics, spectral analysis and dynamical systems, which make it as a powerful tool for solving physics problems mathematically. In the model studied in this paper, the equations and boundary conditions are universal, but it can be seen from Theorem 1 that utilizing the fixed point theorem for mixed monotone operators, it can be acquired that the conclusion of the existence and uniqueness of the solution only by two easily attainable constraints on the nonlinear term. One of the conditions is mixed monotonicity, and the other is to restrict its properties similar to the upper bound using another function. Compared with the monotone iterative method in [30], we prove the existence and uniqueness of non-negative solutions for more complex systems using more looser conditions.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization, Y.M., C.H., R.M. and H.P.; methodology, Y.M., C.H., R.M. and H.P.; validation, Y.M., C.H., R.M. and H.P.; visualization, Y.M., C.H., R.M. and H.P.; writing—original draft, Y.M., C.H., R.M. and H.P.; writing—review and editing, Y.M., C.H., R.M. and H.P. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
Funding
This research received no external funding.
Data Availability Statement
Not applicable.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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