Abstract
This paper is devoted to studying the existence and uniqueness of a system of coupled fractional differential equations involving a Riemann–Liouville derivative in the Cartesian product of fractional Sobolev spaces . Our strategy is to endow the space with a vector-valued norm and apply the Perov fixed point theorem. An example is given to show the usefulness of our main results.
1. Introduction
The beauty of fractional calculus lies in finding the derivative and integration of an operator for any order. Therefore, fractional derivatives became helpful in studying the anomalous behavior of dynamical systems in biology, viscoelasticity, bioengineering, electrochemistry, etc. [1,2,3,4]. So, the subject of fractional calculus has become the center of attractive research.
The origins of fractional calculus go back to the end of the 17th century, starting from the discussion between Leibniz and de l’Hôpital regarding the meaning of [5]. Moreover, several investigations have been introduced to develop and study this important mathematical field, including Liouville, Riemann, Abel, Riesz, Weyl, Hadamard, and Caputo.
To ensure a solution of some nonlinear problems, researchers utilize some suitable fixed point theorems. One of these theorems is the Banach contraction principle. Perov, in 1965, extended the Banach contraction principle to the vector-valued metric spaces by replacing the contraction factor with a matrix that converges to zero [6]. Perov’s fixed point theorem is one of the crucial methods to prove an existence solution of systems of differential equations, fractional differential equations, and integral equations in N variables; see [7,8,9,10], and the references cited therein.
Recently, a number of interesting papers [11,12,13] on the solvability of mathematical problems in Sobolev spaces [14] with the help of fixed point theory have been presented. In [15], the authors utilized the Riemann–Liouville derivative to introduce the left fractional Sobolev spaces , where , , and .
Boucenna et al. [16] proved the existence of the solution for the following initial value problem:
in the fractional Sobolev space where is the Riemann–Liouville fractional derivative of order , , is the Riemann–Liouville fractional integral, and f satisfies some certain conditions.
Our work is devoted to studying the existence and the uniqueness of a coupled system of fractional differential equations of the form:
in the generalized Banach space where , and for each , is the Riemann–Liouville fractional derivative of order and .
We organize our paper as follows. In Section 2, we present the essential definitions and background that will be used in the rest of our paper. In Section 3, we use the Perov fixed point theorem to establish the existence and uniqueness of a solution of problem (1). In the last section, we give an example to show the applicability of our main result.
2. Preliminaries
In this section, we introduce some notations, definitions, and auxiliary results that will be used later. We begin with the following basic definitions of fractional calculus.
Definition 1.
The Riemann–Liouville fractional integral [17] of order γ for a function is defined as
where
Definition 2.
The Riemann–Liouville fractional derivative of order γ of a function f is given by
where and denotes the integer part of γ [17,18].
Definition 3.
The Mittag-Leffler function is defined by [17,19]
.
The following assertion shows that fractional differentiation is an operation inverse to the fractional integration from the left.
Lemma 1.
If , then the following equality
holds almost everywhere on [18,19].
Lemma 2.
Let [20]. Then,
On , we define a partial order relation as follows: Let , , and
. Put and
. Then,
Definition 4.
Let be a vector space on . By a generalized norm on , we mean a map
satisfying the following properties:
- (i)
- For all ; if , then ,
- (ii)
- for all and , and
- (iii)
- for all
The pair is called a vector (generalized) normed space. Furthermore, is called a generalized Banach space (in short, GBS), if the vector metric space generated by its vector metric is complete.
Remark 1.
In the sense of Perov, the definitions of convergence sequence, continuity, and open and closed subsets in a GBS are similar to those for usual Banach spaces [21].
Let be a generalized Banach space. For , and , we define the open ball and the closed ball centered at as follows:
and
If , then we simply denote and .
Definition 5.
Let be a GBS and let be a subset of . Then, is said to be G-bounded, if there exists a vector such that
Definition 6.
A matrix is said to be convergent to zero if
Lemma 3.
Let . Then, the following affirmations are equivalent [22]:
- (i)
- The matrix M converges to zero.
- (ii)
- The matrix is invertible, and .
- (iii)
- The spectral radius is strictly less than 1.
Definition 7.
Let be a complete generalized metric space and let N be an operator from into itself. N is called G-Lipschitzian if there exists a square matrix M of non-negative numbers such that
If the matrix M converges to zero, then N is called an M-contraction.
The following result is due to Perov, which is a generalization of the Banach contraction principle.
Theorem 1.
Let be a complete generalized metric space and let be an M-contraction operator [6]. Then, N has a unique fixed point in
From [15], the left fractional Sobolev space of order is the set defined as follows:
endowed with the norm
Lemma 4.
is a generalized Banach space endowed with the generalized norm
3. Main Results
In this section, we study the existence and the uniqueness of a solution for a coupled system of fractional differential equations (1).
Lemma 5.
ϱ is a solution of System (1) if and only if it is a solution of the following problem:
where , , and
for each .
Proof.
For each , we have
Thus
Hence,
Reciprocally, by returning to (2), for each , , we find
Hence, by replacing with , we get
□
Lemma 6.
ϱ is a solution of System (2) if and only if it is a solution of the following fractional integral equation system:
Proof.
The proof of the above lemma can be found in [16]. □
In the rest of the paper, we assume the following hypotheses:
- The functions are integrable and there exists the matrix such thatand for each and for we have:
- For each , there is a positive number such that
Theorem 2.
Suppose that the assumptions and are satisfied. Then System (3) has a unique solution in if the matrix
converges to zero, and there is that fulfills
Proof.
We define the operator by
to see if each and are measurable for any
.
Step 1: First, we shall show that the mapping
is well defined. Using our hypotheses, for arbitrarily fixed , and , we obtain
Lemma 2 implies that
Additionally,
Then,
Thus,
This means that the operator N maps into itself. Keeping in mind that the vector r fulfills (5), we find that for all and ,
Due to (6), we derive that N is a mapping from into .
Step 2: Our claim here is to prove that the operator N is G-contractive. To this end, let Then, for each ,
so
On the other hand, for , we have
Then,
This means that the operator N is G-contractive, and thus Perov fixed point Theorem 1 ensures that System (7) has a unique solution. □
Example 1.
Consider the following initial value problem of a nonlinear coupled fractional derivative system defined on :
Then,
and
So, we have
Thus,
Hence, the equalities in (4) hold. Now, we simply check that
This matrix has two eigenvalues, Therefore, converges to zero. All the conditions in Theorem 2 are satisfied, so System (7) has a unique solution.
Author Contributions
Writing—original draft, N.L.; Investigation, A.B.; Validation, K.A.; Conceptualization, W.S.; Writing—review, T.A.M.S. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
Funding
This research was funded by Prince Sultan University through Theoretical and Applied Sciences Lab.
Institutional Review Board Statement
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Informed Consent Statement
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Data Availability Statement
Not applicable.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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