Abstract
In this paper, we study a third-order differential inclusion with three-point boundary conditions. We prove the existence of a solution under convexity conditions on the multi-valued right-hand side; the proof is based on a nonlinear alternative of Leray-Schauder type. We also study the compactness of the set of solutions and establish some Filippov’s- type results for this problem.
1. Introduction
Various aspects of the theory of third-order differential inclusions with boundary conditions attract the attention of many researchers (e.g., [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]).
In the present paper we study third-order differential inclusions of the form
with boundary conditions of the form:
where , , and are constants in a multi-valued map, and is the family of all subsets of .
This paper is a continuation of the work in [11], where the authors discussed the existence of solutions of the problem (1)–(2) when the multi-valued map F is nonconvex and lower semi-continuous.
The aim of our present paper is to provide some existence results for the problem (1)–(2) under assumptions of convexity and upper semi-continuity of the right-hand side. To this end, we use a nonlinear alternative of Leray-Shauder type, some hypothesis of Carathéodory type, and some facts of the selection theory. More exactly, we discuss the existence of solutions for the problem (1)–(2) when F is convex and upper semi-continuous and satisfies a Carathéodory condition. We also prove that the set of solutions is compact, and we end our results by presenting a Filippov’s-type result concerning the existence of solutions to the considered problem. An illustrative example of a boundary value problem satisfying the mentioned conditions is also given.
The paper is divided into three sections. In the second section, we give some necessary background material. In Section 3, we prove our main results.
2. Preliminaries
In this section we introduce some notations, definitions, and preliminary facts which will be used in the remainder of the paper. Let denote the Banach space of all continuous functions from into , equipped with the norm
We also denote the Banach space of measurable functions which are Lebesgue integrable by , normed by
By we denote the space of times differentiable functions , whose derivative, is absolutely continuous.
Let be a metric space induced from a normed space . Denote , , , , and .
Consider given by
where and . Then, is a metric space and is a generalized metric space (see [12]).
Let E be a separable Banach space, Y a nonempty closed subset of E and a multi-valued map. G is said to be upper semi-continuous at the point if for every open such that there exists a neighborhood of such that . We say that G has a fixed point if there is such that G is also said to be completely continuous if G is relatively compact for every If the multi-valued map G is completely continuous with nonempty compact values, then G is upper semi-continuous if and only if G has a closed graph; that is, imply that
For more details on the multi-valued maps, see the books of Aubin and Cellina [13], Aubin and Frankowska [14], Deimling [15], Gorniewicz [16], and Hu and Papageorgiou [17].
We recall here some definitions and Lemmas needed below.
Definition 1.
for all and for a.e. .
A multi-valued map is said to be Carathéodory if
- (1)
- is measurable for each ,
- (2)
- is upper semi-continuous for almost all and further a Carathéodory function F is called Carathéodory if
- (3)
- for each , there exists , such that
For each , define the set of selections of F by
Lemma 1
([18]). Let E be a Banach space, let be a Carathéodory multi-valued map, and let Θ be a linear continuous mapping from to . Then, the operator
is a closed graph operator in
Lemma 2
(See [16], Theorem 19.7). Let X be a separable metric space and G a multi-valued map with nonempty closed values. Then, G has a measurable selection.
Lemma 3
([19]). Assume , then for the problem
where α, β, and η are constants with , , has a unique solution
3. Main Results
3.1. Existence of Solutions
Before giving some results on the existence of solutions for the problem (1) and (2), let us introduce the following hypotheses which are assumed hereafter:
- is Carathéodory,
- there exists a function such that
Theorem 1.
Assume that hold, then the boundary value problem and has at least one solution on
Proof.
Define the operator by
for , we will show that T satisfies the assumptions of the nonlinear alternative of Leray-Schauder type. The proof consists of several steps.
Step 1: Let us begin by proving that T is convex for each .
Let . Then, there exist such that for each , we have
Let . So, for each , we have
Since is convex, it follows that
Step 2: In this step, we prove that T maps bounded sets into bounded sets in .
For a positive number r, let be a bounded ball in So, for each , there exists such that
So,
Step 3: Here we verify that T maps bounded sets into equicontinuous sets of .
Let with and be a bounded set of . So, for each , we obtain
Obviously, the right-hand side of the above inequality tends to zero independently from as . As T satisfies the above three assumptions, it follows by Ascoli–Arzela’s theorem that is completely continuous.
Step 4: In this step we prove that T has a closed graph.
Let , and . Then, we need to show that .
Associated with , there exists such that for each ,
So, we have to show that there exists such that for each ,
Let us consider the continuous linear operator given by
Observe that
then as
So, it follows from Lemma 1 that is a closed graph operator.
Further, we have . Since , therefore,
for some .
Step 5: We end our proof by discussing an a priori bounds on solutions.
Let u be a solution of and . So, there exists w∈ with such that for , we have
In view of , for each , we obtain
Let us set
Note that the operator is upper semi-continuous and completely continuous. From the choice of U, there is no such that for some .
Consequently, by the nonlinear alternative of Leray-Schauder type (see [20]), we deduce that T has a fixed point which is a solution of the problem (1) and (2). This completes the proof. ☐
Example 1.
Consider the boundary value problem given by
where . and
For , we have
Applying Theorem 1, we get that F is a Carathéodory multi-valued map and there exists a function for each where By a simple calculus we get Then, the boundary value problem and has at least one solution on
3.2. Compactness of the Set of Solutions
Theorem 2.
Under Assumptions , the set of solutions to Problem and is not empty, and it is compact.
Proof.
Let S solutions of the problem and From Theorem 1, . Now, we prove that S is compact.
Let , then there exist such that
From , we can prove that there exists an such that
As in Theorem 1, we can show by using that the set is equicontinuous in hence, by Arzela-Ascoli’s theorem we can conclude that there exists a subsequence such that converges to some u in . We shall now prove that there exists such that
Additionally, as is upper semi-continuous, then for every , there exists such that for every we have
Since has compact values, there exists a subsequence such that
and
It is clear that
By Lebesgue’s dominated convergence theorem, we conclude that
Thus,
Then, ☐
3.3. Filippov’s Theorem
Now, we present a Filippov’s result for the problem (1) and (2). Let be a solution of the following problem:
We will consider the following two assumptions:
The function is such that
- for all , the map is measurable,
- the map is integrable.
There exists a function such that, for a.e.
Theorem 3.
Assume that the conditions and hold. If
then the problem and has at least one solution v satisfying, for a.e. , the estimates
where
Proof.
Let and for a.e. , i.e. Then, by Lemma 3
Let be given by . The multi-valued map is measurable (see Proposition III.4 in [12]), so there exists a function which is a measurable selection for .
Let
Then, we have
So, we obtain
In the same way, the multi-valued map is measurable with nonempty closed values (see [12,16,19]). By Lemma 2 (Kuratowski–Ryll–Nardzewski selection theorem), there exists a function which is a mesurable selection of .
Let the function
Then
Hence
As above, the multi-valued map is measurable, so there exists a measurable selection of . Consider the function
Then
Hence
Repeating the process for we arrive at the following bound:
Suppose that holds for some n, now it is left to check for . The multi-valued map is measurable (see Proposition III.4 in [8]); then, there exists a function , which is a measurable selection for .
We consider
Then
Since we deduce that is a Cauchy sequence in converging uniformly to a function v From the definition of
Hence, for almost every , the sequence is Cauchy in , then converges almost everywhere to a measurable function in .
Moreover, since and by using the least inequality, we get
where
Then, for all ,
By , we deduce that converges to g in Consequently,
is a solution for the problem and with conditions . Then, .
Finally, we prove that the solution verifies the estimate:
As n, we conclude that
☐
Author Contributions
Ali rezaiguia and Smail kelaiaia contributed together to this work.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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