Abstract
No previous study has involved uncertain fractional differential equation (FDE, for short) with jump. In this paper, we propose the uncertain FDEs with jump, which is driven by both an uncertain V-jump process and an uncertain canonical process. First of all, for the one-dimensional case, we give two types of uncertain FDEs with jump that are symmetric in terms of form. The next, for the multidimensional case, when the coefficients of the equations satisfy Lipschitz condition and linear growth condition, we establish an existence and uniqueness theorems of uncertain FDEs with jump of Riemann-Liouville type by Banach fixed point theorem. A symmetric proof in terms of form is suitable to the Caputo type. When the coefficients do not satisfy the Lipschitz condition and linear growth condition, we just prove an existence theorem of the Caputo type equation by Schauder fixed point theorem. In the end, we present an application about uncertain interest rate model.
1. Introduction
Wiener process is a type of stationary-independent increment stochastic process with normal random increments designed by Wiener in 1923 [1]. Then stochastic differential equation (SDE, for short) was proposed by Itô in 1951 as a vital tool to model stochastic dynamic systems [2]. Following that, many areas such as noted European option pricing model [3] by SDEs and famous stochastic epidemic dynamic model hidden in the observed data [4] were developed. As all we know, The SDEs based on probability theory need a large of available sample data. However, when we lack of data or the size of sample data applied in practice are less in many situations, we need to invite some domain experts to evaluate the belief degree that each event happens.
Human uncertainty with respect to belief degrees [5] can play an important role in addressing the issue of indeterminate phenomenon. For describing the evolution of uncertain phenomenon, the uncertain differential equation (UDE, for short) was first proposed by Liu [6]. Following that, Liu [7] also proposed the concept of stability of UDEs. Later, Chen and Liu [8] proved an existence and uniqueness theorem for an UDE and Yao et al. [9] proved some stability theorems. Besides, a large and growing body of literature [10,11,12,13,14] about stability theorems for UDEs have been investigated. Further, Yao and Chen [15] first proposed Euler’s method combined with 99-method to obtain the numerical solution of the UDEs. With the perfect of theory and maturity of numerical method of the UDEs, The UDEs have been successfully applied to many area such as optimal control theory [16,17], differential game theory [18,19], wave equation [20,21,22] and finance theory [23]. To understand developing process of the UDEs comprehensively, the readers can refer the book [24].
V-jumps uncertain processes proposed by Deng et al. [25] are often used to describe the evolution of uncertain phenomenon with jumps, in which the uncertain process may be caused a sudden change by emergency, such as economics crisis, outbreaks of infectious diseases, earthquake, war, etc. Here, It is needed to see that the cadlag functions [26] (right-continuous with left limits) are vital to deal with point process and related applications. The definition of V-jump uncertain process is as follows
Definition 1.
An uncertain process with respect to time k is said to be a V-jump process with parameters and for if
- (i)
- (ii)
- has stationary and independent increments,
- (iii)
- For any given every increment is a jump uncertain variable for , whose uncertainty distribution is
Deng et al. [27] proved an existence and uniqueness of solution to UDE with V-jump under Lipschitz condition and linear growth condition on the coefficients. The uncertain differential equation with V-jump is expressed as follows
where is an uncertain canonical process with respect to time k, is an uncertain V-jump process with respect to time k, and and are some given functions.
Uncertain differential equations with V-jumps are widely applied to uncertain optimal control with V-jumps. Some related references can be seen in [28,29,30,31,32,33]. For the phenomena of complex systems, fractional differential equations (FDEs) [34] are very suitable for characterizing materials and processes with memory and genetic properties. When considering the research of uncertain complex systems, we are eagerly looking forward to having a usable mathematical tool and basic principles to model these complex systems. To better describe the uncertain complex phenomena, Zhu [35] proposed two types of uncertain fractional differential equations in the one-dimensional case, which is the Riemann-Liouville type and Caputo type, respectively. In the same year, Zhu [36] proved the existence and uniqueness of two types of uncertain fractional differential equations in the multidimensional case. The expressions of these two types of equations are as follows
and
where and denote the Riemann-Liouville type and Caputo type fractional derivative of the function , respectively. is an uncertain canonical process with respect to time k, are given functions.
Based on the above uncertain FDEs, Lu et al. [37] further analyzed the solution of the uncertain linear FDE. Lu et al. [38] proposed the numerical methods for uncertain FDEs and compared some principles [39] for FDEs with the Caputo derivatives. Jin et al. [40] simulated the extreme values for solution to uncertain FDE and applied it to American stock model. To model discrete fractional calculus, Lu et al. [41] proposed uncertain fractional forward difference equations for Riemann-Liouville type. Furthermore, Lu et al. [42] investigated finite-time stability of uncertain FDEs. However, the uncertain FDEs with jump has not been studied so far. Inspired by Zhu [35,36] and Deng et al. [25,27], for describing the state of the uncertain fractional differential system with jumps more accurately, we propose uncertain FDEs with jump, which is very significant for the characterization of uncertain complex systems when meeting a sudden change by emergency.
The remainder of the paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, we recall some concepts of fractional order derivatives. Section 3 first gives two types of uncertain FDEs with jump in the one-dimensional case, then analyzes the multidimensional case, gives existence and uniqueness theorem of uncertain FDEs with jump by fixed point theorem, finally discuss an application about uncertain interest rate model. In Section 4, we give a brief conclusion.
2. Fractional Order Derivatives
We first recall two classes of fractional order derivatives in the one-dimensional case.
Definition 2.
[43] The fractional primitive of order of a function is defined by
where Γ is the gamma function satisfying
Remark 1.
[43] The properties of the gamma function are as follows:
Besides, the beta function satisfying
and . The relation between them is
Definition 3.
[43] For a function ϕ given on interval the pth Riemann-Liouville fractional order derivative of ϕ is defined by
where .
Define , where I is identity operator, it holds that
For a power function , it holds that
Definition 4.
[43] Let at least be a m order differentiable function. The pth Caputo fractional derivative of ϕ is defined by
where , and is the m-derivative of ϕ.
Remark 2.
[43] For and it holds that
Remark 3.
[43] For convenience, we use , and denote by , and , respectively. We next recall two classes of fractional order derivatives in the multidimensional case.
(a) The pth Riemann-Liouville fractional order derivative of the function is defined by
(b) The pth Caputo fractional order derivative of the function is defined by
where is the first-order derivative of .
Meanwhile, they have the following relationship
3. Main Results
3.1. Two Types of Uncertain FDEs with Jump in the One-Dimensional Case
Definition 5.
Let be a canonical process and be a V-jump process. Suppose that are three functions. Then
is called an uncertain FDE with jump of the Riemann-Liouville type. A solution of (1) with the initial condition
is an uncertain process such that
holds almost surely.
Definition 6.
Let be a canonical process and be a V-jump process. Suppose that are three functions. Then
is called an uncertain FDE of the Caputo type. A solution of (3) is an uncertain process such that
holds almost surely.
We will use the following classical Mittag-Leffler function [43]
Theorem 1.
Let and be two integrable uncertain processes.
(i) The uncertain FDE with jump
with the initial condition
has a solution
(ii) The uncertain FDE with jump
has a solution
Theorem 2.
Let a, b and e be three numbers, and .
(i) The uncertain FDE with jump
with the initial condition
has a solution
where is a normal uncertain variable
where is a jump uncertain variable
(ii) The uncertain FDE with jump
has a solution
where is a normal uncertain variable
where is a jump uncertain variable
Proof.
(i) It follows from Theorem (1) that
where is a normal uncertain variable, by Theorem 6.4 in [5], we have
where
where is a jump uncertain variable, by Lemma A3 in Appendix A, we have
where
(ii) The proof is similar to that of (i). □
Theorem 3.
Let a be a real number and two functions on . Then
with the initial condition
has a solution
Proof.
It is obvious that
For provided by (6), we have
It follows from Theorem 3 in Ref [35] and the Mittag-Leffler function that
In addition, we have
We let in (10), then
Hence,
Theorem 4.
Let a be a real number and two functions on . Then
has a solution
Proof.
The proof of Theorem 4 is similar to that of Theorem 3, we omit here. □
Remark 4.
In this part, we introduce the Riemann-Liouville type and the Caputo type of uncertain FDE with jump in the one-dimensional case. Now we state those concepts in a multidimensional case. In the next part, we will always assume Let be an l-dimensional canonical process and be an l-dimensional V-jump process.
3.2. Existence and Uniqueness of Uncertain FDEs with Jump in the Multidimensional Case
Definition 7.
Let be a canonical process and be a V-jump process. Suppose that , and are three functions. Then,
is called an uncertain FDE with jump of the Riemann-Liouville type. A solution of (16) with the initial condition
is an uncertain process such that
holds almost surely.
Definition 8.
Let be a canonical process and be a V-jump process. Suppose that , and are three functions. Then,
is called an uncertain FDE of the Caputo type. A solution of (18) is an uncertain process such that
holds almost surely.
For simplicity, we use to denote a norm in or . Let denote the space of continuous -valued functions on , which is a Banach space with the norm
Give three functions , and . Now we introduce the following mapping on : for
where is a given initial state.
Lemma 1.
For uncertain process the mapping Ψ defined by
is sample-continuous, where if , or if and and h satisfy the linear growth condition
where L is a positive constant.
Proof.
Actually, for and it holds that
by the linear growth condition. So, as In other words, is sample-continuous. □
Theorem 5.
Proof.
We here only give the proof for the uncertain FDE with jump (16). A symmetric proof in terms of form is suitable to the uncertain FDE with jump (18). Let be an arbitrarily given number, and let be a mapping defined by (20) on
Give . For assume such that . Define a mapping on for
where if , or if For It follows from Lemma 1 that .
Let , it holds that
Let We take a suitable such that In other words, is a contraction mapping on . Thus, by the classical Banach fixed point theorem, we can obtain a unique fixed point of in . And then, where
for any given
Suppose that are the subsets of with The above proof means that the mapping has a unique fixed point with on the interval for where we set Define on the interval by setting
It holds that is the unique fixed point of defined by (20) in Besides, where
for any given Because are uncertain vectors for It is obvious that is an uncertain vector by Theorem 3 in [36]. By the arbitrariness of , it holds that is the unique solution of uncertain FDE with jump (16). Furthermore, owing to is in so is sample-continuous. The proof is completed.
If the coefficients g and h do not satisfy the Lipschitz condition and linear growth condition, we will give the existence theorem just for continuous f, g and h as follows. □
Theorem 6.
(Existence) Let f(k,z), g(k,z) and h(k,z) be continuous in
Then, uncertain FDE of the Caputo type (18) has a solution in with the crisp initial condition
Proof.
For any let be a positive number such that
where is the Lipschitz constant of the canonical process , and Denote
where
It holds that Q is a closed convex set. Define a mapping on Q by
For we have
This means and the mapping is bounded uniformly in Besides, for it holds that
we can get a conclusion that is equicontinuous for in We know that is a compact mapping on Q by the Ascoli-Arzela theorem.
Let converge to as In other words, converges to uniformly in Hence,
uniformly in It is easy to see that that is continuous on
3.3. Application
In this subsection, we will discuss an application of the present study. We give an uncertain interest rate model that the short interest rate satisfies the following uncertain FDE with jump
where m, and are positive numbers. The above model is the FDE with jump form of the model in Ref [43]. Then, the price of a zero-coupon bond is
where E is the uncertain expected value [5], d is a maturity date.
Theorem 7.
Let be the crisp initial state Then
where , , is a normal uncertain variable
is a jump uncertain variable
Proof.
It holds that
It follows from Theorem 5 in Ref [35] that
and
where
Similarly, by Lemma A3 in Appendix A, we can obtain that
where . Hence, we can obtain that
where , , the proof is completed. □
4. Conclusions
The main goal of the current study is to prove existence and uniqueness for uncertain FDEs with jump. In addition, we give an application about uncertain interest rate model. Of course, the readers can further study more complex models by uncertain FDEs with jump, such as uncertain stock model and uncertain optimal control model. One source of weakness in our study is the lack of numerical methods, these will be the focus of our future research.
Author Contributions
All authors contributed equally and significantly in writing this article: writing—original draft preparation, Z.J., review, X.L. and C.L., investigation, Z.J., funding acquisition, X.L. and C.L. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Funding
National Natural Science Foundation of China (61374183, 51535005, 71561001), the Major Projects of North Minzu University (ZDZX201805).
Acknowledgments
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61374183, 51535005, 71561001), the Major Projects of North Minzu University (ZDZX201805).
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
Appendix A
Lemma A1.
[17] Suppose that is an l-dimensional canonical Liu process, and is an integrable -dimensional uncertain process on with respect to Then, the inequality
holds, where is the Lipschitz constant of the sample path with the norm .
Lemma A2.
Suppose that is an l-dimensional uncertain V-jump process, and is an integrable -dimensional uncertain process on with respect to Then, for any sample γ, the inequality
holds,
Proof.
For the multidimensional case, it is easy to obtain the result similar to Theorem 3.2 in [27]. □
Lemma A3.
Let be a V-jump process and let be an integrable and determinstic function with respect to time k. Then the uncertain integral
is a jump uncertain variables at each time s, i.e.,
Proof.
Because the V-jump process has stationary and independent increments and every increment is a V-jump uncertain variable, for any partition of closed interval [0,s] with it follows from Theorem 3.1 in [25] that
In other words, the sum is also a V-jump uncertain variable . Because f is an integrable function, it holds that
as the mesh , where the mesh is written as . Thus we obtain
□
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