Abstract
This paper presents a new class of boundary value problems of integrodifferential fractional equations of different order equipped with coupled anti-periodic and nonlocal integral boundary conditions. We prove the existence and uniqueness criteria of the solutions by using the Leray-Schauder alternative and Banach contraction mapping principle. Examples are constructed for the illustration of our results.
1. Introduction
Fractional calculus has gained a rapid rise in popularity in the past few decades due to the nonlocal nature of the derivatives and integrals of fractional order [1]. As a matter of fact, this field incorporates the methods and concepts used to solve symmetrical differential equations with fractional derivatives. Thereby, it evolved in many theoretical and applications area. For application details in ecology, chaos and fractional dynamics, medical sciences, financial economics bio-engineering, immune system, etc., we refer the reader to the works [2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]. For more theoretical aspects of fractional calculus, we refer the reader to the monographs [10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18].
During this development, nonlinear Fractional Differential Equations (FDEs) equipped with different kinds of Boundary Conditions (BCs) such as multi-point, periodic, anti-periodic, nonlocal, and integral conditions have also been widely studied and investigated. Many new results of variety boundary value problems were given in [19,20,21,22,23,24,25]. At the same time, fractional differential system subjects with different kinds of BCs also received the attention of such systems in the mathematical models with engineering and physical phenomena [26,27,28,29,30,31].
Recently, fractional Integro-Differential Equations (IDEs) with nonlocal conditions are considered a useful mathematical tool for the description of various real materials, for instance, see [32,33], and references therein. By side, several researchers have applied classical fixed point theorems to prove the existence and uniqueness results for such boundary value problems [19,31,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42].
In addition, the authors in [43,44,45] investigated some coupled systems (CSs) of mixed-order FDEs with different kinds of BCs. To enrich the topic, we introduce and investigate a CS of fractional IDEs of Caputo type with different derivatives orders given by
supplemented with coupled anti-periodic and nonlocal integral BCs:
where denotes the Caputo fractional differential operator of order , denotes the Riemann-Liouville fractional integral of order such that are real constants with are given continuous functions and
For usefulness, we emphasize that the current study is novel, and contributes extensively to the existing results on the topic. Furthermore, new results follow as special cases of the present work.
The structure of this paper is as follows. In Section 2, we give some important definitions of fractional calculus and establish an auxiliary lemma that helps to transform the system (1) into equivalent integral equations. In Section 3, the existence and uniqueness results for the given system (1) are derived. Two examples are also presented to illustrate the obtained outcomes.
2. Preliminary Material
First, we outline some main definitions of fractional calculus.
Definition 1
([11]). Let U be an integrable function on The Riemann-Liouville fractional integral of order for U is given by
where is the Euler Gamma function.
Definition 2
([11]). The Caputo derivative for a function of order existing on , is given by
Lemma 1
([11]). The solution of the equation is
with Moreover,
Next, we introduce an important lemma related to our new results.
Lemma 2.
Proof.
Using Lemma 1 and applying the integral operators on both sides of the equations in (3), we get the general solution that can be written as
with are unknown arbitrary constants.
Using the conditions (2) in Equations (8)–(11), we obtain a system of equations in given by
where are defined by
Solving the system (12) for , we get that
where is given by (7). Inserting the values of in (8) and (9) together with notations (6), we get (4) and (5). The converse follows by direct computation. This completes the proof. □
3. Existence and Uniqueness Results
Let be a Banach space endowed with the norm
Obviously the product space is also a Banach space with norm for .
In view of Lemma 2, we define an operator as
where
where are given by (6). For brevity, we use the subsequent notations.
where .
3.1. Existence Result via Leray-Schauder Alternative
Lemma 3
([46]). (Leray-Schauder alternative) Let be a completely continuous operator. Let Then either the set is unbounded or has at least one fixed point.
Theorem 1.
Assume the following assumption holds
- are continuous functions and there exist real constants and such that, for all and ,
Proof.
First, we demonstrate that the operator is completely continuous. By continuity of the functions and it follows that the operators and are continuous. In consequence, the operator is continuous. Let be a bounded set. Then there exist positive constants such that:
Then, for any we have
taking the norm for and using the notations (17)–(20) yields
Similarly, we have
From above inequalities (26) and (27), we deduce that and are uniformly bounded, which implies that
Hence the operator is uniformly bounded.
Next, we prove that is equicontinuous. Let with Then we get
which imply that independent of In a similar way, we get
as . Thus is equicontinuous. Therefore, by Arzela-Ascoli’s theorem, it follows that is compact (completely continuous).
Finally, we ought to prove that is bounded. Let Then For every we have
Using in (1), we get
which implies that
Similarly, we get
From inequalities (29) and (30), we have
with The inequality (31) shows that is bounded. Hence, has at least one fixed point according to Lemma 3. Thus, there is at least one solution on for the CS (1) and (2). □
3.2. Uniqueness Result via Banach’s Fixed Point Theorem
Theorem 2.
Assume the following assumption holds
- are continuous functions and there exist positive constants such that we have
Proof.
Define and such that
Firstly, we show that where
For and by the assumption , we have
In the same manner, we can get,
Therefore, we have
In consequence, we get
Likewise, we can find that
and consequently, we get
which implies that
Next, we show that the operator is a contraction. For that, let Then we have
By applying , we have
Similarly, we find
It follows from (39) and (40) that
The inequalities (38) and (41) shows that is a contraction. Due to the Banach fixed point theorem, the operator has a unique fixed point that corresponds to the unique solution of the system (1) and (2) on . □
4. Conclusions
In this work, we have successfully proved the existence and uniqueness results for a CS of nonlinear fractional IDEs of different orders type Caputo complemented with coupled anti-periodic and nonlocal integral BCs by using the Leray Schauder alternative and Banach fixed point theorem. As a special case, if we take consequently, our outcomes correspond to the solutions of the form:
and the values of given by (17)–(22) takes the following form in this situations:
In addition, the methods presented in this study can be utilized to solve the system of FDEs type Riemann-Liouville with the BCs (2).
The simulation results of such an equation are the goal of a numerical study which could be interesting for future work.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization, Y.A. and S.A.; writing—original draft preparation, Y.A. and S.A.; validation, L.A. and N.A.; investigation, L.A. and N.A.; writing—review and editing, A.B.M. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
Funding
Taif University Researchers Supporting Project number (TURSP-2020/218), Taif University, Taif, Saudi Arabia.
Data Availability Statement
Not applicable.
Acknowledgments
The second author thanks Taif University Researchers Supporting Program (Project number: TURSP-2020/218), Taif University, Saudi Arabia for technical and financial support.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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