Abstract
Special functions have been widely used in fractional calculus, particularly for addressing the symmetric behavior of the function. This paper provides improved delta Mittag–Leffler and exponential functions to establish new types of fractional difference operators in the setting of Riemann–Liouville and Liouville–Caputo. We give some properties of these discrete functions and use them as the kernel of the new fractional operators. In detail, we propose the construction of the new fractional sums and differences. We also find the Laplace transform of them. Finally, the relationship between the Riemann–Liouville and Liouville–Caputo operators are examined to verify the feasibility and effectiveness of the new fractional operators.
Keywords:
Mittag–Leffler function; Riemann–Liouville and Liouville–Caputo operators; CF and AB fractional operators MSC:
26A48; 39B62; 33B10; 39A12
1. Introduction
The discrete fractional operator theory in fractional calculus settings plays an important role in solving difference equations. Fractional difference models are a core issue in mathematical and numerical analysis. It is also widely applied in many fields, including dynamical systems, artificial intelligence, computer communication, compressed sensing and so on, e.g., see [1,2,3].
In particular, mathematical and physical models of continuous and discrete fractional calculus have become important tools for analyzing differential and difference equations [4,5,6,7]. However, many researchers have proposed and studied the existence and uniqueness of discrete fractional models in different systems [8,9,10,11,12].
Various fractional operators have been used worldwide to study mathematical models in the presence of continuous fractional differential equations, for example [13,14,15,16], and discrete fractional difference equations [17,18,19,20] for nabla and delta types in the sense of Riemann–Liouville (RL), Liouville–Caputo (LC), Caputo–Fabrizio (CF) and Attangana–Baleanu (AB) operators.
Discrete fractional calculus has several correlations with special functions. An important application of discrete fractional calculus in applied mathematics is proving new identities and relationships between special functions. Specifically, enormous efforts have been made to accurately calculate special functions, which can be challenging for researchers who model real-world problems in discrete times. A function with particularly strong ties to discrete fractional calculus is the discrete Mittag–Leffler (ML) function—see, e.g., [21,22,23,24,25]. Furthermore, different authors have developed the problem of discrete fractional calculus in the time scale to the time scale , see [26,27,28].
This study proposes discrete -CF and -AB fractional operators, including delta exponential and ML functions, in their kernels. The key contributions of the proposed research article are summarized as follows:
- A new delta exponential and ML function with some special cases are proposed in the context of -discrete fractional calculus.
- Some properties of the proposed delta ML functions have been addressed by utilizing Laplace transformations and sum/difference rules.
- The concept of the -CF and -AB fractional sums and differences are introduced based on the new delta exponential and Mittag–Leffler functions.
- In conclusion, some properties of the -CF and -AB fractional difference operators are provided based on the Laplace transformation on the left and right sides.
In addition, the article has the following sections: in Section 2, essential definitions in discrete fractional calculus and Laplace transformation with some of its properties are recalled. In Section 3, we formulate the new -ML functions; we divide this section into two subsections: -CF fractional operators in Section 3.1 and -AB fractional operators in Section 3.2. Finally, some discussions finish this article in Section 4.
2. Preliminaries
Let . Then, we consider the notations and , for . Furthermore, let such that , for some . From Definition 2.25 in [1], we recall the definition of fractional sums as follows:
where , and
whenever is well-defined for .
Lemma 1
(Theorem 2.50 in [1]). If v is defined on , then for , it can be expressed that
for .
Remark 1.
For each and , we have
- (i)
- .
- (ii)
- , for and .
Lemma 2
([26,27]). Let . Then, for , we have
The following definitions are given in [26].
Definition 1.
For the function v defined on and , the h-RL fractional difference on the left side is defined by
and on the right side by
where .
Definition 2.
For a function v defined on , the h-LC fractional difference on the left side is defined by
and on the right side by
where .
The operator of is defined by
and was used in [29,30] to obtain the right sides of fractional sum and difference operators by knowing the left sides of these operators without conducting their proofs.
Lemma 3
([26]). Let and v be defined on . Then,
- (i)
- .
- (ii)
- .
- (iii)
- .
According to Theorem 2.2 in the monograph [1] and Definition 14 in [26], we can introduce the following definition of the -Laplace transformation.
Definition 3.
For the function v defined on , the -Laplace transformation of v is defined by
where is defined later in Section 3.1.
Definition 4.
The -convolution of two functions v and g defined on is given by
Furthermore, the Laplace convolution of these functions can be expressed by
for and .
Lemma 4.
For v on , we have
Lemma 5
([1]). Let v and . Then, for , it can be expressed that
where .
Lemma 6
([1]). Let and and be two functions of exponential order . Then, for , it can be expressed that
and
3. Delta ML Functions and Related Operators
In this part of our article, we state the delta -ML function and derive the CF and AB fractional differences and sums including delta -ML function in their kernel.
Definition 5.
For any complex numbers with and , we express the delta -ML function as follows:
From (7), the following special cases can be observed:
For the main concepts about the discrete Mittag–Liffler functions and their properties, we refer the reader to [21,22,23,24,25,26,27].
Remark 2.
One of the motivations make us to work on is that a smaller allows us to use a larger interval of λ. For example, if , we need to guarantee convergence as . However, as , we can attain that the series will be convergent for .
3.1. Delta Fractional Differences with Exponential Kernels
Let us denote the exponential kernel by
where with . In addition, for , it follows that
Definition 6.
For and with v defined on in the left case and in the right case. Let be the normalization, as defined in [26]. Then, we define the following:
- (a)
- The -CF of Liouville–Caputo type on the left side byfor .
- (b)
- The -CF of Liouville–Caputo type on the right side byfor .
- (c)
- The -CF of Riemann–Liouville type on the left side byfor .
- (d)
- The -CF of Riemann–Liouville type on the right side as follows:for .
Remark 3.
Considering the above definition, we can note the following:
- (i)
- As , we have
- (ii)
- As , we have
Remark 4.
The expression of can be applied to the above operators to have
- (i)
- ,
- (ii)
- .
Consider the difference equation
or, equivalently,
By applying on both sides of (15) and considering (4), Lemma 4 and
we obtain
where and . This leads to
Apply on both sides to reach
This helps us introduce the following CF fractional definitions as follows:
Definition 7.
For and v defined on , we express the -CF fractional sum in the left side case by
and in the right side case by
It can be easily shown that . Furthermore, we have .
Conversely, consider the difference equation
Applying on both sides to obtain
leads to
It follows that
By the same method, or by applying the operator of , we can show that
It is always of interest to make a connection between -CF fractional differences of RL and LC types. For this reason, the following theorem will be raised.
Theorem 1.
For the function v on , we have the following relationships:
- (i)
- ,
- (ii)
- .
3.2. Delta Fractional Differences with ML Kernels
This subsection is dedicated to introduce the -AB fractional differences and sums, and some of their properties. We start by introducing the -AB fractional difference operators.
Definition 8.
For the function v on and with , we express the -AB fractional difference of Liouville–Caputo type on the left side by
and of Riemann–Liouville type on the left side by
Definition 9.
For the function v on and with , we express the -AB fractional difference of Liouville–Caputo type on the right side by
and of Riemann–Liouville type on the right side by
To find the Laplace of , we need the following lemma on -ML functions.
Lemma 7.
For , we have
provided that .
Proof.
From Definitions 3 and 5, and making use of Lemmas 6 and 7, we see that
This will be convergent if . Therefore, by the test of geometric series, we obtain
which completes the proof. □
Lemma 8.
For each , it can be
where .
Proof.
In association to , we can formulate the -AB fractional sum by considering the difference equation
To solve (25), we can apply on both sides and apply (22) and Lemma 7 to obtain
From this, we conclude that
Then, we apply and use Lemma 8 to deduce that
Conversely, if we solve , we find out that .
Depending on (27), we can define the -AB fractional sums on the left and right sides as follows.
Definition 10.
Let and . We express the -AB fractional sum on the left side by
and on the right side by
It is worth noting that . In addition, by considering the operator of , it can be proved that .
In the last stage of this section, it is worth making a connection between -AB fractional differences of RL and LC types. For this reason, we have the following example.
Example 1.
Remark 5.
The application of our theoretical results could not be prepared easily in a simple example, which is why we have not prepared any application in this paper. For this reason, we refer the reader to see the recently accepted paper [31], in which the application of our new findings has been examined in the context of monotonic analysis.
4. Conclusions
This work emphasizes the development of novel special functions named as delta -exponential and -ML functions to address the -CF and -AB fractional difference operators including these functions in their kernels. We aim to reconstruct discrete fractional operators in the delta background sense. Afterwards, Laplace transformation is performed on the -CF and -AB fractional difference operators to obtain their corresponding -CF and -AB fractional sum operators. Relationships between the RL and LC cases are considered for the -CF and -AB fractional difference operators.
It can be noted that there may be some limitations in our study. This study only introduces one variate delta Mittag–Leffler function. Bivariate discrete Mittag–Leffler functions [32], higher-order differential equations [33] and monotonicity analysis are also needed to generalize the above new operators and address future work.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization, J.L.G.G.; Data curation, I.S.I.; Funding acquisition, M.V.-C.; Investigation, P.O.M.; Methodology, M.A.Y.; Project administration, J.L.G.G.; Resources, M.V.-C.; Software, I.S.I.; Supervision, N.C.; Visualization, N.C.; Writing—review and editing, P.O.M. and M.A.Y. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
Funding
This research received no external funding.
Data Availability Statement
Data are contained within the article.
Acknowledgments
Researchers Supporting Project number (RSP2024R153), King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
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