Abstract
The study of small data Sobolev solutions to the Cauchy problem for weakly coupled systems of semi-linear fractional evolution equations with different power nonlinearities is of interest to us in this research. These solutions must exist globally (in time). We explain the relationships between the admissible range of exponents and symmetrically in our main modeland the regularity assumptions for the data by using estimates of Sobolev solutions to related linear models with a vanishing right-hand side and some fixed point argument. This allows us to prove the global (in time) existence of small data Sobolev solutions.
Keywords:
weakly coupled system; fractional equations; global in time existence; σ–evolution equations; small data solutions; loss of decay MSC:
35R11; 35A01
1. Introduction
Fractional derivatives are a generalization of the traditional integer-order derivatives, allowing for the differentiation of a function to a non-integer order. This extension of the classical derivative concept has proven to be a powerful mathematical tool with a wide range of applications. As a result, fractional calculus has found applications in diverse fields such as viscoelasticity, rheology, control theory, signal processing and anomalous diffusion models, providing a more accurate and flexible framework for analyzing complex dynamics—see, e.g., [1,2,3,4] to illustrate some applications.
The Riemann–Liouville fractional derivative is an important concept in the field of fractional calculus, which is defined by
with
where , is the fractional Riemann–Liouville integral of f in and is the Euler Gamma function defined by
For the classical Cauchy problem for the semi-linear wave equation,
The authors in [5] proved that for dimensions, the critical exponent p is defined as the positive root of the quadratic equation
In 2017, in [6], the authors considered a semi-linear fractional wave equation with a Riemann–Liouville fractional derivative. The equation has the form
where They determine the critical exponent for the global existence of small data solutions in low space dimensions. The Caputo fractional order and the existence of non-zero initial conditions were studied in [7].
In another related work [8], the authors proved the global existence of small data solutions for semi-linear fractional evolution equations with mass or power nonlinearities. They also considered in [9] a similar problem with a memory term instead of a power nonlinearity.
In [10], the authors proved non-existence theorems for evolution equations involving Caputo and Riemann–Liouville fractional derivatives. Additionally, they proved existence results for subdiffusive equations in that study. In [11,12], the authors studied the Cauchy-type problem for certain multi-term fractional partial differential equations involving Caputo derivatives. They provided asymptotic decay estimates for the solution and applied those results to studying global existence for the corresponding semilinear problem with a power nonlinearity of the form . Additionally, the authors presented a detailed review of the existing literature on fractional (in time) partial differential equations.
Since the fractional wave equation with the mentioned conditions plays the role of an interpolation between the heat equation and the wave equation, let us start by considering some previous results on weakly coupled systems of heat or wave equations. Considering the system of heat equations,
where and . In the paper by Escobedo et al. [13], it was shown that the exponents and satisfying the following equation are critical:
This means the following apply:
- For , the solutions exist globally.
- For , the solutions blow up.
For more information on the system of damped wave equations and semi-linear heat equations, the reader may consult the following references [14,15,16,17].
In [18,19,20], the authors considered weakly coupled systems of semilinear classical damped wave equations with power nonlinearities. Considering time-dependent dissipation terms, the authors in the works of Djaouti et al. [21,22,23] proved the global (in time) existence of small data solutions under certain conditions. These conditions describe the interplay between the exponents of the power nonlinearities. In the paper [24], the authors investigated a weakly coupled system where fractional derivatives are incorporated into the equations, considering special Cauchy data. In [24], the authors studied a weakly coupled system where the fractional derivative involves the equations with special Cauchy data.
The weakly coupled system of semi-linear fractional evolution equations with different power nonlinearities is the subject of this paper. We are interested in the global existence of small data solutions to the following Cauchy problem:
where , for , , ,
Our main results establish the global (in time) existence of small data Sobolev solutions. These are given in the next section.
2. Main Results
2.1. The Case
Theorem 1.
Let ; ; and . We assume that . Moreover, for all , the exponents and satisfy the conditions
and
where
Then, there exists a positive constant ε such that for any data
and with , we have a unique global (in time) Sobolev solution
to the Cauchy problem (2). Moreover, the solution satisfies the following decay estimate for any and for all sufficiently small :
where
Example 1.
If we take in Theorem 1, , , and . Then, the admissible range of global existence is
Theorem 2.
(Existence of loss of decay) Let ; ; and . We assume that . Moreover, for all , the exponents and satisfy the following conditions:
and
where
and
Then, there exists a positive constant ε such that for any data
and with , we have a unique global (in time) Sobolev solution
to the Cauchy problem (2). Moreover, the solution satisfies the following decay estimate for any and for all sufficiently small :
where
and
Example 2.
If we take in Theorem 2, , , , and . Then, the admissible range of global existence is
2.2. The Case
Theorem 3.
Let , , , and . We assume that . Moreover, for all , the exponents and satisfy the conditions
and
where
Then, there exists a positive constant ε such that for any data
and with , we have a unique global (in time) Sobolev solution
to the Cauchy problem (2). Moreover, the solution satisfies the following decay estimate for any and for all sufficiently small :
where
Example 3.
If we take in Theorem 3, , , and . Then, the admissible range of global existence is
Theorem 4.
(Existence of loss of decay) Let , , , and . We assume that . Moreover, for all , the exponents and satisfy the conditions
and
where
and
Then, there exists a positive constant ε such that for any data
and with , we have a unique global (in time) Sobolev solution
to the Cauchy problem (2). Moreover, the solution satisfies the following decay estimate for any and for all sufficiently small :
where
and
Example 4.
If we take in Theorem 4, , , and . Then, the admissible range of global existence is and .
2.3. The Case
In the next section, we suppose that .
Theorem 5.
Let , , , and . We assume that Moreover, for all , the exponents and satisfy the conditions
and
where
Then, there exists a positive constant ε such that for any data
and with , we have a unique global (in time) Sobolev solution
to the Cauchy problem (2). Moreover, the solution satisfies the following decay estimate for any and for all sufficiently small :
where
and
Example 5.
If we take in Theorem 5, , , , , , and . Then, the admissible range of global existence is and .
Theorem 6.
(Existence of loss of decay) Let ,, and . We assume that . Moreover, for all , the exponents and satisfy the conditions
and
where
and
Then, there exists a positive constant ε such that for any data
and with , we have a unique global (in time) Sobolev solution
to the Cauchy problem (2). Moreover, the solution satisfies the following decay estimate for any and for all sufficiently small :
where
Example 6.
If we take in Theorem 6, , , , , , and . Then, the admissible range of global existence is and .
The notation , which denotes the existence of a constant such that , is used in the sections that follow.
3. Some Preliminaries
Let us consider the single Cauchy problem
with , and . Under the data condition , it can be formally converted to an integral equation and its solution is given by
with
where denotes the semigroup of operators, which is defined via Fourier transform by
Here, denotes the Mittag-Leffler function (see [25]).
As noted in [8], is a representation of solutions of the linear Cauchy problem associated with (15) with a vanishing right-hand side. In [8], the authors proved the following results.
Proposition 1
(see [8]). Let , and . Then, the solution of the linear Cauchy problem
satisfies the following estimates:
where
Philosophy of the Approach and Proofs
The decay estimates for solutions to
will be used to show the global (in time) existence of small data Sobolev solutions to the weakly coupled systems (2). We write their solutions in the following form:
Proposition 2.
Let , and . Then, the solution of the linear Cauchy problem (21) satisfies the following estimates with or :
Applying Duhamel’s principle and some fixed point argument give the formal integral formulation of solutions to (2) as follows:
4. Proof of Main Results
Let us recall the lemma from [26] before presenting our proofs.
Lemma 1.
Suppose that and . Then, there exists a constant such that for all the following estimate holds:
4.1. Proof of Main Results fo the Case
4.1.1. Proof of Theorem 1
Let . For any , and if is sufficiently small, there exists a parameter such that
Let . We define the space as follows:
equipped with the norm
where
and the operator P by
To obtain the global (in time) existence and uniqueness of Sobolev solutions in , we can consider a global (in time) Sobolev solution to (2) as a fixed point of the operator P. We will prove that P satisfies, for any , , the next inequalities:
A global (in time) well-posedness result for small data Sobolev solutions is also obtained from the estimates (27) and (28).
By applying the definition of the norm in and Proposition 2, we may conclude
Hence, it is reasonable to show the following inequality to complete the proof of (27)
If , then by interpolation we derive for all
On the other hand, we have
for any q such that and due to .
Also,
for any q such that and due to . Thanks to (30), we have for the estimates
where
The right side of (31) is what we are interested in estimating. We apply Lemma 1 for this. We put
By applying Lemma 1, we obtain if we assume that . We notice that if and only if
On the other hand, the conditions and imply .
Hence,
Once more, we apply Lemma 1 to (32) to obtain
Hence,
Additionally, we have for
where
If , then .
Hence,
Also, the conditions and imply .
To prove (28), we assume that and are two vector functions belonging to . Then, we have
We have for
By using Hölder’s inequality, we obtain
By using the definition of the norm of the solution space we obtain for and the following estimates:
Hence, we obtain
By the same arguments, we obtain for and the following estimate:
Notice that
and
for all if and only if
and
It follows from (27) that for any T and small data, P maps into itself. The estimates (27) and (28) result in the existence of a single fixed point for by conventional contraction arguments. As a result, we obtain Sobolev solutions to (2) that are well-posed and satisfy the required decay estimates. Since all constants are independent of T, we establish a global (in time) existence result for small data Sobolev solutions to (2) by letting T tend to ∞. The proof is now complete.
4.1.2. Proof of Theorem 2
Let . We define the space as follows:
equipped with the norm
where
where and are defined as in the proof of Theorem 1. Finally, the operator P is defined by
We will prove that P satisfies, for any and , the next two inequalities
By applying the definition of the norm in and Proposition 2, we may conclude
Hence, it is reasonable to show the following inequality to complete the proof of (34)
If , then we derive for all
On the other hand, we have
for any q such that and due to .
Also,
for any q such that and due to . Thanks to (37), we have for the estimates
where
The right side of (38) is what we are interested in estimating. We apply Lemma 1 for this. We put
By applying Lemma 1, we obtain if we assume that . We notice that if and only if
On the other hand, the conditions and imply .
Hence,
Once more, we apply Lemma 1 to (39) to obtain
Hence,
Additionally, we have for
where
If
then .
Hence,
The condition
is equivalent to
and
Also, the conditions and imply .
4.2. Proof Main Results for the Case
4.2.1. Proof of Theorem 3
If , then for all and for all we obtain
Hence, we can choose a positive such that there does not exist any that satisfies (26). For this reason,
Let . We define the space as follows:
equipped with the norm
where
where . For any , the operator P
We will prove that P satisfies, for any and , the next two inequalities
By applying the definition of the norm in and Proposition 2, we may conclude
Hence, it is reasonable to show the following inequality to complete the proof of (42),
If , then we derive for all
On the other hand, we have
for any q such that and due to .
Also,
for any q such that and due to . Thanks to (45), we have for the estimates
where
The right side of (46) is what we are interested in estimating. We apply Lemma 1 for this. We put
By applying Lemma 1, we obtain if we assume that . We notice that if and only if
under the assumptions and .
On other hand, the conditions and imply .
Hence,
Once more, we apply Lemma 1 to (47) to obtain
Hence,
Additionally, we have for
where
If
then
Hence,
Also, the conditions and imply .
The proof is complete.
4.2.2. Proof of Theorem 4
Let . We define the space as follows:
equipped with the norm
where
where and .
For any , the operator P
We will prove that the operator P satisfies, for any and , the next two inequalities
By applying the definition of the norm in and Proposition 2, we may conclude
Hence, it is reasonable to show the following inequality to complete the proof of (49)
If , then we derive for all ,
On the other hand, we have
for any q such that and due to .
Also,
for any q such that and due to . Thanks to (52), we have for the estimates
where
The right side of (53) is what we are interested in estimating. We apply Lemma 1 for this. We put
By applying Lemma 1, we obtain if we assume that
We notice that if and only if
under the assumptions and .
On the other hand, the conditions and imply .
Hence,
Once more, we apply Lemma 1 to (54) to obtain
Hence,
Additionally, we have for
where
If
then
The condition (56) is equivalent to
and
Hence,
Also, the conditions and imply .
The proof is complete.
4.3. Proof Main Results for the Case
4.3.1. Proof of Theorem 5
For any and when is sufficiently small, there exists a parameter such that
If , then for all we obtain
Hence, we can choose a positive such that there does not exist any that satisfies (26). For this reason,
Let . We define the space as follows:
equipped with the norm
where
where and the operator P is defined by
We will prove that the operator P satisfies, for any and , the next two inequalities
The proof of (59) and (60) is similar to the proof in Theorems 1 and 3. This completes the proof.
4.3.2. Proofof Theorem 6
Let . We define the space as follows:
equipped with the norm
where
where . The operator P is defined by
We will prove that the operator P satisfies, for any and , the next two inequalities
If , then we derive for all
On the other hand, we have
for any q such that and due to .
Also,
for any q such that and due to . Thanks to (64), we have for the estimates
where
The right side of (65) is what we are interested in estimating. We apply Lemma 1 for this. We put
By applying Lemma 1, we obtain if we assume that . We notice that if and only if
under the assumptions and .
On other hand, the conditions and imply .
5. Conclusions
In this paper, we have proven the global (in time) existence of small data Sobolev solutions to the weakly coupled system of semi-linear fractional evolution equations with different nonlinearities. We proved the connection between the regularity assumptions for the data, the equation parameters and the allowable range of exponents in Equation (2). In an upcoming paper, we plan to investigate the blow-up results for (2).
Author Contributions
Writing—original draft, S.A.S. and A.M.D.; Writing—review and editing, A.K.M., M.K.M., A.A.-Q. and A.M.A.B.A. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
Funding
This work was supported by the Deanship of Scientific Research, Vice Presidency for Graduate Studies and Scientific Research, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia [Project No. GrantA531].
Data Availability Statement
Data are contained within the article.
Acknowledgments
The authors would like to thank the Deanship of Scientific Research, Vice Presidency for Graduate Studies and Scientific Research, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia for supporting this work.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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