Abstract
In this study, we present generalized multi-quadratic mappings (GM-QMs) which differ from earlier ones that were previously available in the literature. We then express these mappings (specified by a system of generalized quadratic functional equations (GQFEs)) in a single equation. The fixed-point (FP) methodology and the direct approach (Hyers) method are also used to generate a number of stability findings for a system of generalized FEs in the setting of fuzzy norm spaces (FNSs). In terms of the results obtained by the aforementioned methods, we find that in comparison to the direct method, the FP tool provides a more accurate estimate of GM-QMs while requiring fewer conditions for the proofs.
MSC:
39B52; 39B72; 39B82; 46S40
1. Introduction
A fuzzy concept, after the definition of fuzzy sets, was previously proposed by Zadeh [1]; fuzzy norms on linear spaces were first defined in [2]. In fact, Katsaras (1984), in [2], and Wu and Fang, in [3], developed and expanded the foundational structure of fuzzy normed spaces (FNSs). Their efforts included generalizations such as adapting the Kolmogorov norm and introducing fuzzy topological vector spaces. Moreover, Biswas, in [4], built a notion of fuzzy inner-product spaces within a linear-space framework. Over time, numerous scholars and researchers have conducted and explored fuzzy norms from diverse mathematical perspectives [5,6,7,8]. Cheng and Mordeson [9] contributed further by formalizing a definition of a fuzzy norm over a vector space. The formulation was structured so that the resulting fuzzy metric conformed to that of Kramosil and Michalek in [10]; Bag and Samanta, in [5], refined this definition and examined various properties associated with FNSs [11].
One of the challenging problems which has a special importance in nonlinear analysis and approximation theory is the stability of FEs; many authors are working on this problem nowadays. Stability theory was pioneered by Ulam [12], concerning the query stability of homomorphisms on groups. Hyers [13] addressed the mentioned problem for more groups, assuming that Banach spaces were the groups and that homomorphisms were the linear mappings. Let us recall that the stability of an FE is a comparison of an approximate solution with an exact solution. After that, this theory for FEs and mappings was extended on miscellaneous spaces, as can be found in many articles and books [14,15,16]. Additionally, the following studies examined the Hyers–Ulam–Rassias stability (H-U-R-Stab) of the different FEs in FNSs: Jensen FE fuzzy stability [17], Jensen FE fuzzy stability [18], fuzzy stability of the cubic mappings [19], fuzzy approximately additive functions in FNs [20], H-U-R-Stab of Jensen’s FE on fuzzy norm linear spaces [21], stability of an additive-quadratic FE with a parameter in matrix intuitionistic FNSs [22], and see [23]. Recently, the H-U-R-Stab of a Cauchy–Jensen additive FE was proved in fuzzy Banach spaces (FBSs) [24].
Let us note that Skof [25] first introduced and studied the quadratic functional equation (QFE):
Here, we recall that the primary tool for characterizing inner-product spaces is Equation (1). This is due to the fact that the parallelogram equality
is valid for a square norm on an inner-product space, where ; for further details, see [26].
For a set , is denoted by throughout. Let with and be a commutative group and V be a linear space. A multiple-variable mapping is said to be multi-quadratic (M-QM) if for each ,
In the following, . Regarding the stability of M-QMs, it was explored by C.-G. Park for the first time in [27], as follows.
Theorem 1.
Suppose represents norm spaces for and is supplied as a Banach space with . Then, the mapping has a function such that
and
for all , where , whereas
Assume that if for any . Then, there exists a unique M-QM such that
for all , where and .
After that, Ciepliński [28] presented the stability of M-QMs as pointwise, like Park’s result, as follows.
Theorem 2.
Let be a linear space and be a Banach non-Archimedean space on with characteristic . Also, assume that is a function such that for each
for all . If is a mapping satisfying
for all and
also, for any , , then for , there is a unique M-QM such that
for all .
Next, Zhao et al. [29] studied the structure of M-QMs and showed that is an M-QM if and only if
where with . We remember that they established H-U-R-Stab for M-QMs as pointwise. More information about the structures, characterizations, and the stability results for various M-QMs (which are quadratic in the upcoming list in each of variable) on miscellaneous spaces such as normed and non-Archimedean spaces are available as follows:
- M-QMs defined by the QFE with an involution [30].
- M-QMs by using the QFE , where with are fixed [31,32].
- M-QMs defined through the Euler–Lagrange QFE , where with are fixed [33].
- M-QMs defined via the QFE , where with is fixed [34].
- M-QMs by using the generalized quadratic functional equation, or briefly, GQFE:where , in which with [35]. The function gives a solution to the equations above.
According to (2), Bodaghi et al. [35] unified the system of QFEs which defines an M-QM and indeed found an equation as the necessary and sufficient condition for a mapping being an MQM. The benefit of the presentation of such systems as a single equation allows us to prove the H-U-R-Stab of the M-QMs by means of only one functional inequality, which was not achieved in [27,28,29].
In this paper, the description of generalized multi-quadratic mappings (GM-QMs) as a single equation was inspired by the GQFE (2). Furthermore, we prove the H-U-R-Stab of the GM-QMs by applying the direct (Hyers) and FP methods in the setting of FNSs. Note that the Hyers method for proving the stability involves finding the Cauchy sequences and their convergency, obtained via recurrence, not using a fixed-point theorem. Finally, we find that the FP method provides a more exact approximation of GM-QMs in comparison to the direct method.
2. Characterization of GM-QMs
In this section, we introduce the GM-QMs and specify their structures. For any , and , we write and , where is defined as a commutative group. Throughout the paper, are two linear spaces and set all mappings from into W, denoted by .
Definition 1.
A mapping is said to be a generalized n-quadratic mapping or ageneralized multi-quadratic mapping (GM-QM) if f satisfies (2) in each of its n arguments; that is,
where are fixed with and , , for all .
Obviously, the function given via is a GM-QM, where is fixed.
Denote , where , and consider satisfies the equation
where and
for .
Definition 2.
For , we propose the next hypotheses.
- (H1) Ψ has zero condition; that is, for any with at least one variable equal to zero.
- (H2) Ψ satisfies the quadratic condition if for any we havefor all , where is the fixed integers, with .
Clearly, if a has hypothesis (H2), then it has (H1) but not conversely. On the other hand, (H2) is a necessary condition for a mapping to be a GM-QM but not sufficient. We present the next example for correctness.
Example 1.
Fix . Define the function by for all . It is easily verified that the mapping Ψ satisfies (H2) but not a GM-QM even for , which means that Ψ does not fulfill (2). Furthermore, consider defined via for . Obviously, Φ fulfills (H1) but not (H2).
Theorem 3.
For , the following axioms are equivalent:
- (i)
- Ψ is a GM-QM;
- (ii)
Proof.
(i)⇒(ii) Fix and . By assumption, we have
and so
Putting in (3) and using (5), we obtain
The relation above necessitates that
which shows that satisfies (H2). We now prove that fulfills (4) by induction on m with . For , (2) gives us a validity of (4) for . Assume that (4) holds for . Then,
where . Equality (6) necessitates that
This implication is now finished.
(ii)⇒(i) Set
and
Putting for all in the left-hand side of (4) and applying our hypotheses, we obtain
Once more, setting for all in the right-hand side of (4), we obtain
where . We conclude from (7) and (8) that
This means that is a generalized quadratic in the variable j and therefore we obtain the desired result. □
For , we set
for all . Additionally, for with , is a subset of as follows:
where CardA is the cardinality of set A. From now on, for a GM-QM , we use the convention
3. Stability Results for Equation (10)
In the current section, we study the H-U-R-Stab of the GM-QMs in fuzzy norm spaces by the Hyers and FP methods. Note that when we say a GM-QM is stable, we mean that Equation (10) has the stability property.
Definition 3.
Let V be a real linear space. A function is termed a fuzzy norm on V if for all and all the following hold:
- (T1)
- for ;
- (T2)
- for all ;
- (T3)
- if ;
- (T4)
- ;
- (T5)
- is a non-decreasing function on and ;
- (T6)
- For , is upper semi-continuous on .
It is argued that the pair is an FNS. Now, we present the following known observations for an FNS . For every , a sequence in V converges to a if . In this instance, v is denoted by and is considered the limit of the sequence . Furthermore, if for every and every there exists a such that for all and all , we have , then a sequence in V is termed Cauchy. Like all normed spaces, the completeness of a fuzzy norm, being a fuzzy Banach space (FBS) of and continuity of , can be defined; for more details we refer to [11].
The next example, which converts a normed linear space to an FNS, was indicated in [36]. In continuation, we apply this example to attain more results.
Example 2.
Let be a normed linear space. For , the function
where . Then, is an FNS. In particular, if , then is sometimes called the standard fuzzy norm induced by norm .
In what follows, V is a linear space, is an FBS, and is an FNS. Moreover, we assume that each has the property (H1).
For a , we remark
for all , where is defined in (9) and is a fixed integer with and , .
3.1. Stability Results: Direct Method
In this subsection, the proof of the stability of (10) on FNSs is established by using the Hyers technique.
Theorem 4.
Let and be a function with the following property.
(H3) For all , for some real numbers α with
such that
for all and . Then, there exists a solution of (10) such that
for all , , where
whereas . Moreover, is a unique GM-QM provided that hypothesis (H2) is valid for it.
Proof.
Putting and into (11), we have
for all and , where
For the rest, we set by . The equivalent (14) and (15) necessitate
for all , and thus
for all and , where is given in (13). Putting by in (16) and applying the equality
we arrive at
for all , and . Furthermore, for each , we find
Take . Due to the equality , there is a such that . On the other hand, , and therefore there is some such that for all . It can now be deduced that
The relation above implies that is fuzzy Cauchy in . Since is a Banach fuzzy space, the mentioned sequence converges pointwise to a mapping ; that is,
Putting into (18), we obtain
for all and . The last inequality necessitates that
for all and . Consider the function , whose range is the set. Let . We have
and , where In addition, , defined as the member of the first and second unions on the right-hand side of the above inequality, goes to 1, and when is a member of the third union, (11) is greater than or equal to
which goes to 1 when . So,
for all and . Hence, gives (10). If now has (H2), then it is a GM-QM by Theorem 3. For the fuzzy difference between f and , by inequality (19), for and , this can be deduced as
Let be another GM-QM in such that inequality (24) is true for it. For each and , we reach
However, and are GM-QMs and so
for all , , and . Since , we have
The proof is now finished because it demonstrates that for all . □
The following theorem is analogous to the prior one. The assumptions are the same but the results are different. We provide a sketch of the proof because the methods are exactly the same as those of Theorem 4.
Theorem 5.
Let and be a function with hypothesis (H3) such that
for all and . Then, there exists a solution of (10) such that
for all and , where
In addition, is a unique GM-QM if it satisfies hypothesis (H2).
Proof.
Note that hypothesis (H3) for implies that , in which . The proof of Theorem 4 gives
for all and . A direct result from the inequality is as follows:
for all and , where is defined in (20). Interchanging into in (21) and applying the property , we obtain
for all , , and . Moreover, for , we obtain
Let . Since , there is a so that . Further, , and so for some , we find for all . These arguments imply that
Thus, the sequence is fuzzy Cauchy in . Due to the completeness of , this sequence converges pointwise to a such that
Putting into (22), we obtain
for all and . The last inequality shows that
for all and . The proof of being a solution of (10) and the uniqueness of can be a achieved in a standard fashion taken from the proof of Theorem 4. □
The upcoming examples can be deduced from Theorems 4 and 5.
Example 3.
Suppose V is a normed space, is an FBS, and is an FNS, where T and are both the standard fuzzy norm as considered in Example 2. Moreover, satisfies
for all , and , where is a fixed vector in Y. If , then by Theorems 4 and 5 there exists a solution of (10) such that
for all and . Additionally, is a unique GM-QM provided that it has property (H2).
From the definition of a GM-QM, consider a large number for n, then the right-hand side of inequality (23) goes to 1 and the fuzzy difference goes to zero. In the following example, the study of the Hyers stability of the GM-QMs gives some examples like the following example.
Example 4.
Given . Suppose that is a mapping satisfying
for all and , where is a fixed vector in Y. By Theorem 4, there exists a solution of (10) such that
for all and .
3.2. Stability Results: The FP Approach
We present the H-U-R-Stab of GM-QMs using an FP technique in this subsection. Prior to outlining the primary findings, it is important to remember that the range of the generalized metric (GM) d on a set X encompasses infinity, which is the only significant distinction between it and the metric on X. We present a fundamental result in FP theory in the following theorem, which serves our objectives. We note that [37] presented an extension of the result.
Theorem 6
([38]). Let be a complete GMS and be a mapping that is Lipschitz constant (the definition of which is available in the literature), . Then, for each element , we have the following assertions:
- for all ;
or
- there exists a such that the following hold:
- (1)
- for all ;
- (2)
- the sequence converges to an element of ;
- (3)
- is the unique fixed point of ;
- (4)
- for all .
Theorem 7.
Proof.
Consider the set
Let us define a mapping via
where, as usual, inf, for which , where is defined in (13). It is verified that is a GM on . Moreover, is a complete GMS; see ([39] Theorem 2.6) and ([18] Theorem 2.1). Define the mapping through
for all . Take , and , with . Then, , and so by the property (17), we have
for all and . Therefore, . This shows that . By the proof of Theorem 4, we obtain
for all and , where is defined in (13). Therefore, By Theorem 6, we find that the sequence is convergent in and its pointwise limit, namely, , is an FP of , and additionally . Moreover, we have , which implies that
for all . Furthermore, , which necessitates that
If is a decreasing sequence converging to , then
for all , , and . From this we conclude that
for all , , and . Since M is left continuous by (T6), we deduce that
for all , , and . Here, it can be proven like in Theorem 4 that is a solution of (10). In addition, the uniqueness of follows from the fact that is the unique FP of with the property that there exists such that
for all and . This completes the proof. □
The proof of Theorem 7 shows that for proving the uniqueness of the solution, we do not need the property (H2) for a , and this property is used only for being a GM-QM, and so the property (H2) is a redundant condition in Theorem 7.
The upcoming theorem is analogous to Theorem 7 in which we find a different approximation for GM-QEs in FBSs. Since the proof is similar, it is omitted.
Theorem 8.
Remark 1.
In view of the results in this section, we deduce that the FP method give us a more exact approximation in comparison to the direct method when used in Theorems 4 and 5. For the accuracy, we return to property (T5) of Definition 3, which states that is a non-decreasing function on and . In light of the obtained results in Theorems 4 and 7, we observe that is greater than and so the fuzzy difference in Theorem 7 is smaller.
4. Conclusions and Future Works
We have introduced generalized multi-quadratic mappings as a system of symmetric equations, which differs from earlier ones that were previously available in the literature and are quadratic in each component. We have expressed such mappings in a single equation. Note that the benefit of the presentation of such systems as a single equation is that it allows us to prove the H-U-R-Stab of the M-QMs by means of only one single functional inequality. We also used the fixed-point methodology and the direct approach (Hyers) method to generate a number of stability findings for a system of generalized quadratic functional equations in the setting of fuzzy norm spaces. Moreover, we compared the aforementioned methods and found two different results. Here, we demonstrate to the reader how to define the new multiple variable mappings by means of various FEs, to represent them as one single equation, and present an investigation of their varied stability in the setting of fuzzy norm spaces.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization: G.A. and A.B.; Methodology: G.A. and A.B.; Software: G.A. and A.B.; Validation: G.A. and A.B.; Formal analysis: G.A. and A.B.; Investigation: A.B.; Resources: A.B.; Data curation: G.A.; Writing—original draft preparation: A.B.; Writing—review and editing: G.A.; Visualization: G.A. and A.B.; Supervision: A.B.; Project administration: G.A. Funding acquisition: G.A. 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
The authors sincerely thank the anonymous reviewers for their careful reading and constructive comments that improved the manuscript substantially.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
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