Abstract
In this paper, we investigate the existence of mild solutions to a multi-term fractional integro-differential equation with random effects. Our results are mainly relied upon stochastic analysis, Mönch’s fixed point theorem combined with a random fixed point theorem with stochastic domain, measure of noncompactness and resolvent family theory. Under the condition that the nonlinear term is of Carathéodory type and satisfies some weakly compactness condition, we establish the existence of random mild solutions. A nontrivial example illustrating our main result is also given.
Keywords:
measure of noncompactness; random effect; random operator; Mönch’s fixed point theorem; multi-term fractional differential equation; Carathéodory condition; resolvent family theory MSC:
34A08; 34K30; 47G20; 60H25
1. Introduction
For more than three decades, fractional calculus has played an important role in the study of linear and nonlinear fractional integro-differential equations that arise from the modeling of nonlinear phenomena, optimal control of complex systems and other scientific research (see, e.g., [1,2]). Multi-term time-fractional differential systems have also attracted a great interest in recent years, see for instance [3,4,5,6] and references cited therein. As inherently deterministic extensions, random fractional differential equations exist in many applications and have been studied by many authors and more details from historical points of view and recent developments of such equations are reported to the monographs [7,8], papers [9,10,11], and the references cited therein. To be more precise, the existence results and qualitative properties for fractional differential equations with random effects are examined in [12,13] and references cited therein. Very recently, considerable attention has been given to multi-term time-fractional differential systems. For instance, Pardo and Lizama [6] studied the existence of mild solutions under Carathéodory type conditions by using measure of noncompactness techniques, Singh and Pandey [14] have established the existence and uniqueness of mild solutions for multi-term time-fractional differential systems with non-instantaneous impulses and finite delay by using Banach fixed point theorem whereas Chang and Ponce [15], with the help of the theory of fractional resolvent families, established the existence of mild solutions to a multi-term fractional differential equation. It may be noted here that the mentioned works are confined to deterministic systems. Inspired by the aforementioned papers [6,12,13,14], this work focuses on the existence of mild solution of problem (1) with multi-term time-fractional integro-differential equations with random effects in the form
for and , where the state takes values in a separable Banach space with norm , is a complete probability space, stand for the Caputo fractional derive of order , and , be given and is the infinitesimal generator of a bounded and strongly continuous cosine family. is a random nonlinear function to be specified later. The operator is a continuous operator satisfying
where and and are given random functions.
To the best of our knowledge, the study of the existence of mild solutions of multi-term time-fractional integro-differential equations with random effects by the abstract form (1) has not yet been treat in the literature. The main contributions of this paper are: Firstly, the study of existence of random multi-term time-fractional integro-differential equations of the form (1) via measure of noncompactness is an untreated topic in the literature. Secondly, the nonlinear term satisfies a weak compactness condition that does not require the compactness of the resolvent family and sufficient conditions for the existence of mild solutions where the solution operators are only equicontinuous, are established by means of Mönch fixed point theorem and a random fixed point theorem with stochastic domain via the noncompactness measure. At last, our theorems guarantee the effectiveness of existence results under some weakly compactness condition and the work can considered as a supplemented for the case that the corresponding -resolvent operator is compact and deterministic one. The results are established using of the -resolvent operators developed in [6].
This paper is organized as follows. Section 2 contains preliminary details. In Section 3, we show the existence of random mild solutions by Mönch’s fixed point theorem combined with a fixed point theorem with stochastic domain and -resolvent family. A nontrivial example illustrating our main result (Theorem 2; see below) is also given.
2. Preliminaries
In this section, we recall some basic concepts, notations, definitions, lemmas, and preliminary facts, which are used throughout this article. We set be a complete probability space. Let be a separable Banach space and denote be the Banach space of all continuous -valued functions on interval equipped with the supremum norm . In the sequel, a mapping is said to be a stochastic process if for each , is measurable. First, we recall some basics definitions and properties related to random operators which are used in this paper.
Definition 1.
A mapping is said to be random Carathéodory if the following hold:
- (a)
- The mapping is jointly measurable for all and for all ;
- (b)
- The mapping is jointly continuous for almost each and for all ;
Definition 2
(see [16]). Let be a separable Banach space with Borel σ-algebra . A mapping is called a random operator if is measurable for each .
It is generally expressed as . We will use these two expressions interchangeably in this paper.
Definition 3
(see [16]). Let be a mapping and
- (i)
- A mapping is called a random operator with stochastic domain if
- (a)
- is measurable (i.e, for all );
- (b)
- for every open set and any ,
- (ii)
- We say that Υ is continuous if every is continuous.
Definition 4
(see [16]). For a random operator Υ, a mapping is called a random (stochastic) fixed point of Υ if for -almost all , we have
and
for every open set (i.e., y is measurable).
Lemma 1
(see [16]). Let be complete and let and be measurable. Then defined by
is a measurable multivalued mapping.
Lemma 2
(see [16]). Let be measurable with closed, convex and solid ( i.e., ) for all . Assume there exists a measurable random variable with for all . Let Υ be a continuous random operator with stochastic domain such that for every ,
then Υ has a stochastic fixed point.
In this work, the existence of a mild solution to problem (1) is related to the existence of resolvent family introduce by Pardo and Lizama [6].
2.1. Resolvent Family
Now, we recall some definitions and basic results on fractional calculus. Let denote the gamma function and define for by
It is known that satisfies the following properties:
- (i)
- for any , ;
- (ii)
- for and , , where and denote the Laplace transformation and convolution, respectively.
The most frequently encountered tools in the theory of fractional calculus are provided by the Riemann–Liouville and Caputo fractional differential operators.
Definition 5.
The Riemann–Liouvulle fractional integral of a function of order with lower limit zero is defined as follows
and , provided that side integral is point-wise defined in .
Definition 6.
Let be given and denote . The Caputo fractional derivative of order of a function with lower limit zero is given by
and , where and is ceiling function.
For more progress and important properties about fractional calculus and its applications, we refer the reader to [1,2] and references therein. The following definition was introduced by Pardo and Lizama [6] and provides a suitable representation of a mild solution for Problem (1) in terms of a specific family of bounded and linear operators.
Definition 7
(see [6]). Let A be a closed linear operator on a Banach space with domain and let , be real positive numbers. Then A is called the generator of a -resolvent family if there exists and a strongly continuous function such that
and
where and .
Theorem 1
(see [6]). Let and , be given and let A be a generator of a bounded and strongly continuous cosine family . Then, A generates a bounded -resolvent family .
Motivated by Pardo and Lizama [6], we introduce the concept of random mild solution for Equation (1) as follows.
Definition 8.
Let and , be given and be a generator of a bounded -resolvent family . Then, a stochastic process is said to be random mild solution of Equation (1) if , , and satifies the following integral Equation
for , where .
2.2. Measures of Noncompactness
We recall some fundamental definitions and lemmas related to the measure of noncompactness. We introduce first the definition for Hausdorff’s measure of noncompactness and its properties.
Definition 9
(see [17]). The Hausdorff measure of noncompactness defined on bounded set E of Banach space is
More details on the Hausdorff’s measure of noncompacness can be found in Goebel [17] and Deimling [18].
The notations and stand for the Hausdorff measure of noncompactness on the bounded set of and , respectively. For any and , set . Then .
The next results play an important role in demonstrating our main result.
Lemma 3
(see [17]). Let be bounded, then
where . Furthermore, if V is equicontinuous on , then is continuous on , and .
Lemma 4
(see [19]). Let be a sequence of Bochner integrable functions from into such that for every and almost all , where , then the function and satisfy
Definition 10
(see [20]). A countable set is called semicompact if there exists a function satisfying for a.e. and the sequence is relatively compact in .
Lemma 5.
[20] Let and the sequence be semicompact. Then the following statements hold:
- (i)
- The set is relatively compact in .
- (ii)
- If , then , as , for all .
To prove our existence results, we shall use the following Mönch’s fixed point theorem combined with the stochastic fixed point theorem (i.e., Lemma 2).
Lemma 6
(see [21]). Let be a closed and convex subset of and . Then a continuous mapping which satisies Mönch condition (i.e., is countable and is compact) has a fixed point in .
3. Some Existence Results
In this section, we investigate the existence of random mild solution for Equation (1). The following conditions will be used in our main theorem.
- (H1)
- be a generator of a bounded -resolvent family which is equicontinous. Let .
- (H2)
- Then function is random Caratheodory and the functions and are measurables and essentialy bounded. Letfor some constant .
- (H3)
- There exist two functions and such that for each , for a constant and a nondeacresing continuous function with
- (H4)
- For a constant and bounded subsets , there exists a function such that for each , with
- (H5)
- There exists a random function such thatwhere .
The following existence theorem is one of the main results of this paper.
Theorem 2.
Assume that the assumptions (H1)–(H5) are valid, then the multi-term time-fractional integro-differential problem (1) has at least one mild random solution on provided that
where .
Proof.
It is noted that
Consider the random operator defined by
for We divide the proof into a sequence of steps.
Step 1. We show that the mapping is a random operator with stochastic domain.
By assumption (H2), we know that for , , and are measurables. Then is a random varriable. Let be defined by
Thus, the set is bounded, closed, convex and solid for all . So D is measurable by Lemma 1. For each , using (H2), (H3), (H4), and Hölder’s inequality, we have
which implies that is a random operator with stochastic domain D and for each .
Step 2. Show that is continuous on .
Let be a sequence in satisfying in and define
and
then
by assumption (H2) and combining with Lebesgue dominated convergence theorem, we get
consequently, we obtain
hence is continuous.
Step 3. Show that for every , .
To achieve this, we going to demontrate that the Mönch condition holds. Let be arbitrary fixed. First, let show that maps bounded sets into equicontinuous sets of . Let with and . By the equicontinuouty of , we have
By the equicontinuity of and Lebesgue dominated convergence theorem, we conclude that the right side of the above inequality tends to zero (independently of ) as . Thus, is equicontinuous on .
Now, let us assume that be a countable subset of and . Since is is bounded and equicontinuous, we have is bounded and equicontinuous and therefore by Lemma 3, the function is continuous on . By Lemma 4, we get
By Lemma 3, we obtain
From Mönch condition, we get
With another growth condition of , the condition (H4) can be deleted. Precisely, we replace the assumption (H3) with , where
- There exist two functions such that for each , for a constant withfor and
Theorem 3.
Proof.
Using (H1), (H2), , and Hölder’s inequality, we have
where
and
choosing and
we get
The proof can be complete similarly to Theorem 2. □
Remark 1.
Consider the measure of noncompactness and ν defined in by
for all bounded subsets of , where stand for the collection of all countable subsets of , and L is an appropriate constant to be defined later. is the modulus of equicontinuity of the function set defined by
From [20], we know that there exists a which achieves the maximun in (5). Furthermore, the measure is nonsingular, monotone and regular.
Applying the abaove regular measure of noncompactness, we obtain the following result.
Theorem 4.
Assume that the assumptions (H1)–(H5) are valid, then the multi-term time-fractional integro-differential problem (1) has at least one mild random solution on .
Proof.
As in the proof of Theorem 2, we show that the operator has a stochastic fixed point. We know that is a random operator with stochastic domain which is continuous and maps bounded sets into equicontinuous sets of . So, in order to finish the proof it is sufficient to show that satisfies the Mönch’s condition.
Let and be a countable subset of and . Since has a maximum, let be a denumerable set which attain its maximum. Then there exists a set such that
We choose such that
Now, by (4), we derive that
Thus, we have
From (7), we obtain
By the definition of , we get
From (H4), we obtain
which implies that
is relatively compact for almost all in . Since , by (H3), we derive that is uniformly integrable for a.e . From Definition 10, we conclude that is semicompact and by Lemma 4, the set
is relatively compact in . Hence, by (6), is also relatively compact in . Since is a nonsingular, monotone and regular measure of noncompactness, then by Mönch condition, we have
which shows that is relatively compact in . The proof is completed. □
Remark 2.
In comparison to Theorem 2, the result obtain in Theorem 3 is more general and interesting. Due to the choice of the measure of noncompactness, we can notice that inequality (2) in Theorem 2 is not necessary in Theorem 3.
In Theorem 3, when we replace the condition (H4) by (H3), we obtain the following result where the condition (H5) is released.
Theorem 5.
Under the assumptions (H1), (H2), (H3) and (H4), the multi-term time-fractional integro-differential problem (1) has at least one mild random solution on .
Proof.
As in the proof of Theorem 3, there exists a random function such that the operator is a random operator with stochastic domaine . Furthermore, we know that is a random operator with stochastic domain which is continuous and maps bounded sets into equicontinuous sets of . So, we only need to check that satisfies the Mönch’s condition. Following a similar argument as in the proof of Theorem 3, one can verify the conclusion. □
Remark 3.
The random differential equation with delay is a special type of random functional differential equations. The random functional differential equations with state-dependent delay have many important applications in mathematical models of real phenomena. By applying the ideas and techniques as in this article and making some appropriate conditions, one can obtain the existence results for a class of multi-term time-fractional random integro-differential equations with state-dependent delay.
4. A Nontrivial Example of Application of Theorem 2
In this section, we give a nontrivial example to illustrate our main results.
Example 1.
Let be such that . We consider the following problem with random effects:
where Q is a real-valued random variable, are given functions and a complete probability space. Let and define the operator by , where
then
where , is the orthogonal set of eigenvectors of . Thus, generates a strongly continuous cosine family given by
Since be such that , by Theorem 1, we deduce that generates a bounded -resolvent family
where
is the Wright functions. Furthermore, we define
and
For every , and , define
where . Then Equation (11) can be rewritten in the abtract form of Equation (1). From the definition of the nonlinear term F, we have
where . Therefore
and for any bounded and contable set of , we obtain
where . Taking and , we have
If then by Theorem 2, the random system (11) has at least one random mild solution.
5. Conclusions
Random fractional integro-differential equations are one of the most important research topics in the past thirty years. In this paper, we investigate the existence of mild solutions to a multi-term fractional integro-differential Equation (1) with random effects (see Theorems 2–5). A nontrivial example illustrating Theorem 2 is also given.
Author Contributions
Writing original draft, A.D. and W.-S.D. Both authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
Funding
The second author is partially supported by Grant No. MOST 110-2115-M-017-001 of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of China.
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Acknowledgments
The authors wish to express their hearty thanks to the anonymous referees for their valuable suggestions and comments.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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