Abstract
In this article, a new kind of bilateral symmetric additive type functional equation is introduced. One of the interesting characteristics of the equation is the fact that it is ideal for investigating the Ulam–Hyers stabilities in two prominent normed spaces, namely fuzzy and random normed spaces simultaneously. This article analyzes the proposed equation in both spaces. The solution of this equation exhibits the property of symmetry, that is, the left of the object becomes the right of the image, and vice versa. Additionally, the stability results of this functional equation are determined in fuzzy and random normed spaces using direct and fixed point methods.
Keywords:
random normed spaces; fuzzy normed spaces; additive functional equations; Ulam–Hyers Stability; fixed point method MSC:
46S40
1. Introduction
Stability is integral to the study of functional equations (FEs) as it serves as an effective and reliable tool for quantifying the error that arises when replacing functions that satisfy some equations only roughly with the exact solutions to those equations. Presently, an equation is said to be stable in some set of functions if any function from that set that approximates the equation is comparable to an exact solution of the equation. Many mathematicians have studied quite a few stability problems of diverse functional equations (radical, reciprocal, logarithmic, algebraic) over the last few decades (see [1,2,3,4,5]).
Ulam raised a significant question about the stability of group homomorphisms in 1940 [6]. In the subsequent year, Hyers [7] provided a solution to Ulam’s question for the Cauchy additive FE. Rassias enhanced Hyers’ result after more than two decades by generalizing it [8]. Later, Gvrut [9] developed Rassias’ result by permitting unbounded control functions. The term “generalized Hyers–Ulam stability” of functional equations is now alluded to the stability concept first put forth by Rassias and Gvruta. For the detailed literature on the stability of functional equations, one can see [10,11].
Using the fundamental results of fixed-point theory, the fixed point method provides one of the effective techniques that can be used to investigate the Ulam stability of a FE. Some recent research and findings on fixed-point theory (FPT) can be seen in [12,13,14,15,16,17].
The Ulam stability of the Cauchy FE
in random normed spaces was investigated by D. Mihet et al. [18].
H.M. Kim et al. [19] studied a modified and generalized version of the Cauchy additive FE
and demonstrated the Ulam stability (US) for any fixed non-zero integer n in fuzzy Banach spaces (BSs). It is obvious that a function satisfies the aforementioned equation if and only if is additive. Consequently, the equation is referred to as the Cauchy additive functional equation, and its general solution is considered as the Cauchy additive function.
The Ulam–Hyers stability (UHS) of fixed point problems and the fixed points of mappings over a locally convex topological vector space were presented by Roy et al. [20]. Saha et al. [21] provided a solution using FPT to the stability problems in intuitionistic fuzzy BSs. Alanazi et al. [22] examined the fuzzy stability of a finite variable additive FE using direct and fixed point approaches. Bae et al. [23] demonstrated the stability problem and proposed a theory that symmetry is repeated self-similarity by simulating the well-known Cauchy and Jensen equations in two variables. Turab et al. [24] studied the applications of Banach limit in UHS. Other studies have examined the 2-normed spaces, Euler–Lagrange–Rassias quadratic FE, etc. [25,26,27,28].
Recently, Agilan et al. [29,30] studied the GUH stability of the following additive FE
in BS, quasi--normed spaces, and IFNS using direct and FPT. Some of the newly developed concepts and applications in the field of fuzzy normed spaces have been studied in [31,32,33].
Motivated by the above fact, this article introduces a novel class of bilateral symmetric additive type functional equation described, as below. The generalized Ulam–Hyers stabilities are determined for various general control functions of the equation
with and in fuzzy and random normed spaces using direct and fixed point techniques.
This is the first time in the literature that the generalized Ulam–Hyers stabilities for bilateral symmetric additive functional equations are analyzed using two distinct techniques in two different spaces at the same time. Consequently, the findings that will be discussed in the subsequent sections are both novel and essential to the study of functional equations. In Section 1, the fundamentals of fuzzy normed spaces and random normed spaces are discussed briefly with suitable examples. In the following section, the general solution of the bilateral symmetric additive type functional equation is derived. Section 3 covers the Ulam stability analysis of the new class of equation using the direct and fixed point methods in fuzzy normed spaces. In Section 4, the Ulam stability analysis is performed for the new equation in random normed spaces using direct and fixed point techniques.
1.1. Fundamentals of Fuzzy Normed Spaces
The fundamentals of fuzzy normed spaces are discussed based on the definitions provided in [34,35,36,37,38].
Definition 1.
Let be a real linear space. A function (the so-called fuzzy subset) is said to be a fuzzy norm on X if for all and all ,
- 1)
- for
- 2)
- if and only if for all
- 3)
- if
- 4)
- 5)
- is a non-decreasing function on and
- 6)
- For is (upper semi) continuous on .
The pair is called a fuzzy normed linear space. may be considered as the truth-value of the statement “the norm of is less than or equal to the real number t”.
Example 1.
Let be a normed linear space. Then,
is a fuzzy norm on .
1.2. Fundamentals of Random Normed Spaces
Fundamentals of random normed spaces are described in [39,40,41,42,43].
Definition 2.
A random normed space is a triple , where is a vector space, T is a continuous t-norm and μ is a mapping from into satisfying the following conditions:
- (I)
- for all if and only if ;
- (II)
- for all , and with ;
- (III)
- for all and .
Example 2.
Every normed space defines a random normed space , where
and is the minimum t-norm.
2. General Solution of Bilateral Symmetric Additive Functional Equation
In this section, let us consider and to be real vector spaces.
Lemma 1.
Proof.
If in (2), then . Replacing by in (2), the following result is obtained: for all . Replacing by in (2),
for all . By induction of n,
Taking in (2) and using (4),
for all . Multiplying both sides by in (5),
for all . Taking in (2) and using (4),
for all . Multiplying both sides by in (6),
for all . Replacing by in (2), and using , the following result is obtained:
for all . Multiplying both sides by in (7),
for all . Replacing by in (2), and using ,
for all . Multiplying both sides by in (7),
for all . Adding (6), (8), (10), and (12), Equation (1) can be derived. □
3. Classical Approach in Fuzzy Normed Spaces
For the rest of this article, and represent a linear vector space, fuzzy Banach space, and fuzzy normed space, respectively. The above notations are used in the following given mapping
Theorem 1 discusses the stability results of the proposed functional equations in the fuzzy normed spaces using classical direct method. Theorem 2 discusses the stability results of the proposed functional equations in the fuzzy normed spaces using fixed point technique.
Theorem 1.
Let be fixed and let be a mapping such that for some with
for all and all , , and
for all and all . Let a function satisfy the inequality
for all and all . Then, the limit
exists for all and the mapping is a unique additive mapping such that
with .
Proof.
Replacing by in (15),
for all and all . Replacing by in (18), the following result is obtained:
for all and all . Using (13), in (19),
for all and all . It is easy to verify from (20) that
holds for all and all . Replacing by in (21),
for all and all . It is obvious that
for all . From Equations (22) and (23),
for all and all . Replacing by in (24) and using (13), ,
for all and all and all . Replacing by in (25),
for all and all and all . Using in (26),
for all and all and all . Since and , the Cauchy criterion for convergence and implies that is a Cauchy sequence in . Since is a fuzzy Banach space, this sequence converges to some point . So, one can define the mapping by
for all Letting in (27),
for all and all . Letting in (28) and using , the following result is obtained:
for all and all . To prove that satisfies Equation (1), we have to replace by in (15), respectively,
for all and all . Now,
for all and all . Using (29) and in (30), the following result is derived:
for all and all . Letting in (31) and using (14),
for all and all . Using in the above inequality gives
for all . Hence, satisfies the additive functional Equation (1). In order to prove is unique, let be another additive functional equation satisfying (1) and (17). Hence,
for all and all . Since
Thus,
for all and all , which implies that . Therefore, is unique. □
Corollary 1.
Suppose that a function satisfies the inequality
for all and all , where are constants with , then there exists a unique additive mapping such that
for all and all .
Fixed Point Approach in Fuzzy Normed Spaces
Let us assume that is a constant such that
and is the set such that
Theorem 2.
Let be a mapping for which there exists a function with the condition
and satisfying the functional inequality
If there exists such that the function has the property
Then, there exists a unique additive function satisfying the functional Equation (1) and
with .
Proof.
Assume d be a general metric on such that
It is apparent that is complete. Let by for all For ,
for all Therefore, T is a strictly contractive mapping on with Lipschitz constant Replacing by in (36),
for all , Using (F3) in (40),
for all , with the help of (37) when , it follows from (41),
From the fixed point alternative in both cases, it follows that a fixed point of T exists in such that
Replacing by in (36), the following equation is obtained:
for all and all . Using the same procedure as in Theorem 13, it can be proved that the function satisfies the FE (1).
Using fixed point alternative, since is a unique fixed point of T in the set
C is a unique function such that
for all , and The following equation is obtained using the fixed point alternative again:
for all and . □
Corollary 2.
Let a function satisfy the inequality
for all and all , where are constants with . Then, there exists a unique additive mapping such that
for all and all .
4. Classical Approach in Random Normed Spaces
Let be a linear space and be a complete random normed space. A mapping is defined as by
for all .
Theorem 3 discusses the stability results of the proposed functional equations in the random normed spaces using the classical direct method. Theorem 4 discusses the stability results of the proposed functional equations in the random normed spaces using the fixed point technique.
Theorem 3.
Let . Let be an odd mapping for which there exists a function with the condition
such that the functional inequality with such that
for all and all . Then, there exists a unique additive mapping satisfying the functional Equation (1) and
for all and all . The mapping is defined by
with for all and all .
Proof.
Assume . Setting in (52),
for all and all . It follows from (55) and ,
for all and all . Replacing by in (56),
for all and all . It can be observed that
for all . From Equations (57) and (58),
for all and all . To prove the convergence of the following sequence
is replaced by in (59).
for all and all . Thus, is a Cauchy sequence. Since is complete, there exists a mapping , defined as
for all and all . Letting and in (60), we arrive at (53) for all and all . Now, to show that satisfies (1), replacing by , we have
for all and all . Taking on both sides, we find that satisfies (1) for all . Therefore, the mapping is additive.
Corollary 3.
Let Ψ and s be nonnegative real numbers. Let an additive function satisfy the inequality
for all and all . Then, there exists a unique additive function such that
for all and all .
Fixed Point Approach in Random Normed Spaces
Theorem 4.
Let be a mapping for which there exists a function with the condition
and satisfying the functional inequality
If there exists such that the function
has the property
Proof.
Let d be a general metric on such that
It is obvious that is complete. Define by for all Now, for ,
for all Therefore, T is a strictly contractive mapping on with Lipschitz constant Replacing by in (65),
for all , with the help of (66) when , it follows from (69) that
It can be deduced from the fixed point alternative in both cases that there is a fixed point of T in such that
Replacing by in (65),
for all and all . By following the same procedure as in Theorem 3, it can be proved that satisfies the functional Equation (1).
By the fixed point method, since is unique fixed point of T in the set
is a unique function such that
for all and Using the fixed point alternative again, the following result is obtained:
for all and .
Corollary 4.
Let Ψ and s be nonnegative real numbers. Let a additive function satisfy the inequality
for all and all . Then, there exists a unique additive function such that
for all and all .
Proof.
Using
□
5. Conclusions
In this article, a novel system of bilateral symmetry-type additive functional Equation (1) has been introduced. The general solution of the equation is derived and the Hyers–Ulam stability has been analyzed in fuzzy and random normed spaces simultaneously using direct and the fixed-point techniques. A few potential applications of this newly introduced equation and its stability analysis are also explored to help the readers appreciate and understand the significance of the functional equation. In the future, Hyers–Ulam stability for the same Equation (1) can be explored in other normed spaces such as L-Fuzzy normed spaces, Menger Probabilistic normed spaces, and non-Archimedian normed spaces. This is left as an open problem for future research work.
Author Contributions
Writing—original draft, P.A., K.J.; methodology, P.A., M.M.A.A. and A.A.; conceptualization, P.A.; supervision, K.J. and P.A.; investigation, K.J. and M.M.A.A. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
Funding
The authors would like to thank King Khalid University for funding this research work.
Institutional Review Board Statement
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Informed Consent Statement
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Data Availability Statement
Not applicable.
Acknowledgments
The authors extend their appreciation to the Deanship of Scientific Research at King Khalid University for funding this work through Large Groups. Project under grant number RGP.2/4/43.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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