Abstract
We consider first-order impulses for impulsive stochastic differential equations driven by fractional Brownian motion (fBm) with Hurst parameter involving a nonlinear -Laplacian operator. The system incorporates both state and derivative impulses at fixed time instants. First, we establish the existence of at least one mild solution under appropriate conditions in terms of nonlinearities, impulses, and diffusion coefficients. We achieve this by applying a nonlinear alternative of the Leray–Schauder fixed-point theorem in a generalized Banach space setting. The topological structure of the solution set is established, showing that the set of all solutions is compact, closed, and convex in the function space considered. Our results extend existing impulsive differential equation frameworks to include fractional stochastic perturbations (via fBm) and general -Laplacian dynamics, which have not been addressed previously in tandem. These contributions provide a new existence framework for impulsive systems with memory and hereditary properties, modeled in stochastic environments with long-range dependence.
Keywords:
stochastic differential equation; energy and industry; fractional Brownian motion; impulsive differential equations; matrix; generalized Banach space; iterative methods MSC:
334A37; 60H99; 47H10
1. Introduction
In some problems, partial differential equations are reduced to ordinary differential equations. In special cases, when incorporating randomness, equations can be reduced to systems of stochastic differential equations (SDEs). Differential equations for random processes are described based on which one or more of the terms are stochastic, meaning involving a random process. These equations are used to model systems that evolve over time with inherent randomness, such as financial markets, physical systems with thermal noise, or population dynamics with random events. In [1], generalizations of these equations have been considered in the context of a simplified heart, which is considered a constant-volume mixing chamber in some simple and special cases. Randomly generated differential equations across various types and difficulty levels can be seen, for instance, in works by [2,3,4,5]. For basic stochastic differential equation analysis, please see the results in [6,7,8].
Impulsive differential equations are used to model systems that experience sudden, instantaneous changes at certain moments in time. These are common in fields like control theory, population dynamics, pharmacokinetics, and physics, where a system evolves continuously but undergoes abrupt changes due to external or internal impulses. The general form of an impulsive differential equation is given by
with impulse (jump) condition at certain moments :
where
- is the state just after the impulse.
- is the state just before the impulse.
- is the impulse function (which can depend on the state and/or time).
- is the sequence of impulse times.
This theory describes the processes of a sudden change in state at certain moments (see, for example, [9,10,11,12,13]).
Here, we consider impulsive connection with stochastic differential equations. This allows us to construct a generalization of a wide class of processes, which play an important role in physical applications (in the theory of Brownian motion, in particular), as well as in cases with finite jumps.
In this paper, we conduct existence analysis on the IVP with impulse effects.
Here, where , are measurable functions and the processes stand for the independent fBms, where the Hurst parameter , and is a suitable monotone homeomorphism, , and , for each ,
and
The notations
and
denote the left and right limits of the function at , respectively.
So far, a considerable number of theories and techniques have been introduced for exploring stochastic systems, the most important of which relates to approximation theory, through which a simplified system is introduced to replace the original, requiring a certain relationship between their solutions (see [14,15,16]).
We structured our work as follows. In Section 2, the necessary background and tools on stochastic theory and iterative methods are introduced. In Section 3, we state and show certain new results regarding the existence and compactness of solution sets for the main problem. Some additional topological properties are given for these sets.
2. Background and Preliminaries
In this section, we briefly introduce some basic notations and certain useful tools (see [17,18]).
To define and work with stochastic processes, let us introduce the space , which is the usual complete probability space, and let be a filtration, such that , satisfying
- Right continuous: .
- The completeness: each contains all -null sets in ).
Then, the tuple is called a filtered probability space. This framework is necessary to define the stochastic process which will be written, for simplicity, as (see [4,19,20]).
Definition 1.
Let be the Hurst parameter. The fractional Brownian motion with Hurst index H is a centered self-similar Gaussian process with
- (i)
- (ii)
- Zero mean:
- (iii)
- Covariance function:
Remark 1.
- When fractional Brownian motion reduces to the standard equivalent.
- Note that the fractional Brownian motion is not a semi-martingale unless . In this case, Itô calculus does not apply directly.
- Self-similarity:
- Stationary increments:
- Long-range dependence:
- (a)
- If : Positive correlation (persistence) can be applied in Riemann–Stieltjes integrals.
- (b)
- If , negative correlation (anti-persistence) can be applied in rough path theory, especially when .
Let be Borel measurable and . be given as
So, we have
equipped with the following inner product
then will be a separable Hilbert space.
Let us now define as a set of smooth and cylindrical random variables as
Here, , , is a Hilbert space; for more details, please see [21,22,23].
The derivative operator of F is given as the -valued random variable:
As in [24], the Malliavin -derivative of F is
Definition 2.
Let be a stochastic process with integrable trajectories.
- (1)
- The symmetric integral of with respect to is given as the limit in the probability as ofprovided that this limit exists in probability, and is denoted by
- (2)
- The forward integral of with respect to is introduced as the limit in the probability when ofprovided that this limit exists in probability, and is denoted by
- (3)
- The backward integral of with respect to is introduced as the limit in probability as ofprovided that this limit exists in probability, and is denoted by
Remark 2
([24]). Let of integrands be given as the family of stochastic processes y on where if Suppose that y is a stochastic process in with
Thus, the symmetric integral exists and
where ⋄ is the Wick product, .
Remark 3
([24]). Let of integrands be defined on , where
Suppose that is a stochastic process in and
Then, there is the symmetric integral and the next relationship is true:
where ⋄ represents the Wick product, .
To introduce the principle of random means (averaging), we need the lemma.
Lemma 1
([25]). Let be a stochastic process in and ) be a fractional Brownian motion. Then, , , such that
where
A vector metric space and generalized Banach spaces shall be introduced. Let ; we note that
- For ;
- If we mean for all
- and
- Let so indicates that .
Definition 3.
Set E as a vector space on or . We define the vector-valued norm on E by the map where
- We have , if , then .
- We have and
- We have .
Lemma 2
([23]). Let N be some a matrix of non-negative numbers. Then, we have
- The matrix ;
- The matrix is non-singular and
- We have where ;
- The matrix is non-singular and has non-negative elements.
3. Solution
Let
we introduce the spaces
and
The space is equipped with
It is not hard to see that is a Banach space with
We define the space
equipped with
It is easy to see that is a Banach space with .
To prove the existence of a solution, we will need the next assumptions to use iterative methods with some appropriate topological properties.
- is a Carathéodory function withand
- Suppose that , where
- Suppose that with
Theorem 1.
Proof.
where . Let
and
Our proof is based on the next steps.
Step 1: Let the system
Let
with
Define
given by
where
Clearly, the fixed points of are solutions of the problem (4).
To use the Leray–Schauder-type nonlinear variant, we prove that is strictly continuous, supporting our subsequent claims.
Claim 1: sends bounded sets into bounded sets in . In fact, it suffices to prove that , , where
So,
Thus,
By Lemma 1, we have
Then,
where
As is continuous, we have
So,
and
here
As is continuous, we have
Claim 2: maps bounded sets to equicontinuous sets. Take , , and let , as in Claim 1. Let . Then,
By the classical mean value theorem, we have
Since , the RHS tends (5) to 0 and
Using the mean value theorem, we get
As , the RHS of (6) tends to 0.
Claim 3: We have , which is continuous. Let be a sequence where
Then, for , where
and
and . Then, for , we get
Using the dominated convergence theorem, we obtain
by the continuity of . Thus, using the dominated convergence theorem, we obtain
Thus, is continuous.
Similarly,
Then, is continuous.
Claim 4: A priori estimate. We should prove that , where
where is a solution of (4). Let be a solution of (4)
By Lemma 1, we have
Here,
Thus,
, and
with
Thus,
Let
From Claim 1–Claim 4, and owing to the Ascoli–Arzelà theorem, we find that the map is compact. We choose U where there is no so that
By the use of the nonlinear Leray–Schauder alternative, we find that admits a fixed point , which represents a solution of (4).
Step 2: Let us consider the system
Let
and
Taking
Define by
We observe that any solutions of (7) are considered fixed points of
given as
and
Similar to the first step, we may show that admits at least one fixed point that represents a solution of (7).
Step 4: We prove the compaction of
Let be a sequence in . Let
Then, from the previous parts of the proof of this theorem, we deduce that B is finite and isotropically continuous. Then, from the Ascoli–Arzelà theorem, we find that B is compact.
We have and , ; then,
- has a subsequence
As , , and then
and
• has a subsequence relabeled as in where
Taking
and
and
As , , and then
and
• We complete this process to find that admits a subsequence that converges to
and
This ensures the compaction of . □
Now, assumptions and in Theorem 1 will be replaced by . There exists a function and a continuous nondecreasing function with
and
Theorem 2.
Proof.
Similar to the proof of Theorem 1, one may prove that the system (1) admits at least one solution using the same technique.
• Let , and we get
Thus,
Let the functions defined for as
Using Lemma 1, we get
Here,
and, consequently,
for
Similarly,
and where
where
and
By and , we have
Using the well-known nonlinear Grönwall–Bihari inequality, we obtain
Then, depends only on , where
Here,
and
• Let , and we have
Then,
define the functions on as
Then,
with
and then
here
and
Similarly,
with
and
It can be written as
Thanks to the nonlinear Grönwall–Bihari inequality, we have
Then, depends only on , where
where
• For , we have
and
Then, , where
So, depends only on , where
where
and
Hence,
and
The proof is complete. □
Example 1.
Consider problem (1) with the following linear functions:
where are constants. Let the stochastic coefficients be defined by
with also kept constant.
Here, we can verify that assumption is satisfied. Indeed, since
we can choose
(a constant in ), and , which is continuous and non-decreasing on .Similarly, for the diffusion terms,
which, again, meets the condition with
Therefore, the problem satisfies all the hypotheses of Theorem 2, ensuring that at least one solution exists, and that the solution set is compact. The behavior of this solution can be further explored, either analytically or numerically depending on the values of , , and .
This example demonstrates how the general results of the paper can be applied in practice, serving as a starting point for more complex nonlinear or stochastic systems.
4. Examples Illustrating Theorems 1 and 2
4.1. Example 1
We provide an example that satisfies assumptions (H1)–(H3), demonstrating the validity of Theorem 1 (existence and compactness of solutions) and Theorem 2 (assuming it concerns continuation, uniqueness, or further properties such as stability or asymptotic behavior).
Consider the fractional stochastic system,
with the following components:
Let , which is continuous and monotone on .
Let
which are continuous in and measurable in t, hence Carathéodory.
Set
Assume that are deterministic or stochastic variables with finite second moments.
Hypothesis 1 (H1).
Since and are Carathéodory functions, and , we apply Jensen’s inequality and sub-additivity of roots:
so the inequality in (H1) holds.
Hypothesis 2 (H2).
We can thus take , . Similarly,
Hypothesis 3 (H3).
Since , and , we have
Thus, all hypotheses (H1)–(H3) are satisfied.
According to Theorem 1, the problem has at least one solution, and the set of all such solutions is compact in . Furthermore, assuming Theorem 2 establishes a continuation property, uniqueness under contraction, or solution set stability, the same conditions apply and are satisfied by this example.
4.2. Example 2
Consider the following impulsive stochastic differential system driven by fractional Brownian motion with Hurst parameter :
with initial conditions
where
- , which is a homeomorphism from onto and satisfies the conditions needed for ;
- and are in ;
- and for impulsive moments;
- The fractional Brownian motion is defined on a suitable filtered probability space.
We verify that the hypotheses of Theorem 1 (for basic existence) and Theorem 2 (under weakened assumption ) are satisfied:
- The functions and are continuous and satisfy the condition in with
and bounded on .
- The diffusion coefficients are square-integrable on ; hence, .
The impulsive operators are continuous and linear, satisfying the required compactness and boundedness conditions.
The mapping is strictly monotone, bijective, continuous, and inverse.
Thus, all assumptions of Theorems 1 and 2 are satisfied. Consequently, system (10) has at least one solution in the appropriate piecewise continuous space, and the solution set is compact.
5. Conclusions
In this paper, we studied the existence and compactness of solutions to a class of stochastic systems involving generalized differential operators driven by fractional Brownian motion. The main result, Theorem 2, was established under weakened assumptions , which extend the applicability of the theory in comparison to previous works.
The stochastic nature of the equations, driven by fractional Brownian motion, further complicates the analysis due to the memory and non-Markovian properties of noise. In this work, we overcome these obstacles by employing topological fixed-point methods and functional analytic techniques tailored to generalized Banach spaces.
Author Contributions
Writing—original draft preparation, T.B. and F.Z.L.; writing—review and editing, S.M.M., A.B.C. and K.B.; visualization, K.Z. and K.B.; supervision, K.Z. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
Funding
This work was supported and funded by the Deanship of Scientific Research at Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU) (grant number IMSIU-DDRSP2503).
Data Availability Statement
No new data were created or analyzed in this study.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
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