Abstract
In this article, we propose a coupled system of Caputo fractional Hahn difference equations with nonlocal fractional Hahn integral boundary conditions. The existence and uniqueness result of solution for the problem is studied by using the Banach’s fixed point theorem. Furthermore, the existence of at least one solution is presented by using the Schauder fixed point theorem.
Keywords:
fractional Hahn integral; Caputo fractional Hahn difference; boundary value problems; existence MSC:
39A10; 39A13; 39A70
1. Introduction
Quantum calculus is the study of calculus without limits. There are several types of quantum difference operators. Used in problems of mathematical areas for instance, orthogonal polynomials, combinatorics, arithmetics, particle physics, quantum mechanics, the theory of relativity and variational calculus [,,,,,,,,]. In addition, the applications of the integral boundary equations and boundary element methods development could be found in [,,,,].
Jackson q-difference operator, the forward (delta) difference operator and the backward (nabla) difference operator are the well-known operators used in many research works. In 1949, the Hahn difference operator developed from the forward difference operator and the Jackson q-difference operator was proposed by Hahn [] as
We note that
Hahn’s operator has been used in the determination of new families of orthogonal polynomials and in approximation problems (see [,,]). Recently, the Hahn difference calculus has become a favourite topic for analysis.
Later, the right inverse of Hahn difference operator was introduced by Aldwoah [,]. This operator is formulated from Nörlund sum and Jackson q-integral []. In 2010, Malinowska and Torres proposed Hahn variational calculus [,]. In 2013, Hamza et al. [,] proved the existence and uniqueness of solution for the initial value problems for Hahn difference equations. In addition, they obtained a mean value theorems for this calculus, and established Gronwall’s and Bernoulli’s inequalities with respect to the Hahn difference operator. In the same year, Malinowska and Martins [] proposed Hahn variational problem to generalize the Hahn calculus of variations. They obtained transversality conditions.
In 2016, Sitthiwirattham [] studied the nonlocal boundary value problem for a second-order Hahn difference equation, their problem contains two Hahn difference operators with different numbers of q and , the existence and uniqueness result was proved by using the Banach fixed point theorem, and the existence of a positive solution was established by using the Krasnoselskii fixed point theorem. In 2017, Sriphanomwan et al. [] developed the above problem by including an Hahn integro-difference term and integral boundary condition, the existence and uniqueness of solutions was obtained by using the Banach fixed point theorem, and the existence of at least one solution was established by using the Leray–Schauder nonlinear alternative and Krasnoselskii’s fixed point theorem.
Meanwhile, there were some research works related to fractional -difference operator for (see [,,,,]). However, the fractional Hahn operators must be satisfied with . Presently, the fractional Hahn difference operators was introduced by Brikshavana and Sitthiwirattham []. In addition, boundary value problems of fractional Hahn difference equations have been studied (see [,,]).
Since the boundary value problem for systems of fractional Hahn difference equations have never been presented before, we devote our attention to study this kind of problem. In this paper, we consider the boundary value problem for the system of Caputo fractional Hahn difference equations of the form
with the nonlocal three-point fractional Hahn integral boundary value conditions
where ; ; for , are given functions, and are given functionals.
We organize the paper as follows. We provide some definitions and lemmas in Section 2. We present the existence and uniqueness of a solution for system (1) in Section 3. The Banach fixed point theorem is the tool to get the result. In addition, we prove the existence of at least one solution for system (1) by employing the Schauder’s fixed point theorem in Section 4. Finally, we present some examples of the main results.
2. Preliminaries
In this section, we introduce notations, definitions, and lemmas which are used in the main results [,,,,]. Let , and define
We define the q-analogue of the power function with as
The -analogue of the power function with is defined by
Generally, for ,
Note that and . In addition, we use the notation for . The q-gamma and q-beta functions are defined by
respectively.
Definition 1.
Letting , and f be defined on an interval which contain , the Hahn difference of f is defined by
and provided that f is differentiable at . We call the -derivative of f, and say that f is -differentiable on I.
Remark 1.
The following are some properties of the Hahn difference operator:
- (1)
- (2)
- (3)
- (4)
Let where and . We define the -interval by
Observe that, for each , the sequence is uniformly convergent to . We next define the forward jump operator and the backward jump operator for .
Definition 2.
Let I be any closed interval of which contain and . Assume that is a given function. -integral of f from a to b is defined by
where
provided that the series converges at and . We call f -integrable on . The above summation is called the Jackson–Nörlund sum.
We note that f is defined on We next provide the following lemma introducing the fundamental theorem of Hahn calculus.
Lemma 1.
Let be continuous at . Define
Then, F is continuous at . Furthermore, exists for every and
Conversely,
Lemma 2.
Let , and be continuous at . Then,
Lemma 3.
Let and . Then,
Next, fractional Hahn integral, fractional Hahn difference of Riemann–Liouville and Caputo types are introduced.
Definition 3.
Letting and f be defined on , the fractional Hahn integral is defined by
and .
Definition 4.
Letting and f be defined on , the fractional Hahn difference of the Caputo type of order α is defined by
and , where
Lemma 4.
Let and . Then,
for some and
We provide the next lemma for simplify calculating the result.
Lemma 5.
Letting and
In order to study the existence and uniqueness results of solution of the nonlinear problem (1), we first consider the linear variant of problem (1) and its solution in the following lemma.
Lemma 6.
Let , for , be given functions; be given functionals. Then, the problem
has the unique solution
where
and
Proof.
For and , by using Lemma 4 and the fractional Hahn integral of order for (3), we have
Using the boundary condition (3), we find that
Therefore,
Taking the fractional Hahn integral of order for (11), we get
for . From the boundary condition (3), we have
and
Finally, the constants and are investigated by solving the system of Equations (13) and (14) as
and
where and are defined as Equations (8)–(10), respectively.
3. Existence and Uniqueness Result
In this section, we aim to prove the existence result for Problems (1) and (2). Here, we let be the Banach space for all continuous functions on , and clearly that the product space is the Banach space. We set the spaces
Define the norm as follows:
where and
Obviously, the space is also the Banach space with the norm
Next, we let and we define the operator by
and
where is defined as (7), and the functionals defined by
with
We note that Problems (1) and (2) have solutions if and only if the operator has fixed points.
Theorem 1.
For each , we assume that and are given functionals. Suppose
- There exist constants such that, for each ,
- There exist constants such that, for each
- for each .
Proof.
The goal is to prove that is a contraction mapping. Letting and , we obtain
and
From (29) and (30), we find that
Therefore, it implies that
Next, taking the Caputo fractional Hahn difference of order for (16), we have
Hence,
It implies that
Similarly, we obtain
and
From (35) and (36), we can state that
Similarly, by (32) and (37), we have
Therefore, by (38) and (39), we can conclude that
Since , is a contraction mapping, from the Banach fixed point theorem, we can conclude that the operator has a fixed point. Therefore, Problems (1) and (2) have a unique solution. □
4. Existence of at Least One Solution
In this section, we further present the existence of at least one solution to (1) and (2) by using Schauder’s fixed point theorem.
Theorem 2.
Proof.
We divide the proof into three steps as follows
Step I. Verify that map bounded sets into bounded sets in . We let for and choose a constant
where are defined as (21)–(28), respectively, and is defined by
Here, we assume that
For each and , we obtain
and
From (43) and (44), we find that
Similarly to Theorem 1, we obtain
Furthermore, we have
and
From (46) and (47), we can show that
Similarly, from (45) and (48), we have
Therefore, from (49) and (50), we can conclude that
From (51), we get . Therefore, is uniformly bounded.
Step II. Show that is continuous on .
Letting , there exists such that, for each and with
whenever ,
whenever ,
whenever ,
whenever .
Consider
and
Therefore, it implies that
Similarly to the above proof and Theorem 1, we obtain
and
Step III. For this step, we prove that is equicontinuous with . For any with , we have
and
5. Example
In this section, we provide some examples to show the applicability of our results. Consider the system of fractional Hahn difference equations
Here, we set , and
For all and , it is clear that
Thus, holds with and .
For all , we have
Thus, holds with and
For all we have
Thus, holds.
In addition, we find that
Then, we find that
Therefore, we can conclude from Theorem 1 that Problem (65) has a unique solution. □
6. Conclusions
We initiate the study of the existence and a unique result of the solution for a Caputo fractional Hahn difference equations with nonlocal fractional Hahn integral boundary conditions. Some conditions are obtained when Banach’s fixed point theorem is used as a tool. In addition, the conditions for the case of at least one solution is obtained by using the Schauder fixed point theorem.
Author Contributions
These authors contributed equally to this work.
Funding
King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok. Contract no. KMUTNB-ART-60-35.
Acknowledgments
The first author of this research was supported by Chiang Mai University.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflicts of interest regarding the publication of this paper.
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