Abstract
This research article investigates a tripled system of nonlinear fractional differential equations with n terms. The study explores this novel class of differential equations to establish existence and stability results. Utilizing Schaefer’s and Banach’s fixed point theorems, we derive sufficient conditions for the existence of at least one solution, as well as a unique solution. Furthermore, we apply Hyers–Ulam stability analysis to establish criteria for the stability of the system. To demonstrate the applicability of the main results, a detailed example is provided.
1. Introduction
In many crucial situations, the behavior of dynamical systems is best described by fractional differential equations (FDEs), as ordinary differential equations (ODEs) may fail to capture these dynamics. Systems of differential equations are referred to as single, coupled, tripled, or m-systems of DEs, depending on the number of DEs involved. Each type of system has numerous applications and is important for mathematically modeling various phenomena. Single and coupled systems of DEs have gained importance in various applied problems, as seen in [,,,,,,,]. Numerous studies have investigated these systems, contributing significantly to the literature (see [,,,,,,,,,,]). In [], Taieb and Dahmani studied a coupled system of nonlinear DEs involving n-nonlinear terms, investigating the existence of solutions. On the other hand, tripled systems of DEs are rarely considered. Applications of tripled systems of DEs can be observed in gene regulatory networks, epidemiology, the dynamics of hormones in endocrine systems, food chains involving three species, three-stage life cycles, microbial community dynamics, etc. Recently, Madani et al. [] investigated a tripled system of NFDEs. Motivated by these applications of tripled DE systems, this article investigates a tripled system of NFDEs with n-nonlinear terms. We establish existence and stability results for this system, which is described by
where the functions are continuous for each , represents the Caputo derivative, with fractional orders and and denote Riemann–Liouville (R-L) integrals, and
The considered problem contains n-term DEs, which are of great interest in various scientific and engineering fields. In fact our considered problem is the generalization of the coupled system given in [] to the tripled system of DEs. To the best of our knowledge, such problems have not yet been studied as a tripled system of DEs.
The rest of the paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, preliminary results are given. In Section 3, an auxiliary result is proved. In Section 4, main results about the solution’s existence are given. In Section 5, stability results are derived. In Section 6, the derived results are applied to a general problem to validate the results. In Section 7, the conclusion is given.
2. Basic Results
The following definitions and lemmas are recalled from [,,].
Definition 1.
Let is a continuous function. Then, the fractional-order integral of θ in the Riemann–Liouville sense is defined by
where
Definition 2.
Let is a continuous function. Then, the Caputo fractional-order derivative of θ is given by
where ; .
Definition 3
([,]). The set G is equi-continuous if for any there exists such that if , , and , we have
Definition 4
([]). A bounded linear operator T acting from a Banach space X into another space Y is called completely continuous if T maps weakly convergent sequences in X to norm convergent sequences in Y.
The following lemma is adopted from [,,].
Lemma 1.
If , and , then:
In addition, iff the function θ is constant.
The following lemma is adopted from [,,].
Lemma 2.
Assume that , then for all we have
where is the lowest integer; is a floor function which represents the integer part of α.
The following lemma is adopted from [,,].
Lemma 3.
Theorem 1
([]). (Schaefer’s fixed point theorem). Let S be a norm-linear space, and let be its convex subset with . Assume that is a completely continuous operator. Then, either the set
is unbounded or has a fixed point in .
3. Auxiliary Result
In this section, an auxiliary result is proved, and it is followed by the main results. We proceed with proving a Lemma that follows.
Lemma 4.
Let be given continuous functions. Then, the problem
has the solution
where .
Proof.
We have
By applying Lemma 2, we have:
where Applying Lemma 3, we have
Using the given conditions, we obtain Therefore, we have
Using , we obtain
Putting the values of we obtain (5). □
Corollary 1.
Now, we introduce the space
with the norm
where
Then, is a Banach space.
4. Main Results
In this section, we give our main results regarding the solution’s existence. For the analysis of the main results, we need to impose the following assumptions:
Hypothesis 1.
Assume that the functions are continuous for each .
Hypothesis 2.
Assume that there exist non-negative and continuous functions with and such that for any , and every , the following relation holds
with , , for , and
Hypothesis 3.
Assume that there exist non-negative functions such that
with , , ,
We introduce the notions assuming that the denominators are different from zero:
Before going to the fixed point results, we define the integral operator by
such that
and
where , , .
Next, we investigate uniqueness of the solution for the proposed problem which is based on the Banach fixed point theorem.
Theorem 2.
Let (Hypothesis 1) and (Hypothesis 2) hold. If the inequality
is satisfied for the notions defined, then the integral operator has a unique fixed point in Banach space V, defined by (12).
Proof.
For the required result, it is necessary to show that Z is contractive.
Let then, for each we have, after the triangle inequality,
Hence,
Similarly,
On the other side,
Consequently,
Therefore,
Similarly, we get
and
According to the norm defined by (13), we have:
Thus, Z is contractive by using (15) and therefore it has a unique fixed point. Consequently, the proposed problem solution is a unique one. □
In the next theorem, we prove that the proposed problem solution is at least one. This is a very important result because demonstrating the existence of a solution guarantees that the problem is solvable, which is essential for mathematical modeling. This result provides a basis for further mathematical analysis, such as that for uniqueness, and stability.
Theorem 3.
Let Hypothesis 1 and 3 be satisfied and let operator Z be well-defined. Then, there is at least one confirmed solution for problem (1).
Proof.
The proof of the theorem is based on Schaefer’s fixed point theorem []. By , the functions are continuous and hence the operator Z is continuous. To show that Z is completely continuous, it is necessary that the following is true:
- It maps bounded sets of V into bounded sets of V;
- It is equi-continuous.
To prove (I), we take the finite set For and for each , we have
By using , we have
Therefore,
Similarly,
On the other side,
Consequently,
Therefore,
Similarly,
Consequently,
Hence, we prove that Z(V) is bounded. Thus, it is proof of (I). In the next section, we prove (II): that is equi-continuous.
For any , we consider
By using Hypothesis 3 and taking supremum, we have
Similarly,
and
On the other side, we have
Consequently,
Similarly,
and
Combining , and applying the Arzel–Ascoli theorem [,], we have that Z is a completely continuous operator.
Now, it remains necessary to show that the set defined by
is bounded. Let . Then, by definition, Explicitly, we write and Thus, we have
From (28), we write
Therefore,
Similarly,
On the other side, we obtain
Hence, the set is bounded. Therefore, by Theorem 1, there is one or more solutions to problem (1). □
5. Hyers–Ulam (H-U) Stability
In this section, we perform Hyers–Ulam stability analysis for tripled systems of DEs (1). Let . Then, for some we construct the set of inequalities in unknowns , and , as:
where
From [], we adopt the following definitions of H-U stability.
Definition 5.
Definition 6.
We make the following remark to obtain the corresponding perturbed problem with small perturbation functions. It is used to establish bounds on the perturbation’s effect on the system, and to quantify the relationship between the perturbation and the resulting change in the system’s behavior.
Remark 1.
is a solution of the inequality (57), if there exist functions which are dependent of , respectively, such that for , we have
By Remark 1, we have the following problem with small perturbation functions
Corollary 2.
Let represent the solution to the tripled system of perturbed DEs (60). Then, by Lemma 4, we have
where , , .
Theorem 4.
Let () and () hold and let , , and . If the inequality
is satisfied, then the proposed problem is H-U stable and consequently it is generalized H-U stable.
Proof.
On using (), (63) implies that
Hence,
Similarly,
On the other hand, we obtain
Therefore,
Similarly,
By the norm defined in (13), we have
By Definition 5, the H-U stability criteria are satisfied. Therefore, the proposed problem is H-U stable. □
Corollary 3.
6. Application
In this section, we apply the main results to the following general problem to illustrate their applicability.
Example 1.
Here Clearly, we have , , and .
We set the functions
So, for and we have
We take
Similarly, we set
So, for and we have
Here, we take
The corresponding supremum values are given by
Similarly, from
we have
The corresponding supremum values are:
We set the functions
So, for and we have
We have
The associated supremum values are:
From
we have
The associated supremum values are:
It follows that
Therefore, by Theorem 2, we conclude that the solution to the tripled system (73) is a unique one. Also, the requirements of Theorem 4 are fulfilled. Therefore, it is H-U stable.
7. Conclusions
In this research, we investigated a tripled system of n-term NFDEs. We explored this novel class of differential equations, focusing on existence and stability results. We determined sufficient conditions for the existence of at least one unique solution by applying Schaefer’s and Banach’s fixed point theorems, respectively. Furthermore, by employing Hyers–Ulam stability analysis, we established criteria for the system’s stability. The applicability of these main results is illustrated through a self-explanatory example. Tripled systems of n-term NFDEs have a wide range of applications. Notably, they can be applied to gene regulatory networks, epidemiology, the dynamics of three hormones in an endocrine system, three-species food chains, three-stage life cycles, microbial community dynamics, and so on.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization, M.S.A.; Software, O.O.; Formal analysis, A.M. and A.A. (Amer Alsulami); Investigation, M.S.A.; Resources, M.S.A.; writing—original draft preparation, A.A. (Arshad Ali); writing—review and editing, K.A. and A.A. (Amer Alsulami); Visualization, A.M.; Project administration, K.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 researchers would like to thank the Deanship of Graduate Studies and Scientific Research at Qassim University for the financial support (QU-APC-2024-9/1).
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
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