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Best Proximity Points for Monotone Relatively Nonexpansive Mappings in Ordered Banach Spaces

  • Karim Chaira,
  • Mustapha Kabil,
  • Abdessamad Kamouss and
  • Samih Lazaiz

1 November 2019

In this paper, we give sufficient conditions to ensure the existence of the best proximity point of monotone relatively nonexpansive mappings defined on partially ordered Banach spaces. An example is given to illustrate our results.

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nonlinear Analysis and Optimization with Applications)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,982 Views
26 Pages

Tripled Fixed Points, Obtained by Ran-Reunrings Theorem for Monotone Maps in Partially Ordered Metric Spaces

  • Aynur Ali,
  • Cvetelina Dinkova,
  • Atanas Ilchev,
  • Hristina Kulina and
  • Boyan Zlatanov

25 February 2025

Using the deep result of Ran & Reunrings, we generalize existing results for tripled fixed points. In contrast to the previously known results for tripled fixed points of maps with or without the mixed monotone property in partially ordered compl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,382 Views
18 Pages

Optimizing the Monotonic Properties of Fourth-Order Neutral Differential Equations and Their Applications

  • Hend Salah,
  • Osama Moaaz,
  • Sameh S. Askar,
  • Ahmad M. Alshamrani and
  • Elmetwally M. Elabbasy

11 September 2023

We investigate the oscillation of the fourth-order differential equation for a class of functional differential equations of the neutral type. We obtain a new single-oscillation criterion for the oscillation of all the solutions of our equation. We e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Theories and Applications for Dynamical Systems, Symmetry Problems and Differential Equations)
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  • Open Access
258 Views
9 Pages

10 October 2026

The aim of this work is to provide an iterative process for generating new monotonic properties for positive solutions of the second-order delay differential equation y″(t)+p(t)y(τ(t))=0, which will lead to the improvement of known oscillat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research on Delay Differential Equations and Their Applications)
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267 Views
36 Pages

Fractional-order differential operators accentuate weak edges and fine texture more effectively than their integer-order counterparts, but in image enhancement the fractional machinery is confined almost entirely to the spatial stage, while the tonal...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,123 Views
22 Pages

28 November 2023

The monotonic properties of positive solutions to functional differential equations of the third order are examined in this paper. It is generally known that by optimizing the relationships between a solution and its corresponding function, as well a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Differential Equations and Asymptotic Analysis: Recent Advances and Applications)
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403 Views
20 Pages

25 September 2026

The quadratic Lyapunov inequality of Aguila-Camacho, Duarte-Mermoud and Gallegos has been extended operator by operator—most recently to the generalised Hattaf mixed operator, which subsumes the Atangana–Baleanu, Hadamard, generalised pro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Theoretical and Numerical Methods for Fractional Differential and Difference Equations)
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  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,618 Views
30 Pages

14 October 2019

We present new results in interval analysis (IA) and in the calculus for interval-valued functions of a single real variable. Starting with a recently proposed comparison index, we develop a new general setting for partial order in the (semi linear)...

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  • Open Access
500 Views
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Sensor Fault Estimation via Polynomial Observers for T–S Fuzzy Caputo–Hadamard Fractional-Order Systems with Monotone Nonlinearities

  • Slim Dhahri,
  • Sahar Almashaan,
  • Hatem Alwardi,
  • Sultan M. Alzahrani and
  • Abdellatif Ben Makhlouf

In this paper, the issue of robust sensor fault estimation for Takagi–Sugeno (T–S) fuzzy systems with Caputo–Hadamard fractional-order dynamics subject to monotone nonlinearities is addressed. An adaptive observer is designed for th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Fractional-Order Control for Nonlinear Systems)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,343 Views
36 Pages

10 October 2024

This study investigates a symmetric fractional-order epidemic model with time delays and non-monotonic incidence rates, considering two viral strains. By confirming the existence, uniqueness, and boundedness of the system’s solutions, the resea...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Modeling in Biology and Life Sciences)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,772 Views
16 Pages

The aim of this paper is twofold: introducing the concept of monotone enriched nonexpansive mappings and a faster iterative process. Our examples illustrate the novelty of our newly introduced concepts. We investigate the iterative estimation of fixe...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,858 Views
19 Pages

27 December 2021

Iterative algorithms have been utilized for the computation of approximate solutions of stationary and evolutionary problems associated with differential equations. The aim of this article is to introduce concepts of monotone Reich and Chatterjea non...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Abstract Inequalities, Partial Functional Differential Equations and Their Applications)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,749 Views
15 Pages

Fourth-Order Neutral Differential Equation: A Modified Approach to Optimizing Monotonic Properties

  • Amany Nabih,
  • Osama Moaaz,
  • Sameh S. Askar,
  • Ahmad M. Alshamrani and
  • Elmetwally M. Elabbasy

21 October 2023

In this article, we investigate some qualitative properties of solutions to a class of functional differential equations with multi-delay. Using a modified approach, we first derive a number of optimized relations and inequalities that relate the sol...

(This article belongs to the Section C1: Difference and Differential Equations)
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2 Citations
1,006 Views
20 Pages

29 June 2025

We unify a known technique used for fixed points and coupled, tripled and N-tupled fixed points for weak monotone maps, i.e., maps that exhibit monotone properties for each of their variables. We weaken the classical contractive condition in partiall...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Research in Functional Analysis and Operator Theory)
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967 Views
10 Pages

25 June 2025

We establish a Perron–Frobenius-type theorem for the subdominant eigenvalue of Möbius monotone transition matrices defined on partially ordered state spaces. This result extends the classical work of Keilson and Kester, where they consider...

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28 Pages

14 October 2025

Polypharmacology in Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) demands models that capture irreducible higher-order drug co-action. We introduce a categorical–topological pipeline that encodes regimens as truncated multicomplexes with a hypergraph&nda...

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3 Citations
3,826 Views
16 Pages

7 December 2021

This study investigated the scalability of a cognitive multiple-choice test through the Mokken package in the R programming language for statistical computing. A 2019 mathematics West African Examinations Council (WAEC) instrument was used to gather...

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2,167 Views
15 Pages

5 June 2021

The paper presents a multidimensional generalization of the Schoenberg operators of higher order. The new operators are powerful tools that can be used for approximation processes in many fields of applied sciences. The construction of these operator...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetric Methods and Analysis for Time-Dependent Partial Differential Equations)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,835 Views
19 Pages

Evaluating Model Fit in Two-Level Mokken Scale Analysis

  • Letty Koopman,
  • Bonne J. H. Zijlstra and
  • L. Andries Van der Ark

7 August 2023

Currently, two-level Mokken scale analysis for clustered test data is being developed. This paper contributes to this development by providing model-fit procedures for two-level Mokken scale analysis. New theoretical insights suggested that the exist...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Aspects and Software in Psychometrics II)
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  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,595 Views
34 Pages

On Multivariate Bernstein Polynomials

  • Mama Foupouagnigni and
  • Merlin Mouafo Wouodjié

21 August 2020

In this paper, we first revisit and bring together as a sort of survey, properties of Bernstein polynomials of one variable. Secondly, we extend the results from one variable to several ones, namely—uniform convergence, uniform convergence of t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Trends on Orthogonal Polynomials: Approximation Theory and Applications)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,594 Views
29 Pages

Searching Monotone Arrays: A Survey

  • Márcia R. Cappelle,
  • Les R. Foulds and
  • Humberto J. Longo

26 December 2021

Given a monotone ordered multi-dimensional real array A and a real value k, an important question in computation is to establish if k is a member of A by sequentially searching A by comparing k with some of its entries. This search problem and its kn...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Surveys in Algorithm Analysis and Complexity Theory)
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  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,449 Views
16 Pages

In the paper, the authors introduce a unified generalization of the Catalan numbers, the Fuss numbers, the Fuss–Catalan numbers, and the Catalan–Qi function, and discover some properties of the unified generalization, including a product-...

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1,339 Views
9 Pages

Fixed-Point Theorem with a Novel Contraction Approach in Banach Algebras

  • Hamza El Bazi,
  • Younes Lahraoui,
  • Cheng-Chi Lee,
  • Loubna Omri and
  • Abdellatif Sadrati

19 September 2025

In this paper, we establish a fixed-point theorem for mixed monotone operators in ordered Banach algebras by introducing a novel contraction condition formulated in terms of the product law, which represents a significant departure from the tradition...

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746 Views
18 Pages

On One Laura Mayer’s Theorem

  • Bektur Baizhanov,
  • Nargiza Tazabekova and
  • Tatyana Zambarnaya

3 October 2025

The article’s primary focus is on the study of the number of countable non-isomorphic models of linearly ordered theories. The orthogonality of 1-types and their convex closures is employed to analyse a class of theories with a specific type of...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,677 Views
14 Pages

11 February 2023

In this article, we present new criteria for testing the oscillation of solutions of higher-order neutral delay differential equation. By deriving new monotonic properties of a class of the positive solutions of the studied equation, we establish bet...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Delay Differential Equations)
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456 Views
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Artificial spin ice provides a versatile platform for investigating geometrical frustration and emergent collective phenomena. However, direct visualization and manipulation of individual magnetic moments remain challenging in conventional nanoscale...

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32 Citations
2,406 Views
14 Pages

3 April 2023

This work aims to derive new inequalities that improve the asymptotic and oscillatory properties of solutions to fourth-order neutral differential equations. The relationships between the solution and its corresponding function play an important role...

(This article belongs to the Section C1: Difference and Differential Equations)
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  • Open Access
20 Citations
2,889 Views
15 Pages

A framework of distributed interval observers is introduced for fractional-order multiagent systems in the presence of nonlinearity. First, a frame was designed to construct the upper and lower bounds of the system state. By using monotone system the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fractional-Order System: Control Theory and Applications)
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1 Citations
1,664 Views
44 Pages

BV Solutions to Evolution Inclusion with a Time and Space Dependent Maximal Monotone Operator

  • Charles Castaing,
  • Christiane Godet-Thobie and
  • Manuel D. P. Monteiro Marques

18 March 2024

This paper deals with the research of solutions of bounded variation (BV) to evolution inclusion coupled with a time and state dependent maximal monotone operator. Different problems are studied: existence of solutions, unicity of the solution, exist...

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1 Citations
338 Views
26 Pages

13 June 2026

We study positive–negative guarded systems of language equations over a fixed finite alphabet. The ambient space is the complete ultrametric space of all formal languages equipped with a length-based distance, where two languages are close when...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Theory and Applications in Functional Analysis)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,460 Views
21 Pages

5 February 2022

Nonadditivity of a fuzzy measure, as an indicator of defectiveness, makes a fuzzy mea-sure less useful in applications compared to additive, probabilistic measures. In order to neutralize this indicator of defectiveness to some degree, it is importan...

(This article belongs to the Section D2: Operations Research and Fuzzy Decision Making)
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19 Citations
3,000 Views
30 Pages

20 August 2020

This paper is devoted to the study of evolution problems involving fractional flow and time and state dependent maximal monotone operator which is absolutely continuous in variation with respect to the Vladimirov’s pseudo distance. In a first p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Set-Valued Analysis)
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8 Citations
3,123 Views
17 Pages

Oscillation Criteria for First Order Differential Equations with Non-Monotone Delays

  • Emad R. Attia,
  • Hassan A. El-Morshedy and
  • Ioannis P. Stavroulakis

2 May 2020

New sufficient criteria are obtained for the oscillation of a non-autonomous first order differential equation with non-monotone delays. Both recursive and lower-upper limit types criteria are given. The obtained results improve most recent published...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New developments in Functional and Fractional Differential Equations and in Lie Symmetry)
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6 Citations
3,460 Views
20 Pages

This paper concerns cascaded, shifted, fractional-order, lead compensators made by the serial connection of two stages introducing their respective phase leads in shifted adjacent frequency ranges. Adding up leads in these intervals gives a flat phas...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fractional Calculus in Control and Modelling)
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8 Citations
2,796 Views
12 Pages

New Monotonic Properties of Positive Solutions of Higher-Order Delay Differential Equations and Their Applications

  • Ali Muhib,
  • Osama Moaaz,
  • Clemente Cesarano,
  • Shami A. M. Alsallami and ,
  • Sayed Abdel-Khalek and
  • Abd Elmotaleb A. M. A. Elamin
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23 May 2022

In this work, new criteria were established for testing the oscillatory behavior of solutions of a class of even-order delay differential equations. We follow an approach that depends on obtaining new monotonic properties for the decreasing positive...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Differential Equations and Applications)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,335 Views
14 Pages

24 December 2022

The oscillation of a first-order differential equation with several non-monotone delays is proposed. We extend the works of Kwong (1991) and Sficas and Stavroulakis (2003) for equations with several delays. Our results not only essentially improve bu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Modeling and Simulation of Oscillatory Phenomena)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,492 Views
20 Pages

1 November 2021

This paper investigates the local and global character of the unique positive equilibrium of a mixed monotone fractional second-order difference equation with quadratic terms. The corresponding associated map of the equation decreases in the first va...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nonautonomous and Random Dynamical Systems)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,061 Views
11 Pages

14 February 2023

This study aims to investigate the oscillatory behavior of the solutions of an even-order delay differential equation with distributed deviating arguments. We first study the monotonic properties of positive decreasing solutions or the so-called Knes...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Qualitative Theory of Functional Differential Equations and their Applications)
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2,351 Views
14 Pages

10 March 2021

This paper deals with the existence of ω-periodic solutions for nth-order ordinary differential equation involving fixed delay in Banach space E. Lnu(t)=f(t,u(t),u(t−τ)),t∈R, where Lnu(t):=u(n)(t)+∑i=0n−1aiu(i)(t), ai∈R, i=0,1,⋯,n−1, are constants, f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Nonlinear, Discrete, Continuous and Hamiltonian Systems)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,350 Views
17 Pages

12 November 2022

In the present article, we iteratively deduce new monotonic properties of a class from the positive solutions of fourth-order delay differential equations. We discuss the non-canonical case in which there are possible decreasing positive solutions. T...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Theory of Functions and Applications)
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  • Open Access
47 Citations
4,244 Views
24 Pages

Some Properties of the Kilbas-Saigo Function

  • Lotfi Boudabsa and
  • Thomas Simon

22 January 2021

We characterize the complete monotonicity of the Kilbas-Saigo function on the negative half-line. We also provide the exact asymptotics at −∞, and uniform hyperbolic bounds are derived. The same questions are addressed for the classical Le Roy functi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Special Functions with Applications to Mathematical Physics)
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25 Citations
2,221 Views
12 Pages

12 October 2021

In this paper, we study oscillation and asymptotic properties for half-linear second order differential equations with mixed argument of the form r(t)(y′(t))α′=p(t)yα(τ(t)). Such differential equation may possesses two types of nonoscillatory solutio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Oscillation Theory of Differential Equations: Problems, Solutions and Applications)
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4 Citations
1,804 Views
15 Pages

15 May 2023

In this work, by considering a third-order differential equation with delay-neutral arguments, we investigate the oscillatory behavior of solutions. It is known that the relationships between the solution and its derivatives of different orders, as w...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Qualitative Analysis of Differential Equations: Theory and Applications)
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1 Citations
1,527 Views
15 Pages

13 April 2023

In this survey, we review some old and new results initiated with the study of expansive mappings. From a variational perspective, we study the convergence analysis of expansive and almost-expansive curves and sequences governed by an evolution equat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Differential Equations and Asymptotic Analysis: Recent Advances and Applications)
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23 Citations
5,812 Views
10 Pages

On Extractable Shared Information

  • Johannes Rauh,
  • Pradeep Kr. Banerjee,
  • Eckehard Olbrich,
  • Jürgen Jost and
  • Nils Bertschinger

3 July 2017

We consider the problem of quantifying the information shared by a pair of random variables X 1 , X 2 about another variable S. We propose a new measure of shared information, called extractable shared information, that is left monotonic;...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Decomposition of Target Effects from Multi-Source Interactions)
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6 Citations
2,631 Views
19 Pages

16 April 2020

In this paper, we study the solvability of various two-point boundary value problems for x ( 4 ) = f ( t , x , x ′ , x ″ , x ‴ ) , t ∈ ( 0 , 1 ) , where f may be defined and continuous on a suitable bounded...

(This article belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)
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2 Citations
1,646 Views
14 Pages

10 November 2023

Recently, the uncertainty aspects of record values have been increasingly studied in the literature. In this paper, we study the residual Tsallis entropy of upper record values coming from random samples. In the continuous case, we define the Tsallis...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Statistical Mechanics and Complex Dynamical Systems)
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44 Pages

1 January 2025

The problem of constructing information measures with a well-defined interpretation is of fundamental significance in information theory. A good definition of an information measure entails certain desirable properties while also providing answers to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Synergy and Redundancy Measures: Theory and Applications to Characterize Complex Systems and Shape Neural Network Representations)
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4 Citations
1,576 Views
19 Pages

7 February 2025

We establish adequate conditions for the existence and uniqueness of solutions to systems of two matrix equations when the unknown matrices are raised to a power k∈[−1,1]∖{0}. The findings from coupled fixed points for ordered pairs...

(This article belongs to the Section Mathematical Analysis)
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14 Citations
2,676 Views
17 Pages

20 October 2022

In this manuscript, we defined (α, F)-contractions in the context of double-controlled metric spaces and partially ordered double-controlled metric spaces. We established new fixed-point results and defined the notion of double-controlled metri...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fixed Point Theory and Its Related Topics III)

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