Abstract
The present paper describes the implicit fractional pantograph differential equation in the context of generalized fractional derivative and anti-periodic conditions. We formulated the Green’s function of the proposed problems. With the aid of a Green’s function, we obtain an analogous integral equation of the proposed problems and demonstrate the existence and uniqueness of solutions using the techniques of the Schaefer and Banach fixed point theorems. Besides, some special cases that show the proposed problems extend the current ones in the literature are presented. Finally, two examples were given as an application to illustrate the results obtained.
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1 Introduction
The fractional calculus, which allows for the integration and differentiation of functions with non-integer orders, is one of the fastest-growing areas of mathematics based on the findings that fractional operators were used in mathematical modeling [10–12, 21, 25, 27, 29]. In [9, 19], the authors presented the so-called fractional differential operator of a function with respect to another function. These operators have generalized several well-known fractional operators dealing with the fractional derivatives of Caputo, Caputo–Hadamard, Caputo–Erdélyi–Kober and Caputo–Katugampola. Also, these operators have been successfully used to solve population growth and other models.
The most favored area of study in the field of fractional differential equations, which has received significant attention from researchers, is the theory of existence and uniqueness of solutions. Many researchers have introduced some interesting results on the existence and uniqueness of solutions of various initial/boundary value problems, using different techniques used in fixed point theory. For more details we refer the reader to [5, 6, 16, 18, 26, 30, 31]. In particular, the pantograph delay equation was used as an effective tool to gain insight into some of the current issues emerging from different fields of knowledge, such as quantum mechanics, probability, number theory, control systems and electrodynamics. However, a significant study has been carried out on the properties of this form of fractional differential equation, both analytical and numerical, and interesting results have been published; see [13, 15, 23].
Recently, Idris et al. [7] examined the implicit fractional pantograph differential equation given by
where \({}^{H}\mathcal{D}^{\gamma ,p;\phi }_{0^{+}}(\cdot )\) represent the fractional derivative of order γ and parameter (\(0\leq p\leq 1\)), in ϕ-Hilfer setting. \(\mathbb{I}^{1-\beta ;\phi }_{0^{+}}(\cdot )\) and \(\mathbb{I}^{q;\phi }_{0^{+}}(\cdot )\) are ϕ-Riemann–Liouville fractional integrals of order \(1-\beta \) and \(q>0\), respectively and \(g: (0, b]\times \mathbb{R}^{3}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) is a continuous function. The authors have established the existence and uniqueness of solutions using Schaefer’s and Banach’s fixed point theorem techniques. Besides, two different kinds of stability were discussed in the context of Ulam–Hyers and the generalized Ulam–Hyers theory. Anti-period problems have attracted the attention of researchers as anti-period boundary conditions occur in different disciplines. In the last two decades, these problems have been utilized for a wide variety of fields of science and engineering, such as underground water flow, populations dynamics and blood flow. Literature related to these problems can be found in [4, 28, 32, 34, 35].
Li et al. [22] studied the impulsive boundary value problem described by
where \({}^{C}D^{\rho }_{0^{+}}(\cdot )\) is the Caputo fractional derivative of order (\(1<\rho <2\)), \(c_{1}\ge c_{2}>0\), \(\mathcal{F} : [0, 1]\times \mathbb{R}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) is jointly continuous function, \(I_{j},J_{j}\in \mathbb{R}\) and \(t _{j}\) satisfy \(0=t_{0}< t_{1}<\cdots <t_{k}<t_{k+1}=1\), \(\Delta v(t_{j})=v(t_{j}^{+})-v(t_{j}^{-})\) with \(v(t_{j}^{+})=\lim_{\epsilon \rightarrow 0^{+}}v(t_{j}+ \epsilon )\) and \(v(t_{j}^{-})=\lim_{\epsilon \rightarrow 0^{-}}v(t_{j}+ \epsilon )\) representing the right and left limits of \(v(t)\) at \(t=t_{j}\). Recently, Ali et al. [8] examined the existence, uniqueness and stability of the boundary value problem:
where \({}^{C}\mathtt{D}^{\alpha }_{0^{+}}(\cdot )\), \({}^{C}\mathtt{D}^{r}_{0^{+}}( \cdot )\), \({}^{C}\mathtt{D}^{\tau }_{0^{+}}(\cdot )\) are Caputo fractional derivatives of order (\(2<\alpha \le 3\)), (\(0< r\le 1\)) and (\(1<\tau \le 2\)), respectively, and \(\varTheta \in \mathcal{C}([0, \mathfrak{T}], \mathbb{R}^{3}, \mathbb{R})\).
Inspired by the above recent results, we investigate the existence and uniqueness of solutions of the following nonlinear implicit fractional pantograph differential equation with Φ-Caputo fractional derivative and more general anti-periodic boundary condition (IFPBVPs). In short the IFPBVPs are of the form
where \({}^{C}\mathcal{D}^{r;\Phi }_{0^{+}}(\cdot )\), \({}^{C}\mathcal{D}^{p;\Phi }_{0^{+}}( \cdot )\) and \({}^{C}\mathcal{D}^{q;\Phi }_{0^{+}}(\cdot )\) are Φ-Caputo fractional derivative of order (\(2< r\le 3\)), (\(0< p\le 1\)) and (\(1< q\le 2\)), respectively with respect to \(\Phi \in \mathcal{C}([\mathcal{J}, \mathbb{R}])\) such that \(\Phi ^{\prime }(t)>0\), for all \(t\in \mathcal{J}\), \(\alpha _{1}\ge \alpha _{2}>0\).
Moreover, we also study the nonlinear implicit fractional pantograph boundary value problems (IFPBVPs) of the form
where \({}^{C}\mathcal{D}^{r;\Phi }_{0^{+}}(\cdot )\) is a Φ-Caputo fractional derivative of order (\(1< r\le 2\)) with respect to another function \(\Phi \in \mathcal{C}([\mathcal{J}, \mathbb{R}])\) such that \(\Phi ^{\prime }(t)>0\), for all \(t\in \mathcal{J}\), \(\alpha _{1}\ge \alpha _{2}>0\), \(\delta _{\Phi }= ( \frac{1}{\Phi ^{\prime }(t)}\frac{d}{dt} )z(t) \) and \(f: [0, \xi ]\times \mathbb{R}^{3}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) is a given continuous function.
Remark 1.1
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i.
Observe that, if \(\alpha _{1}=\alpha _{2}=1\) and \(\Phi (t)=t\), problems (1.4) and coincide with Caputo fractional differential equation considered in [8] and [1, 3, 14] respectively.
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ii.
If \(\Phi (t)=\ln t\) problems (1.4) and (1.5) reduce to the Caputo–Hadamard fractional differential equation [17].
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iii.
If \(\Phi (t)=t^{\sigma }\) problems (1.4) and (1.5) reduce to the Caputo–Erdélyi–Kober fractional differential equation [24].
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iv.
If \(\Phi (t)=\frac{t^{\sigma }}{\sigma }\), \(\sigma >0\) problems (1.4) and (1.5) reduce to the Caputo–Katugampola fractional differential equation [20].
To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper to discuss the existence and uniqueness of solutions for a class of nonlinear implicit fractional pantograph differential equations using Φ-Caputo fractional derivative with a more general anti-periodic boundary condition. Also, this work contributes to an improvement in the qualitative aspects of fractional calculus, boundary value problems, pantograph equations. However, the Φ-Caputo fractional and anti-periodic condition considered in this work is more general than the current ones described in the literature (see the Conclusion section for more details).
The outlined of this paper is as follows: In Sect. 2, we recall the main definitions, the Φ-Caputo fractional derivative and some theoretical results in line with the Φ-fractional operators needed in a later section. In Sect. 3, we establish a relation between the proposed problems and mixed-type integral equation with the help of a Green’s function. Besides, we investigate the existence and uniqueness of solutions using the techniques of Schaefer’s and Banach’s fixed point theorems. Some particular cases and theoretical examples are discussed, as can be seen in this section. Finally, we summarize the theoretical results in Sect. 4.
2 Preliminaries
This section recalled some basic definitions and lemmas concerning fractional operators that are essential throughout the writing of the paper.
Let \(\mathbb{E}=\mathcal{C}([\mathcal{J}, \mathbb{R}])\) be a Banach space equipped with the norm defined by
The space of all absolutely continuous real valued function on \(\mathcal{J}\) is denoted by \(\mathcal{A}\mathcal{C}([\mathcal{J}, \mathbb{R}])\). So, we define the space \(\mathcal{A}\mathcal{C}^{n}_{\Phi }([\mathcal{J}, \mathbb{R}])\) by
with the norm defined by
where \(\Phi \in \mathcal{C}^{n}([\mathcal{J}, \mathbb{R}])\), \(\Phi ^{\prime }(t)>0\) on \(\mathcal{J}\) and \(\delta _{\Phi }^{k}= \underbrace{\delta _{\Phi }\delta _{\Phi }\cdots \delta _{\Phi }}_{ \text{k-times}}\).
Definition 2.1
([21])
Let \(f\in L^{1}[a, b]\) be a function. Then the fractional operator
is referred to as a Riemann–Liouville integral of order r provided the right-hand side of (2.1) exists.
Definition 2.2
([21])
Let \(n\in \mathbb{N}\), \(r,t,a\in \mathbb{R}_{+}\) and the function \(f\in \mathcal{C}^{n}[a ,b]\). Then the fractional operator
is referred to as Caputo’s fractional derivative of order r provided that the right-hand side of (2.2) is point-wise defined on \((a, \infty )\) and \(n=[r]+1\).
Definition 2.3
([21])
Suppose \((0, b]\subset \mathbb{R}_{+}\) is a finite or infinite interval. Let \(f\in L^{1}[0, b]\) and \(\Phi (t)>0\) be monotone function on \((0, b]\) such that \(\Phi ^{\prime }(t)\in C([(0, b), \mathbb{R}])\). Then the fractional operator
is called a Φ-Riemann–Liouville fractional integral of order r of the function f with respect to another function Φ.
Definition 2.4
Let f, Φ be two function such that \(f\in \mathcal{A}\mathcal{C}^{n}_{\Phi }([\mathcal{J}, \mathbb{R}])\), \(\Phi \in \mathcal{C}^{n}([\mathcal{J}, \mathbb{R}])\), \(\Phi (t)>0\) and \(\Phi ^{\prime }(t)\neq 0\) for all \(t\in \mathcal{J}\). Then the fractional operator
is referred to as the the left-sided Φ-Caputo fractional derivative of a function f of order r with respect to another function Φ.
Lemma 2.5
([9])
Given \(f(t)=(\Phi (t)-\Phi (0))^{k}\) and \(r>0\). Then we have
Lemma 2.6
([19])
Suppose \(f\in \mathcal{A}\mathcal{C}_{\Phi }^{n}([\mathcal{J}, \mathbb{R}])\) and \(n-1< r\le n\), \(n\in\mathbb{N}\). Then
for all \(t\in \mathcal{J}\). Moreover, it for \(2< r\le 3\) yields
where \(b_{0}\), \(b_{1}\), \(b_{2}\) are arbitrary constants on \(\mathbb{R}\).
Theorem 2.7
(Schaefer’s fixed point theorem [36])
Let \(\mathcal{N}:\mathbb{E}\rightarrow \mathbb{E}\) be a completely continuous operator. Suppose that the set \(\vartheta (\mathcal{N})=\{z\in \mathbb{E}: z=\epsilon (\mathcal{N}z), \textit{for some }\epsilon \in [0, 1]\}\) is bounded, then \(\mathcal{N}\) has a fixed point.
Theorem 2.8
(Banach’s fixed point theorem [36])
Let \(\mathbb{E}\) be a complete metric space, and \(\mathcal{N}\) be a contraction on \(\mathbb{E}\). Then there exists a unique \(z\in \mathbb{E}\) such that \(\mathcal{N}(z)=z\).
3 Main results
In this section, we transform the proposed problem (1.4) into an equivalent integral equation with the help of the Green’s function. Besides, the existence and uniqueness of solutions of problem (1.4) were establish using the techniques of Schaefer’s and Banach’s fixed point theorems.
Lemma 3.1
Suppose that \(2< r\le 3\) and \(f:\mathcal{J}\times \mathbb{R}^{3}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) be a continuous function for any \(z\in \mathcal{A}\mathcal{C}^{2}_{\Phi }([\mathcal{J}, \mathbb{R}])\). A function \(z\in \mathcal{A}\mathcal{C}^{2}_{\Phi }([\mathcal{J}, \mathbb{R}])\) is a solution of the problem (1.4) if and only if z satisfies the following integral equation:
where \(\mathcal{H}(t, \tau )\) is the Green’s function described by
For the sake of simplicity, we will denote \(\mathcal{T}_{z}(t)={{}^{C}\mathcal{D}}^{r;\Phi }_{0^{+}}z(t)= f(t,z(t),z( \sigma t),\mathcal{T}_{z}(t))\), \(K_{\Phi }(\xi )=(\Phi (\xi )-\Phi (0))\) and \(K_{\Phi }(t)=( \Phi (t)-\Phi (0)) \).
Proof
Suppose \(z\in \mathcal{A}\mathcal{C}^{2}_{\Phi }([ \mathcal{J}, \mathbb{R}])\) satisfies problem (1.4), then it is enough to show that z also satisfies the integral equation (3.1). Indeed, by applying the Φ-Riemann–Liouville fractional operator to both sides of the first equation of problem (1.4) and making use of Lemma 2.6 yield
where \(b_{0}, b_{1},b_{2}\in \mathbb{R}\), are arbitrary constants to be determine. Using the facts that \({}^{C}\mathcal{D}^{p;\Phi }_{0^{+}}c=0\) (c is constant), \({}^{C}\mathcal{D}^{p;\Phi }_{0^{+}}(\Phi (t)-\Phi (0))= \frac{(\Phi (t)-\Phi (\tau ))^{1-p}}{\Gamma (2-p)}\), \({}^{C}\mathcal{D}^{p;\Phi }_{0^{+}}(\Phi (t)-\Phi (0))^{2}= \frac{2(\Phi (t)-\Phi (\tau ))^{2-p}}{\Gamma (3-p)}\) and \({}^{C}\mathcal{D}^{p;\Phi }_{0^{+}}\mathcal{I}_{0^{+}}^{r;\Phi } \mathcal{T}_{z}(t)=\mathcal{I}_{0^{+}}^{r-p;\Phi }\mathcal{T}_{z}(t)\), we get
Similarly, \({}^{C}\mathcal{D}^{q;\Phi }_{0^{+}}(\Phi (t)-\Phi (0))=0\) (\(1< q\le 2\)), \({}^{C}\mathcal{D}^{q;\Phi }_{0^{+}}(\Phi (t)-\Phi (0))^{2}= \frac{2(\Phi (t)-\Phi (\tau ))^{2-q}}{\Gamma (3-q)}\) and \({}^{C}\mathcal{D}^{q;\Phi }_{0^{+}}\mathcal{I}_{0^{+}}^{r;\Phi } \mathcal{T}_{z}(t)=\mathcal{I}_{0^{+}}^{r-q;\Phi }\mathcal{T}_{z}(t)\) give
In view of Eq. (3.3) and the boundary condition \(\alpha _{1} z(0)+\alpha _{2} z(\xi )=0\), we have
Also, from the boundary conditions \({\alpha _{1}}{}^{C}\mathcal{D}^{p;\Phi }_{0^{+}}z(0)+{\alpha _{2}}{}^{C} \mathcal{D}^{p;\Phi }_{0^{+}}z(\xi )=0\) and \({\alpha _{1}}{}^{C}\mathcal{D}^{q;\Phi }_{0^{+}}z(0)+{\alpha _{2}}{}^{C} \mathcal{D}^{q;\Phi }_{0^{+}}z(\xi )=0\) and making use of Eqs. (3.4), (3.5), we obtain
and
Substituting \(b_{2}\) in Eq. (3.7), we get
Inserting \(b_{1}\), \(b_{2}\) in Eq. (3.6) gives
Make use of Eqs. (3.8), (3.9) and (3.10), in Eq. (3.3), we have
Thus, the result follows. The converse follows directly. □
Lemma 3.2
The Green’s function \(\mathcal{H}(t, \tau )\) defined in (3.2) fulfills the following relationships:
- \((\mathcal{A}_{1})\):
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\(\mathcal{H}(t, \tau )\) is continuous over \(\mathcal{J}\);
- \((\mathcal{A}_{2})\):
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\(\max_{t\in \mathcal{J}}\int _{0}^{\xi }\mathcal{H}(t, \tau )\Phi ^{\prime }(\tau )\,d\tau \le \Psi _{1}\), where
$$\begin{aligned} \Psi _{1} =&\frac{\alpha _{1}(\Phi (\xi )-\Phi (0))^{r}}{\Gamma (r+1)}+ \frac{\alpha _{1}\Gamma (2-p)(\Phi (\xi )-\Phi (0))^{r}}{(\alpha _{1}+\alpha _{2}) \Gamma (r-p+1)} \\ &{}+ \frac{(p+2)\Gamma (3-q)(\Phi (\xi )-\Phi (0))^{r}}{2(2-p)\Gamma (r-q+1)}. \end{aligned}$$(3.12)
Proof
\((\mathcal{A}_{1})\) follows trivially. In order to show \((\mathcal{A}_{2})\), for any \(t\in \mathcal{J}\), we have
□
3.1 Existence result
In this subsection, we use Theorem 2.7 to establish the existence of at least one solution to the problem (1.4) on \(\mathcal{J}\).
Theorem 3.3
Suppose that
- \((\mathcal{A}_{3})\) :
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There exist \(\lambda _{0},\lambda _{1},\lambda _{2}\in \mathcal{C}([ \mathcal{J}, \mathbb{R}])\) with \(\lambda _{0}^{*}=\sup_{t\in \mathcal{J}}| \lambda _{0}(t)|\), \(\lambda _{1}^{*}=\sup_{t\in \mathcal{J}}|\lambda _{1}(t)|\), \(\lambda _{2}^{*}= \sup_{t\in \mathcal{J}}|\lambda _{2}(t)|<1\), such that
$$ \bigl\vert f(t,u_{1},u_{2},u_{3}) \bigr\vert \leq \lambda _{0}(t)+\lambda _{1}(t)\bigl[ \vert u_{1} \vert + \vert u_{2} \vert \bigr]+ \lambda _{2}(t) \vert u_{3} \vert $$for any \(u_{1},u_{2},u_{3}\in \mathbb{R}\) and \(t\in \mathcal{J}\). Then the proposed problem (1.4) has at least one solution on \(\mathcal{J}\).
Proof
We viewed problem (1.4) as a fixed point problem by taking into consideration the operator \(\mathcal{N}:\mathbb{E}\rightarrow \mathbb{E}\) defined by
Obviously, it is not difficult to show that the operator \(\mathcal{N}\) is well defined and the fixed point of \(\mathcal{N}\) is the solution to the problem (1.4). Thus, using Theorem 2.7, we show that the operator \(\mathcal{N}\) has at least one fixed point.
The proof shall be given in the following manner.
Claim 1
\(\mathcal{N}\) is continuous.
Suppose that \(z_{n}\rightarrow z\) is a convergent sequence in \(\mathbb{E}\). Thus, for \(t\in \mathcal{J}\) and using assumption \((\mathcal{A}_{2})\) yields
Since \(\mathcal{T}_{z}\) is continuous, we get
Claim 2
\(\mathcal{N}\) maps bounded sets into bounded sets.
Let \(\gamma >0\), and construct a closed convex set \(z\in \mathcal{B}_{\gamma }=\{z\in \mathbb{E}: \|z\|_{\mathbb{E}}\leq \gamma \}\). Then we show that there exists \(\eta >0\) such that \(\|\mathcal{N}(z)\|_{\mathbb{E}}\leq \eta \).
Indeed, for any \(z\in \mathcal{B}_{\gamma }\),
It follows from assumption \((\mathcal{A}_{3})\) that
In view of Eqs. (3.15) and (3.16), we get
Using property \((\mathcal{A}_{2})\) and inequality (3.17) yields
Claim 3
\(\mathcal{N}\) maps a bounded set into an equicontinuous set.
Suppose \(t_{1}, t_{2}\in \mathcal{J}\) such that \(t_{2}\ge t_{1}\) and \(\mathcal{B}_{\gamma }\) as defined in Claim 2, above. So, for any \(z\in \mathcal{B}_{\gamma }\), we obtain
Hence, as a consequence of the Arzelá–Ascoli theorem and Claims 1–3, the operator \(\mathcal{N}\) is completely continuous.
Claim 4
\(\mathcal{N}\) is a priori bounded.
Now, consider the set
Then it is enough to show that ϑ is bounded.
Indeed, for any \(z\in \vartheta \), \(z=\varepsilon (\mathcal{N}z)\) where \(0<\varepsilon <1\), we have
It follows from \((\mathcal{A}_{2})\) and inequality (3.16) that, for each \(t\in \mathcal{J}\),
Thus, the set ϑ is bounded. As a result of Theorem 2.7, the operator \(\mathcal{N}\) has at least one fixed point. Thus, we conclude that problem (1.4) has at least one solution on \(\mathcal{J}\). □
3.2 Uniqueness result
This subsection gives a detail proof of the uniqueness of solution of problem (1.4) by applying the concept of Banach contraction principle.
Theorem 3.4
Suppose that we have the hypotheses:
- \((\mathcal{A}_{4})\):
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There exist constants \(\mathcal{K}_{1},\mathcal{K}_{2}>0\) such that
$$ \begin{aligned} \bigl\vert f(t,u_{1},u_{2},u_{3})-f(t, \bar{u}_{1},\bar{u}_{2}, \bar{u}_{3}) \bigr\vert \leq{}& \mathcal{K}_{1}\bigl( \vert u_{1}- \bar{u}_{1} \vert + \vert u_{2}- \bar{u}_{2} \vert \bigr) \\ &{}+\mathcal{K}_{2} \vert u_{3}-\bar{u}_{3} \vert \end{aligned} $$for any \(u_{1},u_{2},u_{3},\bar{u}_{1},\bar{u}_{2},\bar{u}_{3}\in \mathbb{R}\) and \(t\in \mathcal{J}\).
- \((\mathcal{A}_{5})\):
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We assume
$$ \biggl( \frac{2\mathcal{K}_{1}}{1-\mathcal{K}_{2}} \biggr)\Psi _{1}< 1, $$where \(\Psi _{1}\) is given by (3.12). If there exists a solution of the proposed problem (1.4), it is unique.
Proof
Consider the operator \(\mathcal{N}\) as defined in (3.13). Let \(z_{1},z_{2}\in \mathbb{E}\) and \(t\in \mathcal{J}\), then we obtain
and
By substituting inequality (3.22) in (3.21), we get
Thus,
In view of \((\mathcal{A}_{5})\), this that \(\mathcal{N}\) is a contraction and hence has a unique fixed point. Therefore, as a consequences of Theorem 2.8, the proposed problem (1.4) has a unique solution on \(\mathcal{J}\). □
The Φ-Caputo fractional derivative as described Definition 2.4 comprises, as special cases, certain specific forms (definitions) of fractional derivatives. Thus, the nonlinear implicit fractional pantograph differential equation (1.4) that we have just proposed also incorporates, as special cases, equivalent nonlinear Cauchy problems for certain forms of fractional derivatives (see Remark 1.1). Besides, the results we have just established on the existence and uniqueness of its solution also apply to special cases. These classes of derivatives are obtained based on the choices of the arbitrary function \(\Phi (\cdot )\) and the parameters \(\alpha _{1}\), \(\alpha _{2}\).
Case 1: [8] Set \(\alpha _{1}=\alpha _{2}=1\) and \(\Phi (t)=t\). Then the Green’s function defined in (3.2) takes the form
and
Corollary 3.5
Suppose that the assumption \((\mathcal{A}_{3})\) holds. Then the proposed problem (1.4) has at least one solution on \(\mathcal{J}\).
Corollary 3.6
Assume that hypothesis \((\mathcal{A}_{4})\) holds. If
where \(\Psi _{1}^{*}\) is defined by (3.26). If there exists a solution of the proposed problem (1.4), it is unique on \(\mathcal{J}\).
Case 2: Let \(\alpha _{1}\ne \alpha _{2}>1\) and \(\Phi (t)=t\), then the Green’s function defined in (3.2) reduces to
and
Corollary 3.7
Suppose that the assumption \((\mathcal{A}_{3})\) holds. Then the proposed problem (1.4) has at least one solution on \(\mathcal{J}\).
Corollary 3.8
Assume that hypothesis \((\mathcal{A}_{4})\) holds. If
where \(\Psi _{1}^{**}\) is defined by (3.28), and if there exists a solution of the proposed problem (1.4), it is unique on \(\mathcal{J}\).
Lemma 3.9
Let \(1< r\le 2\) and \(f: \mathcal{J}\times \mathbb{R}^{3}\) be a continuous function for any \(z\in \mathcal{A}\mathcal{C}^{2}_{\Phi }([\mathcal{J}, \mathbb{R}])\). A function \(z\in \mathcal{A}\mathcal{C}^{2}_{\Phi }([\mathcal{J}, \mathbb{R}])\) is a solution of problem (1.5) if and only if z satisfies the following integral equation:
where \(\mathcal{W}(t, \tau )\) is a Green’s function of the form
Proof
The proof is a partial case of Lemma 3.1, so we omit the proof. □
Lemma 3.10
The Green’s function \(\mathcal{W}(t, \tau )\) defined in (3.30) adhere to the following conditions:
- \((\mathcal{A}_{6})\):
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\(\mathcal{W}(t, \tau )\) is continuous over \(\mathcal{J}\);
- \((\mathcal{A}_{7})\):
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\(\max_{t\in \mathcal{J}}\int _{0}^{\xi }\mathcal{W}(t, \tau )\Phi ^{\prime }(\tau )\,d\tau \le \Psi _{2}\), where
$$ \Psi _{2}= \frac{[(\alpha _{1}+2\alpha _{2})(\alpha _{1}+\alpha _{2})+\alpha _{2}^{2}r]}{(\alpha _{1}+\alpha _{2})^{2}\Gamma (r+1)}\bigl( \Phi (\xi )-\Phi (0)\bigr)^{r}. $$(3.31)
Proof
Obviously, for any \(t\in \mathcal{J}\), the Green’s function \(\mathcal{W}(t, \tau )\) is continuous. Thus, \((\mathcal{A}_{6})\) follows.
In order to prove \((\mathcal{A}_{7})\), for any \(t\in \mathcal{J}\), we write
Hence, we have the desired result. □
Theorem 3.11
Suppose that the assumption \((\mathcal{A}_{3})\) holds. Then the proposed problem (1.5) has at least one solution.
Proof
Repeating the analysis in Theorem 3.3, the proof follows. □
Theorem 3.12
Assume that hypothesis \((\mathcal{A}_{4})\) holds and
where \(\Psi _{2}\) is defined by (3.31), then, if there exists a solution of (1.5), it is unique on \(\mathcal{J}\).
Proof
Repeating the analysis in Theorem 3.4, the proof follows. □
Now we present some special cases of the proposed problem (1.5) based on the choice of the arbitrary function Φ and parameters \(\alpha _{1}\), \(\alpha _{2}\).
Case 3: [2, 3, 14] Let \(\alpha _{1}=\alpha _{2}=1\) and \(\Phi (t)=t\). Then the Green’s function defined in (3.30) reduces to
and
Corollary 3.13
Suppose that the assumption \((\mathcal{A}_{3})\) holds. Then the proposed problem (1.5) has at least one solution on \(\mathcal{J}\).
Corollary 3.14
Assume that hypothesis \((\mathcal{A}_{4})\) holds. If
where \(\Psi _{2}^{*}\) is defined by (3.34). If there exists a solution of (1.5), it is unique on \(\mathcal{J}\).
Moreover, if \(r=2\) the Green’s function defined in (3.30) reduces to [33]
Case 4: Suppose \(\alpha _{1}\ne \alpha _{2}>1\) and \(\Phi (t)=t\), then the Green’s function defined in (3.30) takes the form
and
Corollary 3.15
Suppose that assumption \((\mathcal{A}_{3})\) holds. Then the proposed problem (1.5) has at least one solution on \(\mathcal{J}\).
Corollary 3.16
Assume that hypothesis \((\mathcal{A}_{4})\) holds. If
where \(\Psi _{2}^{**}\) is defined by (3.36), if there exists a solution of (1.5), it is unique on \(\mathcal{J}\).
3.3 Examples
Example 3.17
Consider the IFPBVPs of the form
Comparing (1.4) with (3.37) yields \(r=\frac{7}{3}\), \(p=\frac{1}{3}\), \(q=\frac{5}{3}\), \(\xi =1\), and \(\sigma =\frac{2}{7}\). Also from the boundary conditions we can see that \(\alpha _{1}=2\) and \(\alpha _{2}=4\). Here, the function \(f: \mathcal{J}\times \mathbb{R}^{3}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) defined by
is continuous and
so condition \((\mathcal{A}_{3})\) is satisfied with \(\lambda _{0}(t)=\lambda _{1}(t)=\lambda _{2}(t)=\frac{1}{(t+2)^{4}}\) and \(\lambda _{0}^{*}=\lambda _{1}^{*}=\lambda _{2}^{*}=\frac{1}{16}\). Thus, in view of Theorem 3.3, problem (3.37) has at least one solution on \(\mathcal{J}\).
In addition, for \(u_{1},u_{2},u_{3},\bar{u}_{1},\bar{u}_{2},\bar{u}_{1}\in \mathbb{R}_{+}\) and \(t\in \mathcal{J}\),
Hence, \((\mathcal{A}_{4})\) is satisfied with \(\mathcal{K}_{1}=\mathcal{K}_{2}=\frac{1}{16}\). Let us denote \(\Phi (t)=t+1\). Obviously, Φ is an increasing function on \([0, 1]\) and \(\Phi ^{\prime }(t)=1\) is a continuous on \([0, 1]\). Furthermore, by simple computation, we get \(\Psi _{1}\approx 1.5628>0\) and
which implies that hypothesis \((\mathcal{A}_{5})\) is satisfied. Hence, it follows from Theorem 3.4 that problem (3.37) has a unique solution on \(\mathcal{J}\).
Example 3.18
Let IFPBVPs be described by
By comparing (3.38) with (1.5), we get \(r=\frac{5}{3}\), \(\alpha _{1}=2\), \(\alpha _{2}=3\), \(\sigma =\frac{2}{7}\), \(\xi =1\) and let us denote \(\Phi (t)=t^{2}+3t+1\). This implies that \(\Phi (t)\) is an increasing function on \([0, 1]\) and \(\Phi ^{\prime }(t)=2t+3\ne 0\), is continuous for all \(t\in [0, 1]\). Moreover, the function \(f: \mathcal{J}\times \mathbb{R}^{3}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) defined by
is continuous and
which implies that \((\mathcal{A}_{3})\) is satisfied with \(\lambda _{0}(t)=\frac{3}{(65e^{t}+\cos { 2t})}\), \(\lambda _{1}(t)=\lambda _{2}(t)=\frac{1}{(65e^{t}+\cos { 2t})}\) and \(\lambda _{0}^{*}=\frac{3}{66}\), \(\lambda _{1}^{*}=\lambda _{2}^{*}=\frac{1}{66}\). Hence, problem (3.38) has at least one solution on \(\mathcal{J}\), since all the assumptions of Theorem 3.11 hold.
In addition, for all \(u_{1},u_{2},u_{3},\bar{u}_{1},\bar{u}_{2},\bar{u}_{3}\in \mathbb{R}_{+}\) and \(t\in \mathcal{J}\),
Hence, hypothesis \((\mathcal{A}_{4})\) is satisfied with \(\mathcal{K}_{1}=\mathcal{K}_{2}=\frac{1}{66}\). Thus, by simplification this gives \(\Psi _{2}\approx 14.7379>0\) and
Therefore, as a result of Theorem 3.12, problem (3.38) has a unique solution on \(\mathcal{J}\).
4 Conclusions
Nonlinear analysis is one of the best methods to analyze the applied problems. In this paper, we were able to obtain an equivalent integral equation by formulating the Green’s functions of the proposed problems (1.4) and (1.5). With the help of Schaefer’s and Banach’s fixed point theorems, we investigated the existence and uniqueness of solutions to the proposed problems (1.4) and (1.5). In addition:
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The results obtained in this paper generalized those obtained from the work of [1–3, 8, 14, 33], (see, respectively, Corollaries 3.5, 3.6, 3.13 and 3.14).
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For \(\Phi (t)=t\) and taking \(\alpha _{1}\ne \alpha _{2}>1\), we constructed the Green’s function of problems (1.4)–(1.5) and the existence and uniqueness of solutions were presented, (see respectively, Corollaries 3.7, 3.8, 3.15 and 3.16).
In this context, we conclude that the results obtained in this paper are new and concern results widespread in the literature and this achievement can be regarded as a contribution to the improvement of the qualitative aspect of fractional calculus. An interesting extension of the proposed problems (1.4) and (1.5) would be to investigate the positive solutions and stability analysis.
Abbreviations
- IFPBVPs:
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implicit fractional pantograph boundary value problems
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The authors acknowledge the financial support provided by the Center of Excellence in Theoretical and Computational Science (TaCS-CoE), KMUTT. The first and the sixth authors were supported by “Petchra Pra Jom Klao Ph.D. Research Scholarship from King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi” (Grant No. 13/2561). Furthermore, Wiyada Kumam was financial supported by the Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi (RMUTTT) (Grant No. NSF62D0604). Moreover, the authors express their gratitude for the positive comments received from anonymous reviewers and the editors, which have improved the readability and correctness of the paper.
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Ahmed, I., Kumam, P., Abdeljawad, T. et al. Existence and uniqueness results for Φ-Caputo implicit fractional pantograph differential equation with generalized anti-periodic boundary condition. Adv Differ Equ 2020, 555 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13662-020-03008-x
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