Monotone Iterative Method for Two Types of Integral Boundary Value Problems of a Nonlinear Fractional Differential System with Deviating Arguments

Chen, Jungang; Qin, Xi

doi:https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/6650811

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Volume 2021 | Article ID 6650811 | https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/6650811

Monotone Iterative Method for Two Types of Integral Boundary Value Problems of a Nonlinear Fractional Differential System with Deviating Arguments

Jungang Chen^1,2and Xi Qin³

Academic Editor: Hijaz Ahmad

Received03 Dec 2020

Revised17 Dec 2020

Accepted26 Dec 2020

Published13 Jan 2021

Abstract

This paper concerns on two types of integral boundary value problems of a nonlinear fractional differential system, ., nonlocal strip integral boundary value problems and coupled integral boundary value problems. With the aid of the monotone iterative method combined with the upper and lower solutions, the existence of extremal system of solutions for the above two types of differential systems is investigated. In addition, a new comparison theorem for fractional differential system is also established, which is crucial for the proof of the main theorem of this paper. At the end, an example explaining how our studies can be used is also given.

1. Introduction

Differential equations with integral boundary conditions have been applied in many fields such as thermoelasticity, blood flow phenomena, and groundwater systems. For specific details, readers interested in this topic can see papers [1–6] and the references therein. In addition, the advantages of fractional derivatives make fractional differential equations a hot topic. At present, it exhibits great vitality and splendor in a number of applications of interest such as biophysics, hemodynamics, complex media circuit analysis and simulation, control optimization theory, and earthquake prediction models. For more details, refer to books in [7–12]. For the latest developments and trends, refer to [13–24]. Fractional differential system, as an important branch of differential system, is attracting more and more scholars research interest, which comes from its good practical application background (see [25–32]).

In [25], by applying the monotone iterative method, Wang, Agarwal, and Cabada investigated the existence of extremal solutions for a nonlinear Riemann–Liouville fractional differential system:where and .

In [32], Ahmad and Nieto studied a three point-coupled nonlinear Riemann–Liouville fractional differential system given bywhere . By using the Schauder fixed-point theorem, the authors successfully obtained the existence of solution of the system.

Inspired by these papers, we concern on the following nonlinear Riemann–Liouville fractional differential system of order :where , , . Notice that our system contains the unknown functions and deviating arguments .

In order to approximate the solution of the nonlinear Riemann–Liouville fractional differential system mentioned above, we firstly give a new comparison result for fractional differential system. Also, we develop the monotone iterative technique for the system. The advantage of the technique needs no special emphasis [33–40]. It is worth to point that, in this paper, only half pair of upper and lower solutions is assumed to the system, which is weaker than a pair of upper and lower solutions. It is believed that this is also an attempt to apply the monotone iterative method to solve nonlinear Riemann–Liouville fractional differential systems with deviating arguments and families of nonlocal coupled and strip integral boundary conditions.

To this end, we study the following two types of integral boundary conditions:(i)Nonlocal coupled integral boundary conditions of the form: where and . In the present study, nonlocal type of integral boundary condition with limits of integration involving the parameters has been introduced. It is worth mentioning that, in practical situations, such nonlocal integral boundary conditions may be regarded as a continuous distribution of arbitrary finite length; for instance, refer to [41].(ii)Nonlocal strip condition of the form:where and .

In fact, nonlocal strip condition is used to describe a continuous distribution of the values of the unknown function on an arbitrary finite segment of the interval. If , the condition is degenerated to a classic integral boundary condition (see [42] for details).

2. Comparison Theorem: The Unique Solution of Linear System

Letwith the norm

Next, we provide a comparison result from Wang’s paper [43]. Notice that the comparison result is valid for which is a nonnegative bounded integrable function.

Lemma 1. Letbe locally Hölder continuous, andsatisfieswhereis a nonnegative bounded integrable function and satisfies. Then,.

Now, we are in a position to prove the following new comparison result for fractional differential system.

Lemma 2 (comparison theorem). Letbe locally Hölder continuous and satisfywhereare nonnegative bounded integrable functions and.

Ifthen .

Proof. Put . Then, by (9), we haveThus, by (11) and Lemma 1, we have thatNext, we show that .
In fact, by (9) and (12), we have thatBy (13) and Lemma 1, we have that . Similarly, we can show that .

Finally, we consider the linear system:where are nonnegative bounded integrable functions .

Lemma 3. If10holds, then the problem14has a unique system of solutions in.

Proof. Letwhere and solve the problemsandIt is obvious that the problems (16) and (17) have the unique solution , respectively. Since are unique, then by (14) and (15), we can show that the problem (14) has a unique system of solutions in .

3. Extremal Solutions of Nonlinear System

Theorem 1. Assume that the following holds:
There exist two locally Hölder continuous functions satisfying such that

There exist nonnegative bounded integrable functionswhich satisfy (10), and, such thatwhere .

Then, (3) and (4) have extremal systems of solutions. Moreover, there exist monotone iterative sequencessuch thatuniformly on compact subsets ofand

Proof. For any , , considering (14) withwe haveBy Lemma 3, we know that (22) has a unique system of solutions in .
Now, we show that satisfyLet . By condition and (22), we have thatThus, by Lemma 2, we have that .
Let , by condition and (22), we getBesides,By Lemma 1, we can get . Therefore, we have the relation .
Assume that , for some . Then, using the same way as above, by Lemmas 1 and 2 again, we can obtain . By induction, it is not difficult to show thatEmploying the standard arguments, we haveuniformly on compact subsets of , and satisfy (3) and (4). Letting in (3.15), we get that is solutions of (3) and (4) in and (20) holds.
Finally, we prove that is extremal solutions of (3) and (4) in . If is any solutions of (3) and (4), which meansBy (22), (29), , and Lemma 2, it is easy to prove thatTaking the limits in (30), we get , which implies is extremal solutions of (3) and (4) in .
This completes the proof.

We give the following assumption for convenience.

There exist two locally Hölder continuous functions satisfying such that

By a proof similar to Theorem 1, we have the following.

Theorem 2. Suppose that conditions and hold. Then, (3) and (5) have extremal system of solutions. Moreover, there exist monotone iterative sequencessuch thatuniformly on compact subsets ofand

4. Example

Consider the following problem:where , and is the standard Riemann–Liouville fractional derivative.

Clearly,where .

Taking , it is easy to show that condition of Theorem 2 holds.

On the contrary, we havewhere .

We see , and . So, holds.

Thus, Theorem 2 is applied to the system (33), and we have the conclusion of Theorem 2.

5. Conclusion

In this paper, by employing the method of upper and lower solutions combined with the monotone iterative technique, we studied a class of nonlinear fractional differential system involving nonlocal strip and coupled integral boundary conditions. Precisely, we considered the following nonlinear Riemann–Liouville fractional differential system:with two types of integral boundary conditions:(i)Nonlocal coupled integral boundary conditions of the form:(ii)Nonlocal strip condition of the form:

We investigated the existence of extremal system of solutions for the above nonlinear fractional differential system involving nonlocal strip and coupled integral boundary conditions. A new comparison result for fractional differential system was also established, which played an important role in the proof of our main results. It is a contribution to the field of fractional differential system. As an extension of our conclusion, we present an open question, namely, how to develop the existence of extremal system of solutions for the above nonlinear fractional differential system with impulsive effect by the method of upper and lower solutions combined with the monotone iterative technique. The biggest difficulty for this is to perfectly establish new comparison result for fractional differential system with impulsive effect.

Data Availability

No data were used to support this study.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

Acknowledgments

This work was sponsored by K. C. Wong Magna Fund in Ningbo University.

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