Abstract

The Hyers–Ulam stability of multi-coefficients Pexider additive functional inequalities in Banach spaces is investigated. In order to do this, the fixed point method and the direct method are used.

1. Introduction and Preliminaries

For an object possessing some properties only approximately in mathematics and in many other scientific investigations, can one find the special object satisfied them truly? One of the effective methods to solve this problem is to use the concept of generalized Hyers–Ulam stability.

Let us review the definition of Hyers–Ulam stability. In a class of mappings, if each mapping of this class fulfilling the equation approximately is “near” to its real solution or stable approximate solution, then the equation is said to be Hyers–Ulam stability.

The stability problem of functional equations is from a question of Ulam [1] in 1940, that is, the stability of metric group homomorphisms. In 1941, Hyers [2] gave the first affirmative answer to the question of Ulam for Banach spaces about the Cauchy functional equation. Hyers’ method of proof is called the “direct method.” The functional equationis called an additive functional equation. More generalizations and applications of the Hyers–Ulam stability to a number of functional equations and mappings can be found in [310].

In 2013, Li et al. [11] investigated the generalized Hyers–Ulam stability of the following function inequalities:in quasi-Banach spaces. In the paper, assume that is a linear space over the field , and is a linear space over the field . Let and be given scalars.

The functional equationis called a Pexider additive functional equation (for more details, see [1223]). In the paper, we introduce and investigate the following functional equation:where . The stability problems of several functional inequalities have been extensively investigated by a number of authors (see [2447]).

In order to find the stability of (4), the following fixed point theory would be applied.

Theorem 1 (see [48, 49]). Let be a complete generalized metric space and let be a strictly contractive mapping with Lipschitz constant . Then for each given element , eitherfor all nonnegative integers or there exists a positive integer such that(1), for all (2)The sequence converges to a fixed point of (3) is the unique fixed point of in the set (4) for all

2. Hyers–Ulam Stability of Functional Inequality (4): A Fixed Point Method

Theorem 2. Suppose that is a Banach space and is a function such that there exists an with

If are mappings satisfying andthen there exists a unique solution of (4) such that

Proof. Letting in (7), we get . Letting in (7), we obtainfor all . Thus,Letting in (7), we haveThus,Next, replacing by and by in (7), we getThus,Letting in (16), we getfor all .
Consider the setand introduce the generalized metric on :Then will be proved to be complete. Let and ; by the definition of and property of infimum, satisfies the triangle inequality. Suppose that is -Cauchy sequence on . That is, for any , , , such that . By the definition of , it is easy to see that is a Cauchy sequence in . Since is complete, there exist and . Taking the limit as , we get , for all , such that is -convergent, i.e., is a complete generalized metric (for more details, we refer to [48]).
Now, we consider the linear mapping such thatfor all .
Let be given such that . Then,for all . Hence,for all . So, implies that . This means thatfor all .
It follows from (17) thatfor all . So, .
By Theorem 1, there exists a mapping satisfying the following:(1) is a fixed point of , i.e.,for all . The mapping is a unique fixed point of in the setThis implies that is a unique mapping satisfying (45) such that there exists a satisfyingfor all .(2) as . This implies the equalityfor all .(3), which impliesfor all .
It follows from (16) and (28) thatSo, the mapping is additive. Next, by (8), (29) can be proved. Similarly, we can obtain inequalities (9) and (10).

Corollary 3. Let and be nonnegative real numbers and be mappings satisfyingfor all and . Then there exists a unique additive mapping such that

Theorem 4. Let be a function such that there exists an withfor all . Let be mappings satisfying (7) for all and . Then there exists a unique additive mapping such that

Corollary 5. Let and be nonnegative real numbers and be mappings satisfying (31) for all and . Then there exists a unique additive mapping such that

3. Hyers–Ulam Stability of Functional Inequality (4): A Direct Method

Using the direct method, we prove the Hyers–Ulam stability of functional inequality (4).

Theorem 6. Assume that is a Banach space and with satisfy the inequalitywhere satisfiesfor all . Then there exists a unique additive mapping such that

Proof. Letting in (38), we get . So, .
Letting in (38), we getfor all . Thus,for all .
Letting in (38), we getfor all . In (43), replacing by , we getBy the same way, from (38), we have the following inequality:From (42), (44), and (45), it follows thatwhere .
It follows from (46) thatfor all nonnegative integers and with and all . It means that the sequence is a Cauchy sequence for all . Since is complete, the sequence converges. We define the mapping byfor all . Moreover, letting and passing to the limit , we getSimilarly, there exists a mapping such that andfor all .
We also obtain a mapping such that , andNext, we show that is an additive mapping.for all . Thus, the mapping is additive.
Now, we prove the uniqueness of . Assume that is another additive mapping satisfying (40). We obtainwhich tends to zero as for all . Then we can conclude that for all . In fact, by (42), we get . Similarly, we obtain .

Corollary 7. Let and be positive real numbers with . Let be mappings with satisfyingfor all . Then there exists a unique additive mapping such that

4. Conclusion

In this paper, we have investigated the Hyers–Ulam stability of general Pexider function inequalities in Banach spaces by using the fixed point method and the direct method.

Data Availability

No data were used to support this study.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

Authors’ Contributions

The authors equally conceived the study, participated in its design and coordination, drafted the manuscript, participated in the sequence alignment, and read and approved the final manuscript. Y. Liu conceptualized the study, developed the research question, oversaw the overall progress of the study, managed the collaboration, wrote the initial draft of the manuscript, and integrated feedback from co-authors. G. Lyu assisted in developing the methodology and research design, conducted the literature review and contributed significantly to the theoretical framework, performed data collection and carried out preliminary data analysis, and reviewed and provided substantive edits to subsequent versions of the manuscript. Y. Jin designed and implemented the statistical models for data analysis, interpreted the results, wrote the results section, participated in drafting the discussion and conclusion sections, and secured funding for the project. J. Yang proposed the application of innovative techniques used in the study, contributed to writing the methods section, supported data validation, and critically reviewed the manuscript for intellectual content and clarity.

Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (no. 11761074), Project of Jilin Science and Technology Development for Leading Talent of Science and Technology Innovation in Middle and Young and Team Project (no. 20200301053RQ), Natural Science Foundation of Jilin Province (no. YDZJ202101ZYTS136), and Scientific Research Project of Guangzhou College of Technology and Business in 2023 (no. KYPY2023012).