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Positive solutions to nonlinear first-order impulsive dynamic equations on time scales
Advances in Difference Equations volume 2015, Article number: 60 (2015)
Abstract
By using the classical fixed point theorem for operators on a cone, in this paper, some results of single and multiple positive solutions to a class of nonlinear first-order periodic boundary value problems of impulsive dynamic equations on time scales are obtained. It is worth noticing that the nonlinearity f and the pulse function in this paper are not positive.
1 Introduction
The theory of dynamic equations on time scales has been a new important mathematical branch [1–3] since it was initiated by Hilger [4]. At the same time, the boundary value problems of impulsive dynamic equations on time scales have received considerable attention [5–21] since the theory of impulsive differential equations is much richer than the corresponding theory of differential equations without impulse effects [22–24].
In [18], by using the Guo-Krasnoselskii fixed point theorem, when the nonlinearity f and the pulse function are positive, Wang considered the existence of one or two positive solutions to the following PBVPs of impulsive dynamic equations on time scales:
In [20], by using the Schaefer fixed point theorem, Wang and Weng obtained the existence of at least one solution to the problem (1.1).
Motivated by the results mentioned above, in this paper, we shall obtain the existence of single and multiplicity positive solutions to the problem (1.1) where \(\mathbb{T}\) is an arbitrary time scale, \(T>0\) is fixed, \(0,T\in\mathbb{T}\), \(f\in C ( J\times [ 0,\infty ) ,\mathbb{R} ) \), \(I_{k}\in C ( [ 0,\infty ) ,\mathbb{R} ) \), \(p: [ 0,T ]_{\mathbb{T}}\rightarrow(0,\infty)\) is right-dense continuous, \(t_{k}\in ( 0,T )_{\mathbb{T}}\), \(0< t_{1}<\cdots<t_{m}<T\), and for each \(k=1,2,\ldots,m\), \(x(t_{k}^{+})=\lim_{h\rightarrow0^{+}}x(t_{k}+h)\) and \(x(t_{k}^{-})=\lim_{h\rightarrow0^{-}}x(t_{k}+h)\) which represent the right and left limits of \(x(t)\) at \(t=t_{k}\). The main tool used in this paper is the classical fixed point theorem for operators on a cone.
It is worth noticing that: (i) The nonlinearity f and the pulse function in this paper are not positive, so our hypotheses on the nonlinearity f and the pulse function are weaker than condition of [18]. (ii) For the case \(I_{k}(x)\equiv0\), \(k=1,2,\ldots,m \), the problem (1.1) reduces to the problem studied by [25, 26]; for the case \(p(t)=0 \), the problem (1.1) reduces to the problem studied by [12, 19]; for the case \(p(t)=0\) and \(\mathbb{T}=\mathbb {Z}\), the problem (1.1) reduces to the problem studied by [27]. This paper’s ideas come from [28].
Throughout this work, we assume the knowledge of time scales and time-scale notation, first introduced by Hilger [4]. For more information on time scales, please see the texts by Bohner and Peterson [2, 3].
In the remainder of this section, we state the following fixed point theorem [29].
Theorem 1.1
[29]
Let X be a Banach space and K is a cone in X. Assume \(\Omega_{1}\), \(\Omega_{2}\) are open subsets of X with \(0\in \Omega_{1}\), \(\overline{\Omega}_{1}\subset\Omega_{2}\). Let
be a continuous and completely continuous operator such that
-
(i)
\(\Vert \Phi x\Vert \leq \Vert x\Vert \) for \(x\in K\cap \partial\Omega_{1}\);
-
(ii)
there exists \(e\in K\setminus\{0\}\) such that \(x\neq\Phi x+\lambda e\) for \(x\in K\cap\partial\Omega_{2}\) and \(\lambda>0\).
Then Φ has a fixed point in \(K\cap(\overline{\Omega}_{2}\setminus \Omega_{1})\).
Remark 1.1
In Theorem 1.1, if (i) and (ii) are replaced by
-
(i)
\(\Vert \Phi x\Vert \leq \Vert x\Vert \) for \(x\in K\cap \partial\Omega_{2}\);
-
(ii)
there exists \(e\in K\setminus\{0\}\) such that \(x\neq\Phi x+\lambda e\) for \(x\in K\cap\partial\Omega_{1}\) and \(\lambda>0\),
then Φ has also a fixed point in \(K\cap(\overline{\Omega}_{2}\setminus\Omega_{1})\).
2 Main results
Throughout the rest of this paper, we always assume that the points of impulse \(t_{k}\) are right-dense for each \(k=1,2,\ldots,m\).
We define
where \(x_{k}\) is the restriction of x to \(J_{k}= \left .( t_{k},t_{k+1} ] \right ._{\mathbb{T}}\subset \left .(0,\sigma(T)] \right ._{\mathbb{T}}\), \(k=1,2,\ldots,m\), and \(J_{0}=[0,t_{1}]_{\mathbb{T}}\), \(t_{m+1}=\sigma(T)\).
Let
with the norm \(\Vert x\Vert =\sup_{ t\in[0,\sigma (T)]_{\mathbb{T}}}\vert x(t)\vert \), then X is a Banach space.
Lemma 2.1
[18]
Suppose \(h:[0,T]_{\mathbb{T}}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) is rd-continuous, then x is a solution of
where
if and only if x is a solution of the boundary value problem
Lemma 2.2
Let \(G(t,s)\) be defined as in Lemma 2.1, then
Remark 2.1
Let \(G(t,s)\) be defined as in Lemma 2.1, then \(\int_{0}^{\sigma(T)}G(t,s)p(s)\triangle s=1\).
Let
where \(\delta=\frac{A}{B}\in(0,1)\). It is not difficult to verify that K is a cone in X.
For convenience, we denote
Now we state our main results.
Theorem 2.1
Suppose there exist \(0<\alpha<\beta\) such that
Then the problem (1.1) has at least one positive solution if one of the following two conditions holds:
-
(i)
\(f_{\alpha}+A\sum_{k=1}^{m}I_{\alpha}(k)\geq1\), \(f^{\beta}+B\sum_{k=1}^{m}I^{\beta}(k)\leq1\);
-
(ii)
\(f^{\alpha}+B\sum_{k=1}^{m}I^{\alpha}(k)\leq1\), \(f_{\beta}+A\sum_{k=1}^{m}I_{\beta}(k)\geq1\).
Proof
We define an operator \(\Phi:K\rightarrow X\) by
It is obvious that fixed points of Φ are solutions of the problem (1.1). Similar to [18], \(\Phi:K\rightarrow X\) is completely continuous.
Define the open sets
Firstly, we claim that \(\Phi:K\cap(\overline{\Omega}_{2}\setminus \Omega _{1})\rightarrow K\).
In fact, for any \(x\in K\cap(\overline{\Omega}_{2}\setminus\Omega _{1})\), we have \(\delta\alpha\leq x\leq\beta\), by Lemma 2.2
and
So
Therefore, \(\Phi:K\cap(\overline{\Omega}_{2}\setminus\Omega _{1})\rightarrow K\).
Secondly, we prove the result provided condition (i) holds.
Since
Let \(e\equiv1\), then \(e\in K\). We assert that
If not, there would exist \(x_{0}\in K\cap\partial\Omega_{1}\) and \(\lambda _{0}>0 \) such that \(x_{0}=\Phi x_{0}+\lambda_{0}e\).
Since \(x_{0}\in K\cap\partial\Omega_{1}\), then \(\delta\alpha=\delta \Vert x_{0}\Vert \leq x_{0}(t)\leq\alpha\). Let \(\mu=\min_{t\in[0,\sigma (T)]_{\mathbb{T}}}x_{0}(t)\), then for any \(t\in[0,\sigma(T)]_{\mathbb{T}}\), by the first inequality of (i) we have
This implies that \(\mu\geq\mu+\lambda_{0}\), and this is a contradiction. Therefore (2.1) holds.
On the other hand, by using the second inequality of (i), we have
We assert that
In fact, for any \(x\in K\cap\partial\Omega_{2}\), then \(\delta\beta =\delta \Vert x\Vert \leq x(t)\leq\beta\), we have
Therefore, \(\Vert \Phi x\Vert \leq \Vert x\Vert \).
It follows from Remark 1.1, (2.1), and (2.2) that Φ has a fixed point \(x\in K\cap(\overline{\Omega}_{2}\setminus\Omega_{1})\).
In a similar way, we can prove the result by Theorem 1.1 if condition (ii) holds. □
Theorem 2.2
Suppose there exist \(0<\alpha<\rho<\beta\) such that
Then the problem (1.1) has at least two positive solution if one of the following two conditions holds:
-
(i)
\(f_{\alpha}+A\sum_{k=1}^{m}I_{\alpha}(k)\geq1\), \(f^{\rho}+B\sum_{k=1}^{m}I^{\rho}(k)<1\), \(f_{\beta}+A\sum_{k=1}^{m}I_{\beta}(k)\geq1\);
-
(ii)
\(f^{\alpha}+B\sum_{k=1}^{m}I^{\alpha}(k)\leq1\), \(f_{\rho}+A\sum_{k=1}^{m}I_{\rho}(k)>1\), \(f^{\beta}+B\sum_{k=1}^{m}I^{\beta}(k)\leq1\).
Proof
We only prove the result when condition (i) holds. In a similar way we can obtain the result if condition (ii) holds.
Define \(\Omega_{1}\), \(\Omega_{2}\) as in Theorem 2.1 and define
Similar to the proof of Theorem 2.1, we can prove that
where \(e\equiv1\in K\), and
Thus we can obtain the existence of two positive solutions \(x_{1}\) and \(x_{2}\) by using Theorem 1.1 and Remark 1.1, respectively. It is easy to see that \(\alpha\leq \Vert x_{1}\Vert <\rho<\Vert x_{2}\Vert \leq \beta\). □
Theorem 2.3
Suppose that there exist positive \(0<\alpha _{1}<\beta _{1}<\alpha_{2}<\beta_{2}<\cdots<\alpha_{n}<\beta_{n}\) such that
Then the problem (1.1) has at least n positive solutions \(x_{i}\) (\(1\leq i\leq n\)) satisfying \(\alpha_{i}\leq \Vert x_{i}\Vert \leq \beta_{i}\), \(1\leq i\leq n\), if one of the following two conditions holds:
-
(i)
\(f_{\alpha_{i}}+A\sum_{k=1}^{m}I_{\alpha_{i}}(k)\geq1\), \(f^{\beta _{i}}+B\sum_{k=1}^{m}I^{\beta_{i}}(k)\leq1\);
-
(ii)
\(f^{\alpha_{i}}+B\sum_{k=1}^{m}I^{\alpha_{i}}(k)\leq1\), \(f_{\beta _{i}}+A\sum_{k=1}^{m}I_{\beta_{i}}(k)\geq1\).
Remark 2.2
In Theorem 2.3, assume (i) and (ii) are replaced by
-
(i)
\(f_{\alpha_{i}}+A\sum_{k=1}^{m}I_{\alpha_{i}}(k)>1\), \(f^{\beta _{i}}+B\sum_{k=1}^{m}I^{\beta_{i}}(k)<1\);
-
(ii)
\(f^{\alpha_{i}}+B\sum_{k=1}^{m}I^{\alpha_{i}}(k)<1\), \(f_{\beta _{i}}+A\sum_{k=1}^{m}I_{\beta_{i}}(k)>1\).
Then the problem (1.1) has at least \(2n-1\) positive solutions.
3 Application
In this section, we are going to apply our main existence results obtained in Section 2 to some illustrating examples.
Theorem 3.1
Suppose that \(f(t,x)\geq0\) and \(I_{k}(x)\geq0\), \(t\in [ 0,T ] _{\mathbb{T}}\), \(x\in\mathbb{R}^{+}=[ 0,\infty) \). Then the problem (1.1) has at least one positive solution if one of the following two conditions holds:
-
(i)
\(f_{0}+A\sum_{k=1}^{m}I_{0}(k)>1\), \(f^{\infty}+B\sum_{k=1}^{m}I^{\infty}(k)<1\);
-
(ii)
\(f^{0}+B\sum_{k=1}^{m}I^{0}(k)<1\), \(f_{\infty}+A\sum_{k=1}^{m}I_{\infty}(k)>1\).
Proof
It is a direct consequence of Theorem 2.1 taking α small enough and β large enough, respectively. □
In particular, we have the following results, the main results of [18].
Corollary 3.1
Suppose that \(f(t,x)\geq0\) and \(I_{k}(x)\geq0\), \(t\in [ 0,T ] _{\mathbb{T}}\), \(x\in\mathbb{R}^{+}\). Then the problem (1.1) has at least one positive solution if one of the following two conditions holds:
-
(i)
\(f_{0}=\infty\) or \(\sum_{k=1}^{m}I_{0}(k)=\infty\), \(f^{\infty}=0\), \(\sum_{k=1}^{m}I^{\infty}(k)=0\);
-
(ii)
\(f_{\infty}=\infty\) or \(I_{\infty}(k)=\infty\), \(f^{0}=0\), \(\sum_{k=1}^{m}I^{0}(k)=0\).
Example 3.1
We consider the following problem on \(\mathbb{T}\):
where \(p: [ 0,T ] _{\mathbb{T}}\rightarrow(0,\infty)\) is right-dense continuous, \(0< a, b<1\), \(0< a^{\prime}, b^{\prime}<1\) or \(a, b>1\), \(a^{\prime}, b^{\prime}>1\).
Then it is easy to see that
Therefore, by Corollary 3.1, it follows that the problem (3.1) has at least one positive solution.
Theorem 3.2
Suppose that \(f(t,x)\geq0\) and \(I_{k}(x)\geq0\), \(t\in [ 0,T ] _{\mathbb{T}}\), \(x\in\mathbb{R}^{+}\). Then the problem (1.1) has at least two positive solutions if one of the following two conditions holds:
-
(i)
\(f_{0}+A\sum_{k=1}^{m}I_{0}(k)>1\), \(f_{\infty}+A\sum_{k=1}^{m}I_{\infty}(k)>1\) and there exists a \(\rho>0\) such that \(\delta\rho\leq x\leq\rho\) implies
$$f(t,x)/p(t)x+B \sum_{k=1}^{m}I^{\rho}(k)< 1, \quad t\in [ 0,T ] _{\mathbb{T}}; $$ -
(ii)
\(f^{0}+B\sum_{k=1}^{m}I^{0}(k)<1\), \(f^{\infty}+B\sum_{k=1}^{m}I^{\infty}(k)<1\) and there exists a \(\rho>0\) such that \(\delta\rho\leq x\leq\rho\) implies
$$f(t,x)/p(t)x+A \sum_{k=1}^{m}I_{\rho}(k)>1, \quad t\in [ 0,T ] _{\mathbb{T}}. $$
Corollary 3.2
Suppose that \(f(t,x)\geq0\) and \(I_{k}(x)\geq0\), \(t\in [ 0,T ] _{\mathbb{T}}\), \(x\in\mathbb{R}^{+}\). Then the problem (1.1) has at least two positive solutions if one of the following two conditions holds:
-
(i)
\(f_{0}=\infty\) or \(\sum_{k=1}^{m}I_{0}(k)=\infty\), \(f_{\infty}=\infty\) or \(I_{\infty}(k)=\infty\), and there exists a \(\rho>0\) such that \(\delta \rho \leq x\leq\rho\) implies
$$f(t,x)/p(t)x+B \sum_{k=1}^{m}I^{\rho}(k)< 1, \quad t\in [ 0,T ] _{\mathbb{T}}; $$ -
(ii)
\(f^{\infty}=0\), \(\sum_{k=1}^{m}I^{\infty}(k)=0\), \(f^{0}=0\), \(\sum_{k=1}^{m}I^{0}(k)=0 \), and there exists a \(\rho>0\) such that \(\delta \rho \leq x\leq\rho\) implies
$$f(t,x)/p(t)x+A \sum_{k=1}^{m}I_{\rho}(k)>1, \quad t\in [ 0,T ] _{\mathbb{T}}. $$
Example 3.2
We consider the following problem on \(\mathbb{T}\):
where \(0< a<1<b\), \(p: [ 0,T ] _{\mathbb{T}}\rightarrow (0,\infty)\) is right-dense continuous and \(q: [ 0,T ] _{\mathbb {T}}\rightarrow (0,\infty)\) is continuous such that
holds, where \(a^{+}=\max\{a_{1},a_{2},\ldots, a_{m}\}\).
In fact, \(f(t,x)=q(t)(x^{a}+x^{b})\), it is easy to see that
Set
then \(F(0+)=F(\infty)=0\), so there exists a \(\rho>0\) such that
So, for \(\delta\rho\leq x\leq\rho\), we have
Therefore, together with Corollary 3.2, it follows that the problem (3.2) has at least two positive solutions.
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The author express her gratitude to the anonymous referee for his/her valuable suggestions. The research was supported by Natural Science Foundation of Gansu Province of China (Grant No. 1310RJYA080).
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Guan, W. Positive solutions to nonlinear first-order impulsive dynamic equations on time scales. Adv Differ Equ 2015, 60 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13662-015-0376-z
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