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Successive iteration and positive extremal solutions for nonlinear impulsive \(q_{k}\)-difference equations
Advances in Difference Equations volume 2015, Article number: 164 (2015)
Abstract
This paper investigates the existence of positive extremal solutions for nonlinear impulsive \(q_{k}\)-difference equations via a monotone iterative method. The main result is well illustrated with the aid of an example.
1 Introduction
In recent years, there has been put focus on developing the existence theory for initial and boundary value problems of q-difference equations and inclusions. The pioneer work on the topic dates back to the first quarter of the 20th century. In contrast to the classical definition of the derivative, the concept of q-calculus does not involve the idea of limit. The importance of q-difference equations lies in the fact that these equations are always completely controllable and appear in the q-optimal control problems [1]. The q-analog of continuous variational calculus, known as variational q-calculus, is regarded as a generalization of the continuous variational calculus due to the presence of an extra parameter q, which may be physical or economical in nature. The variational calculus on a q-uniform lattice helps to find the extremum of the functional involved in Lagrange problems of q-Euler equations rather than solving the Euler-Lagrange equation itself [2]. The applications of q-calculus appear in several disciplines such as special functions, supersymmetry, control theory, operator theory, combinatorics, initial and boundary value problems of q-difference equations, etc. For details and examples, we refer the reader to the books [3–6] and [7–18]. In a recent paper [17], the authors discussed the existence and uniqueness of solutions for impulsive \(q_{k}\)-difference equations. However, it has been found that the study of \(q_{k}\)-difference equations is still at its initial phase and needs further attention.
Motivated by [17], in this paper, we obtain positive extremal solutions for a new class of nonlinear impulsive \(q_{k}\)-difference equations by the method of successive iterations. Precisely, we investigate the following problem:
where \(D_{q_{k}}\) are \(q_{k}\)-derivatives (\(k=0,1,2,\ldots,m\)), \(f\in C(J\times\mathbb{R},\mathbb{R^{+}})\), \(I_{k}\in C(\mathbb{R},\mathbb{R^{+}})\), \(J=[0,T]\), \(T>0\), \(0=t_{0}< t_{1}<\cdots<t_{k}<\cdots<t_{m}<t_{m+1}=T\), \(J'=J\backslash \{t_{1},t_{2},\ldots,t_{m}\}\), \(J_{r}=(t_{r},T]\), \(0\le\lambda<1\), \(d\ge0\), \(0\le r\le m \) and \(\triangle u(t_{k})=u(t_{k}^{+})-u(t_{k}^{-})\), \(u(t_{k}^{+})\), and \(u(t_{k}^{-})\) denote the right and the left limits of \(u(t)\) at \(t= t_{k} \) (\(k=1,2,\ldots,m\)), respectively.
The paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, we present some preliminary material and prove an auxiliary lemma, which plays a pivotal role in establishing the main result. Section 3 contains the main result, while an illustrative example is presented in Section 4.
2 Preliminaries
Let us fix \(J_{0}=[0,t_{1}],J_{1}=(t_{1},t_{2}],\ldots ,J_{m-1}=(t_{m-1},t_{m}],J_{m}=(t_{m},T]\) with \(T=t_{m+1}\) and introduce the Banach space
with the norm \(\|u\|=\sup_{t\in J} |u(t)|\).
Next we outline some basic concepts of the \(q_{k}\)-calculus [17].
For \(0< q_{k}<1\) and \(t\in J_{k}\), we define the \(q_{k}\)-derivatives of a real valued continuous function f as
Higher order \(q_{k}\)-derivatives are given by
The \(q_{k}\)-integral of a function f is defined by
provided the series converges. If \(a\in (t_{k}, t)\) and f is defined on the interval \((t_{k}, t)\), then
Observe that
In the case \(t_{k} = 0\) and \(q_{k} = q\) in (2.1) and (2.2), then \(D_{q_{k}}f = D_{q}f\), \({}_{t_{k}}\mathcal{I}_{q_{k}}f= {}_{0}\mathcal {I}_{q}f\), where \(D_{q}\) and \(_{0}\mathcal{I}_{q}\) are the well-known q-derivative and q-integral of the function \(f(t)\) defined by
Lemma 2.1
For a given \(\sigma(t)\in C(J,\mathbb{R})\), a function \(u\in PC(J,\mathbb{R})\) is a solution of the linear impulsive \(q_{k}\)-difference equations
if and only if u satisfies the following impulsive \(q_{k}\)-integral equations:
Proof
As argued in [18], the solution of the \(q_{k}\)-difference equations (2.3) can be written as
Substituting \(t=\eta\) in (2.5), we have
Using the nonlocal boundary condition (2.3), we obtain
Conversely, assume that \(u(t)\) satisfies the \(q_{k}\)-integral equation (2.4). Then, by employing the operator \(D_{q_{k}}\) on both sides of (2.4) and applying \(t=\eta\), we obtain (2.3). This completes the proof. □
3 Main result
Define a cone \(P\subset PC(J,\mathbb{R})\) by
and an operator \(\mathscr{Q}:PC(J, \mathbb{R})\to PC(J, \mathbb{R})\) by
For the sake of convenience, we introduce some notations and assumptions.
Let \(b,c>0\) be constants and \(R=b+c+\frac{d}{1-\lambda}\).
- (H1):
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\(f(t,\cdot)\) is nondecreasing on \(J\times[0,R]\), and \(f(t,u)\le \frac{b}{M}\) on \(J\times[0,R]\), where \(M=T+\frac{\lambda\eta }{1-\lambda}\).
- (H2):
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\(I_{k}(\cdot)\), \(k=1,2, \ldots, m\), are nondecreasing on \([0,R]\), and \(I_{k}(u)\le \frac{(1-\lambda)c}{m}\) on \([0,R]\).
- (H3):
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\(f(t,0)\not\equiv0\) on any subinterval of J.
We construct two explicit monotone iterative sequences, which converge to positive extremal solutions of nonlinear impulsive \(q_{k}\)-difference equations (1.1):
Recall that a solution \(u^{*}\) of problem (1.1) is called maximal (minimal) if \(u^{*}\ge(\le) u\) holds for any solution u of problem (1.1). The maximal and minimal solutions of problem (1.1) are called its extremal solutions.
Theorem 3.1
If assumptions (H1)-(H3) hold, then the nonlinear impulsive \(q_{k}\)-difference equations (1.1) has positive extremal solutions \(v^{*}\), \(u^{*}\) in \((0,R]\), which can be achieved by monotone iterative sequences defined by (3.2). Moreover, the following relation holds:
Proof
By Lemma 2.1, one can transform the nonlocal boundary value problem (1.1) to an equivalent fixed point problem: \(u=\mathscr{Q}u\). That is, a fixed point of the operator equation \(u=\mathscr{Q}u\) is a solution of the problem (1.1).
Obviously, \(\mathscr{Q}:P\to P\). By a similar process to that employed in [18], it is easy to show that \(\mathscr{Q}:P\to P\) is completely continuous.
Denote a ball \(B=\{u\in P,\|u\|\le R\}\). Now, we show that \(\mathscr{Q}(B)\subset B\). Then, for \(u\in B\), by (H1) and (H2), we have
which implies that \(\|\mathscr{Q}u\|\le R\). Thus \(\mathscr{Q}(B)\subset B\).
Next, let us denote the iterative sequence \(v_{n+1}(t)=\mathscr{Q}v_{n}(t) \) (\(n=0,1,2,\ldots\)) and pick \(v_{0}(t)=0\). Then \(v_{1}=\mathscr{Q}v_{0}=\mathscr{Q}0\), \(\forall t\in J\). In view of \(v_{0}(t)=0\in B\) and \(\mathscr{Q}:B\to B\), it follows that \(v_{n}\in\mathscr{Q}(B)\subset B \) (\(n=0,1,2,\ldots\)). Thus, we have
Applying the conditions (H1) and (H2), it is easy to prove the operator \(\mathscr{Q}\) is nondecreasing.
So, we have
By mathematical induction, one can show that the sequence \(\{v_{n}\}_{n=1}^{\infty}\) satisfies
Similarly, we denote the iterative sequence \(u_{n+1}(t)=\mathscr{Q}u_{n}(t)\) (\(n=0,1,2,\ldots\)) and pick \(u_{0}(t)=R\). Then \(u_{1}=\mathscr{Q}u_{0}\). In view of \(u_{0}(t)=R\in B\) and \(\mathscr{Q}:B\to B\), \(u_{n}\in\mathscr{Q}(B)\subset B\) (\(n=0,1,2,\ldots\)). Thus, by (H1) and (H2), we obtain
Noting that \(\mathscr{Q}\) is nondecreasing, we have
Again, by mathematical induction, it can be shown that the sequence \(\{u_{n}\}_{n=1}^{\infty}\) satisfies
By the complete continuity of the operator \(\mathscr{Q}\), the sequences \(\{v_{n}\}_{n=1}^{\infty}\) and \(\{u_{n}\}_{n=1}^{\infty}\) are relative compact. It means that \(\{v_{n}\}_{n=1}^{\infty}\) and \(\{u_{n}\}_{n=1}^{\infty}\) have convergent subsequences \(\{v_{n_{k}}\}_{k=1}^{\infty}\) and \(\{u_{n_{k}}\}_{k=1}^{\infty}\), respectively, and there exist \(v^{*},u^{*}\in B\) such that \(v_{n_{k}}\to v^{*}\), \(u_{n_{k}}\to u^{*}\) as \(k\to\infty\). Using this fact together with (3.5) and (3.6) yields
In consequence, from the continuity of the operator \(\mathscr{Q}\), it follows that \(\mathscr{Q}v^{*}=v^{*}\), \(\mathscr{Q}u^{*}=u^{*}\). This means that \(u^{*}\) and \(v^{*}\) are two solutions of problem (1.1).
Finally, we prove that \(u^{*}\) and \(v^{*}\) are positive extremal solutions of problem (1.1) in \((0,R]\).
If \(w\in[0,R]\) is any solution of problem (1.1), then \(\mathscr{Q}w=w\) and \(v_{0}(t)\le w(t)\le u_{0}(t)\). This implies that \(\mathscr{Q}\) is nondecreasing and that
Thus, employing (3.5)-(3.7), we obtain
In view of \(f(t,0) \not\equiv0\), \(\forall t\in J\), 0 is not a solution of the problem (1.1). Consequently, it follows from (3.8) that \(u^{*}\) and \(v^{*}\) are positive extremal solutions of the nonlinear impulsive \(q_{k}\)-difference equations (1.1) in \((0,R]\), which can be achieved by monotone iterative sequences given in (3.2).
This completes the proof. □
4 Example
Example 4.1
Consider the impulsive nonlocal boundary value problem of the nonlinear \(q_{k}\)-difference equation
where \(q_{k}=\frac{1}{5+k}\) (\(k=0,1,2\)), \(t_{k}=\frac{k}{3+k}\) (\(k=1,2\)), \(m=2\), \(\lambda=\frac{1}{8}\), \(\eta=\frac{1}{4}\), \(d=\frac{7}{8}\), \(M=\frac{15}{28}\), \(f(t,u)=t^{3}+\frac{t}{10} u^{2}\), and \(I_{k}(u)=\arctan u\). Taking \(b=4-\pi\), \(c=\pi\), \(R=5\), it is easy to verify that all conditions of Theorem 3.1 hold. Hence, by Theorem 3.1, the problem (4.1) has positive extremal solutions in \((0,5]\), which can be achieved by the monotone iterative sequences given by (3.2).
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The project was funded by the Deanship of Scientific Research (DSR), King Abdulaziz University, under grant no. 65-130-1435-HiCi. The authors, therefore, acknowledge with thanks DSR technical and financial support. The authors also acknowledge the reviewers for their useful comments.
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Agarwal, R.P., Wang, G., Ahmad, B. et al. Successive iteration and positive extremal solutions for nonlinear impulsive \(q_{k}\)-difference equations. Adv Differ Equ 2015, 164 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13662-015-0500-0
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