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A study of a coupled system of Hadamard fractional differential equations with nonlocal coupled initial-multipoint conditions

Abstract

In this paper, we obtain the existence results for a coupled system of Hadamard fractional differential equations supplemented with nonlocal coupled initial-multipoint conditions via fixed point theorems. An example is constructed for the illustration of the uniqueness result.

1 Introduction

Nonlocal boundary value problems have been extensively studied by many researchers. One can witness the theoretical development and applications of this class of problems in the related literature. The idea of nonlocal conditions dates back to the work of Hilb [1]. However, Bitsadze and Samarskii [2] presented the systematic investigation of spatial nonlocal problems. For motivation of nonlocal conditions, see [3, 4].

Fractional calculus, regarded as a generalization of classical calculus, deals with the differential and integral operators of noninteger order. One can find a detailed account of fractional-order differential equations in the monographs [5–9] and the references therein. On the other hand, several interesting results on Hadamard-type fractional differential equations, inclusions, and inequalities can be found in [10]. In [11], a monotone iterative method was applied to study the existence of positive solutions for Hadamard fractional differential equations complemented with nonlocal multi-point discrete and Hadamard integral boundary conditions. For application of Hadamard fractional differential equations, we refer the reader to the papers [12, 13].

Boundary value problems involving systems of fractional differential equations have also been studied by many researchers in view of their applications in the real world problems. It prompted many investigators to explore the theoretical aspects of fractional differential systems. For some recent results on Hadamard fractional differential systems, for instance, see [14–19].

Recently, in [20], the authors derived existence results for a Hadamard-type fractional differential equation equipped with nonlocal initial condition given by

$$ \textstyle\begin{cases} {}^{H}D^{q}x(t)=f(t,x(t)), &1< t< T, 0< q\leq 1, \\ x(1)+\sum_{j=1}^{m}\zeta _{j}x(t_{j})=0, \end{cases} $$
(1)

where \({}^{H}D^{q}\) denotes the Hadamard fractional derivative of order q, \(f:[1,T]\times {\mathbb{R}}\rightarrow {\mathbb{R}} \), \(t_{j}\), \(j=1,2,\ldots ,m\) are given points with \(1\leq t_{1}\leq \cdots \leq t_{m}< T\) and \(\zeta _{j}\) are real numbers such that

$$ 1+\sum_{j=1}^{m}\zeta _{j}\neq 0. $$

The inclusions case of the problem (1) was also discussed in [20]. Problem (1) was studied for \(q=1\) in [21], for time scales setting in [22], and for Caputo fractional differential equations in [23].

In the present paper, motivated by [20], we introduce and investigate the existence of solutions for a coupled system of nonlinear Hadamard type fractional differential equations

$$ \textstyle\begin{cases} {}^{H}D^{p}x(t)=f(t,x(t),y(t)), & 1< t< T, \\ {}^{H}D^{q}y(t)=g(t,x(t),y(t)), & 1< t< T, 0< p,q\leq 1, \end{cases} $$
(2)

subject to nonlocal coupled initial-multipoint conditions:

$$ \textstyle\begin{cases} x(1)+\sum_{j=1}^{m}\alpha _{j} y(t_{j})=0, \\ y(1)+\sum_{j=1}^{m}\beta _{j} x(t_{j})=0, \end{cases} $$
(3)

where \({}^{H}D^{p}\), \({}^{H}D^{q}\) denote the Hadamard fractional derivatives of orders p and q, respectively, \(f, g:[1,T]\times \mathbb{R}^{2} \rightarrow \mathbb{R} \) are Carathéodory functions, \(t_{j}\) are given points with \(1\leq t_{1}\leq \cdots \leq t_{m}< T\), and \(\alpha _{j}\), \(\beta _{j}\) are real numbers such that \(1-\sum_{j=1}^{m}\alpha _{j}\sum_{j=1}^{m}\beta _{j} \neq 0\).

Existence results for the system (2)–(3) are proved by applying fixed point theorems. In Sect. 3, we discuss an existence result using the idea employed in [21–23], where the growth condition is split into two subintervals: one containing the points involved in the nonlocal condition, while the second deals with the rest of the interval. In Sect. 4, we present two more results for the system (2)–(3): an existence and uniqueness result is obtained by using Banach’s fixed point theorem, while Leray–Schauder alternative is employed to obtain an existence result by assuming a growth condition on f and g on the whole interval.

2 Preliminaries

In this section, we introduce notation and definitions which are used throughout this paper. Let \(X=\{x(t): x(t)\in C([1,T],\mathbb{R})\}\) be endowed with the norm \(\|x\|=\|x\|_{[1,T]}=\max_{t\in [1,T]}|x(t)|\). Obviously \((X,\|\cdot \|)\) is a Banach space. Also \(Y=\{y(t): y(t)\in C([1,T],\mathbb{R})\}\) endowed with the norm \(\|y\|=\|y\|_{[1,T]}=\max_{t\in [1,T]}|y(t)|\) is a Banach space. Then the product space \((X\times Y, \|(x,y)\|)\) is also a Banach space equipped with the norm \(\|(x,y)\|=\|x\|+\|y\|\).

We denote by \(L^{1}([1,T],\mathbb{R})\) the Banach space of measurable functions \(x:[1,T]\rightarrow \mathbb{R,}\) which are Lebesgue integrable, and normed by

$$ \Vert x \Vert _{L^{1}}= \int _{1}^{T} \bigl\vert x(t) \bigr\vert \,dt \quad \text{for all } x\in L^{1}\bigl([1,T], \mathbb{R}\bigr). $$

Let us recall some basic definitions on fractional calculus.

Definition 1

The Hadamard derivative of fractional order q for a function \(g:[1,\infty )\rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) is defined as

$$ {}^{H}D^{q} g(t)=\frac{1}{\Gamma (n-q)} \biggl(t \frac{d}{dt} \biggr)^{n} \int _{1}^{t}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t}{s} \biggr)^{n-q-1}} \frac{g(s)}{s} \,ds, \quad n-1< q< n, n=[q]+1, $$

where \([q]\) denotes the integer part of the real number q and \(\log (\cdot )=\log _{e}(\cdot )\).

Definition 2

The Hadamard fractional integral of order q for a function g is defined as

$$ I^{q} g(t)=\frac{1}{\Gamma (q)} \int _{1}^{t}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t}{s} \biggr)^{q-1}} \frac{g(s)}{s} \,ds, \quad q>0, $$

provided the integral exists.

In order to define the solution of problem (2)–(3), we consider the following lemma, concerning a linear variant of problem (2)–(3).

Lemma 1

Let \(h, k \in C([1,T],\mathbb{R})\) and \(Q:=1-\sum_{j=1}^{m}\alpha _{j}\sum_{j=1}^{m}\beta _{j} \neq 0\). Then the solution for the linear system of fractional differential equations

$$ \textstyle\begin{cases} {}^{H}D^{p}x(t)=h_{1}(t), & 1< t< T, \\ {}^{H}D^{q}y(t)=h_{2}(t), & 1< t< T, 0< p,q\leq 1, \end{cases} $$
(4)

supplemented with nonlocal coupled initial-multipoint conditions in (3) is equivalent to the integral equations

$$\begin{aligned} x(t) =&\frac{1}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{1}^{t}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \frac{h_{1}(s)}{s} \,ds-\frac{1}{Q} \Biggl[{\sum _{j=1}^{m}} \alpha _{j} \frac{1}{\Gamma (q)} \int _{1}^{t_{j}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t_{j}}{s} \biggr)^{q-1}} \frac{h_{2}(s)}{s} \,ds \\ &{}-\sum_{j=1}^{m}\alpha _{j} \sum_{j=1}^{m}\beta _{j} \frac{1}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{1}^{t_{j}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t_{j}}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \frac{h_{1}(s)}{s} \,ds \Biggr] \end{aligned}$$
(5)

and

$$\begin{aligned} y(t) =&\frac{1}{\Gamma (q)} \int _{1}^{t}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t}{s} \biggr)^{q-1}} \frac{h_{2}(s)}{s} \,ds-\frac{1}{Q} \Biggl[{\sum _{j=1}^{m}}\beta _{j} \frac{1}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{1}^{t_{j}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t_{j}}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \frac{h_{1}(s)}{s} \,ds \\ &{}-\sum_{j=1}^{m}\alpha _{j} \sum_{j=1}^{m}\beta _{j} \frac{1}{\Gamma (q)} \int _{1}^{t_{j}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t_{j}}{s} \biggr)^{q-1}} \frac{h_{2}(s)}{s} \,ds \Biggr]. \end{aligned}$$
(6)

Proof

For some constant \(x_{0},y_{0}\in \mathbb{R}\), we have

$$ \begin{gathered} x(t)=\frac{1}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{1}^{t}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \frac{h_{1}(s)}{s} \,ds-x_{0}, \\ y(t)=\frac{1}{\Gamma (q)} \int _{1}^{t}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t}{s} \biggr)^{q-1}} \frac{h_{2}(s)}{s} \,ds-y_{0}. \end{gathered} $$
(7)

Then, we obtain

$$ \begin{gathered} x(t_{j})= \frac{1}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{1}^{t_{j}}{ \biggl( \log \frac{t_{j}}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \frac{h_{1}(s)}{s} \,ds-x_{0}, \\ y(t_{j})=\frac{1}{\Gamma (q)} \int _{1}^{t_{j}}{ \biggl( \log \frac{t_{j}}{s} \biggr)^{q-1}} \frac{h_{2}(s)}{s} \,ds-y_{0}. \end{gathered} $$
(8)

Using (7) and (8) in the initial conditions (3), we obtain a system of equations in the unknown constants \(x_{0}\) and \(y_{0}\) given by

$$ \textstyle\begin{cases} x_{0} +\sum_{j=1}^{m}\alpha _{j} y_{0}=A_{1}, \\ \sum_{j=1}^{m}\beta _{j} x_{0}+y_{0}=A_{2}, \end{cases} $$
(9)

where

$$\begin{aligned} \begin{gathered} A_{1}=\sum_{j=1}^{m} \alpha _{j} \frac{1}{\Gamma (q)} \int _{1}^{t_{j}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t_{j}}{s} \biggr)^{q-1}} \frac{h_{2}(s)}{s} \,ds, \\ A_{2}=\sum _{j=1}^{m} \beta _{j} \frac{1}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{1}^{t_{j}}{ \biggl( \log \frac{t_{j}}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \frac{h_{1}(s)}{s} \,ds. \end{gathered} \end{aligned}$$
(10)

Solving the system (9) for \(x_{0}\) and \(y_{0}\), we find that

$$ x_{0}=\frac{1}{Q} \Biggl[A_{1}- \sum _{j=1}^{m}\alpha _{j} A_{2} \Biggr], \qquad y_{0}=\frac{1}{Q} \Biggl[A_{2}- \sum _{j=1}^{m} \beta _{j} A_{1} \Biggr]. $$

Substituting the values of \(x_{0}\) and \(y_{0}\) in (7), together with the notations (10), leads to the solution (5) and (6). The converse can be proved by direct computation. The proof is completed. □

For convenience, we set

$$\begin{aligned} &B=1+ \vert \eta \vert \sum_{j=1}^{m} \vert \alpha _{j} \vert \sum_{j=1}^{m} \vert \beta _{j} \vert , \qquad C= \vert \eta \vert \sum _{j=1}^{m} \vert \alpha _{j} \vert , \qquad D= \vert \eta \vert \sum_{j=1}^{m} \vert \beta _{j} \vert , \qquad \eta =\frac{1}{Q}, \\ &m_{1}=\frac{B(\log T)^{p}}{\Gamma (p+1)}, \qquad m_{2}= \frac{C(\log T)^{q}}{\Gamma (q+1)}, \qquad n_{1}= \frac{B(\log T)^{q}}{\Gamma (q+1)}, \qquad n_{2}= \frac{D(\log T)^{p}}{\Gamma (p+1)}, \\ &l_{1}=\frac{B}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{1}^{T}{ \biggl(\log \frac{T}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \frac{k_{1}(s)}{s} \,ds, \qquad l_{2}= \frac{C}{\Gamma (q)} \int _{1}^{T}{ \biggl(\log \frac{T}{s} \biggr)^{q-1}} \frac{k_{2}(s)}{s} \,ds, \\ &l_{3}=\frac{B}{\Gamma (q)} \int _{1}^{T}{ \biggl(\log \frac{T}{s} \biggr)^{q-1}} \frac{k_{2}(s)}{s} \,ds, \qquad l_{4}= \frac{D}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{1}^{T}{ \biggl(\log \frac{T}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \frac{k_{1}(s)}{s} \,ds. \end{aligned}$$
(11)

3 Existence result with mixed growth condition

We assume that \(f,g:[1,T] \times \mathbb{R}^{2}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) are Carathéodory functions and prove an existence result with mixed growth condition.

Definition 3

We say that \(f,g:[1,T] \times \mathbb{R}^{2}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) are \(L^{1}\)-Carathéodory if

  1. (i)

    \(t \longmapsto f(t,x,y)\), \(t \longmapsto g(t,x,y)\) are measurable for each \((x,y)\in \mathbb{R}^{2}\);

  2. (ii)

    \((x,y) \longmapsto f(t,x,y)\), \((x,y)\longmapsto g(t,x,y)\) are continuous for almost all \(t\in [1,T]\);

  3. (iii)

    For each \(\mu >0\), there exist \(\sigma _{\mu }, \varrho _{\mu }\in L^{1}([1,T],\mathbb{R}^{+})\) such that \(|f(t,x,y)|\leq \sigma _{\mu }\) for almost all \(t\in [1,T]\) and for all \(x,y\in {\mathbb{R}}^{+}\) such that \(\|x\|\leq \mu \), \(\|y\|\leq \mu \), and \(|g(t,x,y)|\leq \varrho _{\mu }\) for almost all \(t\in [1,T]\) and for all \(x,y\in {\mathbb{R}}^{+}\) such that \(\|x\|\leq \mu \), \(\|y\|\leq \mu \).

In view of Lemma 1, we define an operator \(\mathcal{F}:X \times Y\rightarrow X \times Y\) by

$$ \mathcal{F}(x,y) (t):=\bigl(\mathcal{F}_{1}(x,y) (t), \mathcal{F}_{2}(x,y) (t)\bigr), $$
(12)

where

$$\begin{aligned} \mathcal{F}_{1}(x,y) (t)&=\frac{1}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{1}^{t}{ \biggl( \log \frac{t}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \frac{f(s,x(s),y(s))}{s} \,ds \\ & \quad {}-\eta \Biggl[{\sum_{j=1}^{m}} \alpha _{j} \frac{1}{\Gamma (q)} \int _{1}^{t_{j}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t_{j}}{s} \biggr)^{q-1}} \frac{g(s,x(s),y(s))}{s} \,ds \\ & \quad {}-\sum_{j=1}^{m}\alpha _{j}\sum_{j=1}^{m}\beta _{j} \frac{1}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{1}^{t_{j}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t_{j}}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \frac{f(s,x(s),y(s))}{s} \,ds \Biggr],\quad t \in [1,T], \end{aligned}$$
(13)

and

$$\begin{aligned} \mathcal{F}_{2}(x,y) (t)&=\frac{1}{\Gamma (q)} \int _{1}^{t}{ \biggl( \log \frac{t}{s} \biggr)^{q-1}} \frac{g(s,x(s),y(s))}{s} \,ds \\ & \quad{} -\eta \Biggl[{\sum_{j=1}^{m}} \beta _{j} \frac{1}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{1}^{t_{j}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t_{j}}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \frac{f(s,x(s),y(s))}{s} \,ds \\ & \quad {}-\sum_{j=1}^{m}\alpha _{j}\sum_{j=1}^{m}\beta _{j} \frac{1}{\Gamma (q)} \int _{1}^{t_{j}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t_{j}}{s} \biggr)^{q-1}} \frac{g(s,x(s),y(s))}{s} \,ds \Biggr],\quad t \in [1,T]. \end{aligned}$$
(14)

Note that the operators \(\mathcal{F}_{1}\) and \(\mathcal{F}_{2}\) given by (13) and (14) appear as sums of two integral operators: one of Fredholm type, whose values depend only on the restrictions of functions to \([1,t_{m}]\) and which is given by

$$\begin{aligned} \mathcal{F}_{F_{1}}(x,y) (t) = \textstyle\begin{cases} \frac{1}{\Gamma (p)}\int _{1}^{t}{ (\log \frac{t}{s} )^{p-1}} \frac{f(s,x(s),y(s))}{s} \,ds \\ \quad {} -\eta [{\sum_{j=1}^{m}}\alpha _{j} \frac{1}{\Gamma (q)}\int _{1}^{t_{j}}{ (\log \frac{t_{j}}{s} )^{q-1}} \frac{g(s,x(s),y(s))}{s} \,ds \\ \quad {} -\sum_{j=1}^{m}\alpha _{j}\sum_{j=1}^{m}\beta _{j} \frac{1}{\Gamma (p)}\int _{1}^{t_{j}}{ (\log \frac{t_{j}}{s} )^{p-1}} \frac{f(s,x(s),y(s))}{s} \,ds ], & \text{if } t < t_{m}, \\ \frac{1}{\Gamma (p)}\int _{1}^{t_{m}}{ (\log \frac{t_{m}}{s} )^{p-1}} \frac{f(s,x(s),y(s))}{s} \,ds \\ \quad {} -\eta [{\sum_{j=1}^{m}}\alpha _{j} \frac{1}{\Gamma (q)}\int _{1}^{t_{j}}{ (\log \frac{t_{j}}{s} )^{q-1}} \frac{g(s,x(s),y(s))}{s} \,ds \\ \quad {} -\sum_{j=1}^{m}\alpha _{j}\sum_{j=1}^{m}\beta _{j} \frac{1}{\Gamma (p)}\int _{1}^{t_{j}}{ (\log \frac{t_{j}}{s} )^{p-1}} \frac{f(s,x(s),y(s))}{s} \,ds ], & \text{if } t \geq t_{m}, \end{cases}\displaystyle \end{aligned}$$

and the other of Volterra type, defined by

$$\begin{aligned} \mathcal{F}_{V_{1}}(x,y) (t) = \textstyle\begin{cases} 0 &\text{if } t < t_{m}, \\ \frac{1}{\Gamma (p)}\int _{t_{m}}^{t}{ (\log \frac{t}{s} )^{p-1}} \frac{f(s,x(s),y(s))}{s} \,ds, &\text{if } t \geq t_{m}, \end{cases}\displaystyle \end{aligned}$$

depending on the restriction of function to \([t_{m},T]\).

Similarly, \(\mathcal{F}_{2}=\mathcal{F}_{F_{2}}+\mathcal{F}_{V_{2}}\), where

$$\begin{aligned} \mathcal{F}_{F_{2}}(x,y) (t) = \textstyle\begin{cases} \frac{1}{\Gamma (q)}\int _{1}^{t}{ (\log \frac{t}{s} )^{q-1}} \frac{g(s,x(s),y(s))}{s} \,ds \\ \quad {} -\eta [{\sum_{j=1}^{m}}\beta _{j} \frac{1}{\Gamma (p)}\int _{1}^{t_{j}}{ (\log \frac{t_{j}}{s} )^{p-1}} \frac{f(s,x(s),y(s))}{s} \,ds \\ \quad {} -\sum_{j=1}^{m}\alpha _{j}\sum_{j=1}^{m}\beta _{j} \frac{1}{\Gamma (q)}\int _{1}^{t_{j}}{ (\log \frac{t_{j}}{s} )^{q-1}} \frac{g(s,x(s),y(s))}{s} \,ds ], & \text{if } t < t_{m}, \\ \frac{1}{\Gamma (q)}\int _{1}^{t_{m}}{ (\log \frac{t_{m}}{s} )^{q-1}} \frac{g(s,x(s),y(s))}{s} \,ds \\ \quad {} -\eta [{\sum_{j=1}^{m}}\beta _{j} \frac{1}{\Gamma (p)}\int _{1}^{t_{j}}{ (\log \frac{t_{j}}{s} )^{p-1}} \frac{f(s,x(s),y(s))}{s} \,ds \\ \quad {} -\sum_{j=1}^{m}\alpha _{j}\sum_{j=1}^{m}\beta _{j} \frac{1}{\Gamma (q)}\int _{1}^{t_{j}}{ (\log \frac{t_{j}}{s} )^{q-1}} \frac{g(s,x(s),y(s))}{s} \,ds ], & \text{if } t \geq t_{m}, \end{cases}\displaystyle \end{aligned}$$

and the Volterra type operator is defined by

$$\begin{aligned} \mathcal{F}_{V_{2}}(x,y) (t) = \textstyle\begin{cases} 0 &\text{if } t < t_{m}, \\ \frac{1}{\Gamma (q)}\int _{t_{m}}^{t}{ (\log \frac{t}{s} )^{q-1}} \frac{g(s,x(s),y(s))}{s} \,ds, &\text{if } t \geq t_{m}. \end{cases}\displaystyle \end{aligned}$$

This allows us to split the growth condition on the nonlinear terms \(f(t, x,y)\) and \(g(t,x,y)\) into two parts, namely, for \(t\in [1,t_{m}]\) and \(t\in [t_{m},T]\).

Theorem 1

Assume that

\((H_{1})\):

\(f, g:[1,T]\times \mathbb{R}^{2} \rightarrow \mathbb{R} \) are \(L^{1}\)-Carathéodory functions;

\((H_{2})\):

There exist continuous functions \(\omega _{1}\), \(\omega _{2}\) nondecreasing in their second argument, \(k\in L^{1}[t_{m},T]\), and nondecreasing functions \(\Psi _{1}, \Psi _{2}: \mathbb{R}^{+} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^{+} \) such that

$$\begin{aligned}& \bigl\vert f(t,x,y) \bigr\vert = \textstyle\begin{cases} \omega _{1}(t, \vert x \vert , \vert y \vert ), &\textit{if } t\in [1,t_{m}], \\ k(t)\Psi _{1}( \vert x \vert , \vert y \vert ), &\textit{if } t \in [t_{m},T], \end{cases}\displaystyle \end{aligned}$$
(15)
$$\begin{aligned}& \bigl\vert g(t,x,y) \bigr\vert = \textstyle\begin{cases} \omega _{2}(t, \vert x \vert , \vert y \vert ), &\textit{if } t\in [1,t_{m}], \\ k(t)\Psi _{2}( \vert x \vert , \vert y \vert ), &\textit{if } t \in [t_{m},T]; \end{cases}\displaystyle \end{aligned}$$
(16)
\((H_{3})\):

There exists \(R_{0}>0\) such that

$$\begin{aligned} \rho >R_{0}\quad \Longrightarrow\quad & \frac{B+D}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{1}^{t_{m}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t_{m}}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \frac{\omega _{1}(s, \vert \rho _{1} \vert , \vert \rho _{2} \vert )}{s} \,ds \\ &\quad {}+ \frac{B+C}{\Gamma (q)} \int _{1}^{t_{m}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t_{m}}{s} \biggr)^{q-1}} \frac{\omega _{2}(s, \vert \rho _{1} \vert , \vert \rho _{2} \vert )}{s} \,ds< \rho ; \end{aligned}$$
\((H_{4})\):

\(\limsup_{R\rightarrow \infty }\frac{R}{ \Lambda _{1}+\Lambda _{2}} >1\), where

$$\begin{aligned}& \begin{aligned}[b] \Lambda _{1}&= \frac{B+D}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{1}^{t_{m}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \frac{\omega _{1}(s,R_{0},R_{0})}{s} \,ds \\ &\quad {}+\Psi _{1}(R,R)\frac{1}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{t_{m}}^{T}{ \biggl(\log \frac{T}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \frac{k(s)}{s} \,ds, \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$
(17)
$$\begin{aligned}& \begin{aligned}[b] \Lambda _{2}&=\frac{B+C}{\Gamma (q)} \int _{1}^{t_{m}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t}{s} \biggr)^{q-1}} \frac{\omega _{2}(s,R_{0},R_{0})}{s} \,ds \\ &\quad {}+\Psi _{2}(R,R)\frac{1}{\Gamma (q)} \int _{t_{m}}^{T}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t}{s} \biggr)^{q-1}} \frac{k(s)}{s} \,ds. \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$
(18)

Then, problem (2)–(3) has at least one solution on \([1,T]\).

Proof

We show that the solutions of (2)–(3) are a priori bounded. Let \((x, y)\) be a solution. Then, for \(t\in [1, t_{m}]\), we have

$$\begin{aligned} \bigl\vert x(t) \bigr\vert =& \bigl\vert \lambda \mathcal{F}_{1}(x,y) (t) \bigr\vert \\ =& \lambda \Biggl\vert \frac{1}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{1}^{t}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \frac{f(s,x(s),y(s))}{s} \,ds \\ &{}-\eta \Biggl[{\sum_{j=1}^{m}}\alpha _{j} \frac{1}{\Gamma (q)} \int _{1}^{t_{j}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t_{j}}{s} \biggr)^{q-1}} \frac{g(s,x(s),y(s))}{s} \,ds \\ &{}-\sum_{j=1}^{m}\alpha _{j} \sum_{j=1}^{m}\beta _{j} \frac{1}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{1}^{t_{j}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t_{j}}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \frac{f(s,x(s),y(s))}{s} \,ds \Biggr] \Biggr\vert \\ \leq & \frac{1}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{1}^{t_{m}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t_{m}}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \frac{ \vert f(s,x(s),y(s)) \vert }{s} \,ds \\ &{}+ \vert \eta \vert \Biggl[{\sum_{j=1}^{m}} \vert \alpha _{j} \vert \frac{1}{\Gamma (q)} \int _{1}^{t_{m}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t_{j}}{s} \biggr)^{q-1}} \frac{ \vert g(s,x(s),y(s)) \vert }{s} \,ds \\ &{}+\sum_{j=1}^{m} \vert \alpha _{j} \vert \sum_{j=1}^{m} \vert \beta _{j} \vert \frac{1}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{1}^{t_{m}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t_{j}}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \frac{ \vert f(s,x(s),y(s)) \vert }{s} \,ds \Biggr] \\ \leq & B \frac{1}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{1}^{t_{m}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t_{m}}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \frac{\omega _{1}(s, \vert x(s) \vert , \vert y(s) \vert )}{s} \,ds \\ &{}+C \frac{1}{\Gamma (q)} \int _{1}^{t_{m}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t_{m}}{s} \biggr)^{q-1}} \frac{\omega _{2}(s, \vert x(s) \vert , \vert y(s) \vert )}{s} \,ds, \end{aligned}$$

which, on taking the supremum for \(t\in [1, t_{m}]\), yields

$$\begin{aligned} \Vert x \Vert _{[1,t_{m}]}&\leq \frac{B}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{1}^{t_{m}}{ \biggl( \log \frac{t_{m}}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \frac{\omega _{1}(s, \Vert x \Vert _{[1,t_{m}]}, \Vert y \Vert _{[1,t_{m}]})}{s} \,ds \\ &\quad +\frac{C}{\Gamma (q)} \int _{1}^{t_{m}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t_{m}}{s} \biggr)^{q-1}} \frac{\omega _{2}(s, \Vert x \Vert _{[1,t_{m}]}, \Vert y \Vert _{[1,t_{m}]})}{s} \,ds. \end{aligned}$$
(19)

Similarly,

$$\begin{aligned} \Vert y \Vert _{[1,t_{m}]}\leq & \frac{B}{\Gamma (q)} \int _{1}^{t_{m}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t_{m}}{s} \biggr)^{q-1}} \frac{\omega _{2}(s, \Vert x \Vert _{[1,t_{m}]}, \Vert y \Vert _{[1,t_{m}]})}{s} \,ds \\ &+ \frac{D}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{1}^{t_{m}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t_{m}}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \frac{\omega _{1}(s, \Vert x \Vert _{[1,t_{m}]}, \Vert y \Vert _{[1,t_{m}]})}{s} \,ds. \end{aligned}$$
(20)

Let \(\rho _{1}=\|x\|_{[1,t_{m}]}\), \(\rho _{2}=\|y\|_{[1,t_{m}]}\). Then from (19) and (20), we deduce

$$\begin{aligned} \textstyle\begin{cases} \rho _{1} \leq \frac{B}{\Gamma (p)}\int _{1}^{t_{m}}{ (\log \frac{t_{m}}{s} )^{p-1}} \frac{\omega _{1}(s, \rho _{1}, \rho _{2} )}{s} \,ds+ \frac{C}{\Gamma (q)}\int _{1}^{t_{m}}{ (\log \frac{t_{m}}{s} )^{q-1}} \frac{\omega _{2}(s, \rho _{1}, \rho _{2})}{s} \,ds, \\ \rho _{2} \leq \frac{B}{\Gamma (q)}\int _{1}^{t_{m}}{ (\log \frac{t_{m}}{s} )^{q-1}} \frac{\omega _{2}(s,\rho _{1},\rho _{2})}{s} \,ds+ \frac{D}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{1}^{t_{m}}{ (\log \frac{t_{m}}{s} )^{p-1}} \frac{\omega _{1}(s,\rho _{1},\rho _{2})}{s} \,ds. \end{cases}\displaystyle \end{aligned}$$

Then

$$\begin{aligned} \rho =&\rho _{1} +\rho _{2} \\ \leq& \frac{B+D}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{1}^{t_{m}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t_{m}}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \frac{\omega _{1}(s, \vert \rho _{1} \vert , \vert \rho _{2} \vert )}{s} \,ds \\ &{}+ \frac{B+C}{\Gamma (q)} \int _{1}^{t_{m}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t_{m}}{s} \biggr)^{q-1}} \frac{\omega _{2}(s, \vert \rho _{1} \vert , \vert \rho _{2} \vert )}{s} \,ds. \end{aligned}$$

Then, assumption \((H_{3})\) guarantees that

$$ \rho \leq R_{0}. $$
(21)

Next, we let \(t\in [t_{m},T]\). Then

$$\begin{aligned} \bigl\vert x(t) \bigr\vert =& \bigl\vert \lambda \mathcal{F}_{1}(x,y) (t) \bigr\vert \\ =& \lambda \Biggl\vert \frac{1}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{1}^{t}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \frac{f(s,x(s),y(s))}{s} \,ds \\ &{}-\eta \Biggl[{\sum_{j=1}^{m}}\alpha _{j} \frac{1}{\Gamma (q)} \int _{1}^{t_{j}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t_{j}}{s} \biggr)^{q-1}} \frac{g(s,x(s),y(s))}{s} \,ds \\ &{}-\sum_{j=1}^{m}\alpha _{j} \sum_{j=1}^{m}\beta _{j} \frac{1}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{1}^{t_{j}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t_{j}}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \frac{f(s,x(s),y(s))}{s} \,ds \Biggr] \Biggr\vert \\ \leq & \frac{1}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{1}^{t_{m}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \frac{\omega _{1}(s,R_{0},R_{0})}{s} \,dt \\ &{}+ \vert \eta \vert \Biggl[{\sum_{j=1}^{m}} \vert \alpha _{j} \vert \frac{1}{\Gamma (q)} \int _{1}^{t_{j}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t_{j}}{s} \biggr)^{q-1}} \frac{\omega _{2}(s,R_{0},R_{0})}{s} \,dt \\ &{}+\sum_{j=1}^{m} \vert \alpha _{j} \vert \sum_{j=1}^{m} \vert \beta _{j} \vert \frac{1}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{1}^{t_{j}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t_{j}}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \frac{\omega _{1}(s,R_{0},R_{0})}{s} \,dt \Biggr] \\ &{}+\frac{1}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{t_{m}}^{t}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \frac{k(s)\Psi _{1}( \vert x(s) \vert , \vert y(s) \vert )}{s} \,ds \\ \leq & \frac{B}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{1}^{t_{m}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \frac{\omega _{1}(s,R_{0},R_{0})}{s} \,ds+ \frac{C}{\Gamma (q)} \int _{1}^{t_{m}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t}{s} \biggr)^{q-1}} \frac{\omega _{2}(s,R_{0},R_{0})}{s} \,ds \\ &{}+\frac{1}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{t_{m}}^{t}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \frac{k(s)\Psi _{1}( \vert x(s) \vert , \vert y(s) \vert )}{s} \,ds \\ \leq & \frac{B}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{1}^{t_{m}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \frac{\omega _{1}(s,R_{0},R_{0})}{s} \,ds+ \frac{C}{\Gamma (q)} \int _{1}^{t_{m}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t}{s} \biggr)^{q-1}} \frac{\omega _{2}(s,R_{0},R_{0})}{s} \,ds \\ &{}+\Psi _{1}\bigl( \Vert x \Vert _{[t_{m},T]}, \Vert y \Vert _{[t_{m},T]}\bigr)\frac{1}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{t_{m}}^{T}{ \biggl(\log \frac{T}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \frac{k(s)}{s} \,ds, \end{aligned}$$

and consequently,

$$\begin{aligned}& \Vert x \Vert _{[t_{m},T]} \\& \quad \leq \frac{B}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{1}^{t_{m}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \frac{\omega _{1}(s,R_{0},R_{0})}{s} \,ds+ \frac{C}{\Gamma (q)} \int _{1}^{t_{m}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t}{s} \biggr)^{q-1}} \frac{\omega _{2}(s,R_{0},R_{0})}{s} \,ds \\& \qquad {}+\Psi _{1}\bigl( \Vert x \Vert _{[t_{m},T]}, \Vert y \Vert _{[t_{m},T]}\bigr)\frac{1}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{t_{m}}^{T}{ \biggl(\log \frac{T}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \frac{k(s)}{s} \,ds. \end{aligned}$$

Similarly,

$$\begin{aligned}& \bigl\vert y(t) \bigr\vert \\& \quad \leq \frac{B}{\Gamma (q)} \int _{1}^{t_{m}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t}{s} \biggr)^{q-1}} \frac{\omega _{2}(s,R_{0},R_{0})}{s} \,ds+ \frac{D}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{1}^{t_{m}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \frac{\omega _{1}(s,R_{0},R_{0})}{s} \,ds \\& \qquad {}+\Psi _{2}\bigl( \Vert x \Vert _{[t_{m},T]}, \Vert y \Vert _{[t_{m},T]}\bigr)\frac{1}{\Gamma (q)} \int _{t_{m}}^{T}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t}{s} \biggr)^{q-1}} \frac{k(s)}{s} \,ds \end{aligned}$$

and

$$\begin{aligned}& \Vert y \Vert _{[t_{m},T]} \\& \quad \leq \frac{B}{\Gamma (q)} \int _{1}^{t_{m}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t}{s} \biggr)^{q-1}} \frac{\omega _{2}(s,R_{0},R_{0})}{s} \,ds+ \frac{D}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{1}^{t_{m}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \frac{\omega _{1}(s,R_{0},R_{0})}{s} \,ds \\& \qquad {}+\Psi _{2}\bigl( \Vert x \Vert _{[t_{m},T]}, \Vert y \Vert _{[t_{m},T]}\bigr)\frac{1}{\Gamma (q)} \int _{t_{m}}^{T}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t}{s} \biggr)^{q-1}} \frac{k(s)}{s} \,ds. \end{aligned}$$

Then we have

$$\begin{aligned}& \Vert x \Vert _{[t_{m},T]}+ \Vert y \Vert _{[t_{m},T]} \\& \quad \leq \frac{B+D}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{1}^{t_{m}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \frac{\omega _{1}(s,R_{0},R_{0})}{s} \,ds+ \frac{B+C}{\Gamma (q)} \int _{1}^{t_{m}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t}{s} \biggr)^{q-1}} \frac{\omega _{2}(s,R_{0},R_{0})}{s} \,ds \\& \qquad {}+\Psi _{1}\bigl( \Vert x \Vert _{[t_{m},T]}, \Vert y \Vert _{[t_{m},T]}\bigr)\frac{1}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{t_{m}}^{T}{ \biggl(\log \frac{T}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \frac{k(s)}{s} \,ds \\& \qquad {}+\Psi _{2}\bigl( \Vert x \Vert _{[t_{m},T]}, \Vert y \Vert _{[t_{m},T]}\bigr)\frac{1}{\Gamma (q)} \int _{t_{m}}^{T}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t}{s} \biggr)^{q-1}} \frac{k(s)}{s} \,ds \\& \quad = \Lambda _{1}+\Lambda _{2} \end{aligned}$$

and

$$\begin{aligned} \frac{ \Vert x \Vert _{[t_{m},T]}+ \Vert y \Vert _{[t_{m},T]}}{\Lambda _{1}+\Lambda _{2}} \le 1. \end{aligned}$$
(22)

Now (H4) implies that there exists \(R^{\ast }>0\) such that for all \(R>R^{\ast }\), we have

$$\begin{aligned} \frac{R }{\Lambda _{1}+\Lambda _{2}}>1. \end{aligned}$$
(23)

Comparing inequalities (22) and (23), we find that

$$ \Vert x \Vert _{[ t_{m},T]}+ \Vert y \Vert _{[ t_{m},T]}\leq R^{\ast }. $$

Let \(\gamma =\max \{R_{0},R^{\ast }\}\). We have \(\|x\|_{[1,T]}\leq \gamma \) and \(\|y\|_{[1,T]}\leq \gamma \). It follows from \((H_{1})\) that there exist \(\sigma _{\gamma }, \varrho _{\gamma }\in L^{1}([1,T],\mathbb{R}^{+})\) such that \(|f(t,x,y)|\leq \sigma _{\gamma }\) and \(|g(t,x,y)|\leq \varrho _{\gamma }\) for almost all \(t\in [1,T]\).

The operator \(\mathcal{F} : \overline{B}_{\gamma } \rightarrow C[1,T]\) is continuous and completely continuous. Indeed, \(\mathcal{F}\) is continuous in view of \((H_{1})\), and for complete continuity, we remark that the operator is uniformly bounded as

$$\begin{aligned} \bigl\vert \mathcal{F}_{1}\bigl(x(t),y(t)\bigr) \bigr\vert =& \Biggl\vert \frac{1}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{1}^{t}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \frac{f(s,x(s),y(s))}{s} \,ds \\ &{}-\eta \Biggl[{\sum_{j=1}^{m}}\alpha _{j} \frac{1}{\Gamma (q)} \int _{1}^{t_{j}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t_{j}}{s} \biggr)^{q-1}} \frac{g(s,x(s),y(s))}{s} \,ds \\ &{}-\sum_{j=1}^{m}\alpha _{j} \sum_{j=1}^{m}\beta _{j} \frac{1}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{1}^{t_{j}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t_{j}}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \frac{f(s,x(s),y(s))}{s} \,ds \Biggr] \Biggr\vert \\ \leq & \frac{1}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{1}^{T}{ \biggl(\log \frac{T}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \frac{\sigma _{\gamma }}{s} \,ds \\ &{}+ \vert \eta \vert \Biggl[{\sum_{j=1}^{m}} \vert \alpha _{j} \vert \frac{1}{\Gamma (q)} \int _{1}^{T}{ \biggl(\log \frac{T}{s} \biggr)^{q-1}} \frac{\varrho _{\gamma }}{s} \,ds \\ &{}+\sum_{j=1}^{m} \vert \alpha _{j} \vert \sum_{j=1}^{m} \vert \beta _{j} \vert \frac{1}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{1}^{T}{ \biggl(\log \frac{T}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \frac{\sigma _{\gamma }}{s} \,ds \Biggr] \\ \leq & B \frac{1}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{1}^{T}{ \biggl(\log \frac{T}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \frac{\sigma _{\gamma }}{s} \,ds+ C \frac{1}{\Gamma (q)} \int _{1}^{T}{ \biggl(\log \frac{T}{s} \biggr)^{q-1}} \frac{\varrho _{\gamma }}{s} \,ds. \end{aligned}$$

Similarly,

$$\begin{aligned} \bigl\vert \mathcal{F}_{2}\bigl(x(t),y(t)\bigr) \bigr\vert \leq & \frac{B}{\Gamma (q)} \int _{1}^{T}{ \biggl(\log \frac{T}{s} \biggr)^{q-1}} \frac{\varrho _{\gamma }}{s} \,ds+ \frac{D}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{1}^{T}{ \biggl(\log \frac{T}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \frac{\sigma _{\gamma }}{s} \,ds, \end{aligned}$$

and it is equicontinuous since

$$\begin{aligned}& \bigl\vert \mathcal{F}_{1}\bigl(x(\nu _{2}),y(\nu _{2})\bigr)-\mathcal{F}_{1}\bigl(x(\nu _{1}),y( \nu _{1})\bigr) \bigr\vert \\& \quad = \biggl\vert \frac{1}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{1}^{\nu _{1}} \biggl[{ \biggl( \log \frac{\nu _{2}}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}}-{ \biggl(\log \frac{\nu _{1}}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \biggr] \frac{f(s,x(s),y(s))}{s} \,ds \\& \qquad {}+\frac{1}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{\nu _{1}}^{\nu _{2}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{\nu _{2}}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}}\frac{f(s,x(s),y(s))}{s} \,ds \biggr\vert \\& \quad \leq \biggl\vert \frac{1}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{1}^{\nu _{1}} \biggl[{ \biggl(\log \frac{\nu _{2}}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}}-{ \biggl(\log \frac{\nu _{1}}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \biggr] \frac{\sigma _{\gamma }}{s} \,ds \\& \qquad {}+\frac{1}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{\nu _{1}}^{\nu _{2}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{\nu _{2}}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}}\frac{\sigma _{\gamma }}{s} \,ds \biggr\vert . \end{aligned}$$

Similarly,

$$\begin{aligned}& \bigl\vert \mathcal{F}_{2}\bigl(x(\nu _{2}),y(\nu _{2})\bigr)-\mathcal{F}_{2}\bigl(x(\nu _{1}),y( \nu _{1})\bigr) \bigr\vert \\& \quad \leq \biggl\vert \frac{1}{\Gamma (q)} \int _{1}^{\nu _{1}} \biggl[{ \biggl(\log \frac{\nu _{2}}{s} \biggr)^{q-1}}-{ \biggl(\log \frac{\nu _{1}}{s} \biggr)^{q-1}} \biggr] \frac{\varrho _{\gamma }}{s} \,ds \\& \qquad {}+\frac{1}{\Gamma (q)} \int _{\nu _{1}}^{\nu _{2}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{\nu _{2}}{s} \biggr)^{q-1}}\frac{\varrho _{\gamma }}{s} \,ds \biggr\vert , \end{aligned}$$

where \(1<\nu _{1}<\nu _{2}<T\). Hence, by the Leray–Schauder alternative [24], we deduce that the operator \(\mathcal{F}\) has a fixed point in \(B_{\gamma }\), which is a solution of problem (2)–(3). The proof is completed. □

4 Further existence and uniqueness results

In the next theorem, we prove the uniqueness of solutions for problem (2)–(3) via Banach’s fixed point theorem.

Theorem 2

Let \(f,g:[1,T]\times \mathbb{R}^{2}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) be jointly continuous functions and satisfy the assumption

\((K_{1})\):

There exist constants \(L_{1},L_{2}>0\) such that \(\forall t\in [1,T]\) and \(x_{\epsilon }, y_{\epsilon }\in \mathbb{R}\), \(\epsilon =1,2\),

$$\begin{aligned}& \bigl\vert f(t,x_{1},y_{1})-f(t,x_{2},y_{2}) \bigr\vert \leqslant L_{1}\bigl( \vert x_{1}-y_{1} \vert + \vert x_{2}-y_{2} \vert \bigr), \\& \bigl\vert g(t,x_{1},y_{1})-g(t,x_{2},y_{2}) \bigr\vert \leqslant L_{2}\bigl( \vert x_{1}-y_{1} \vert + \vert x_{2}-y_{2} \vert \bigr). \end{aligned}$$

Then, problem (2)–(3) has a unique solution on \([1,T]\) if \(\Lambda <1\), where

$$ \Lambda =L_{1}(m_{1}+n_{1})+L_{2}(m_{2}+n_{2}). $$
(24)

Proof

Let us define \(M_{1}\), \(M_{2}\) as finite numbers given by

$$ M_{1}=\sup_{t\in [1,T]} \bigl\vert f(t,0,0) \bigr\vert ,\qquad M_{2}=\sup_{t \in [1,T]} \bigl\vert g(t,0,0) \bigr\vert , $$

and show that \(\mathcal{F}B_{r}\subset B_{r}\), where \(B_{r}=\{(x,y)\in C[1,T]^{2}:\|(x,y)\|\leq r\}\) with

$$ r>\frac{M_{1}(m_{1}+n_{2})+M_{2}(m_{2}+n_{2})}{1-\Lambda }. $$

For any \((x,y)\in B_{r}\), \(t\in [1,T]\), using (\(K_{1}\)), we get

$$\begin{aligned} \bigl\vert f(t,x,y) \bigr\vert =& \bigl\vert f(t,x,y)-f(t,0,0)+f(t,0,0) \bigr\vert \\ \leq & \bigl\vert f(t,x,y)-f(t,0,0) \bigr\vert + \bigl\vert f(t,0,0) \bigr\vert \\ \leq & L_{1}\bigl( \bigl\vert x(t) \bigr\vert + \bigl\vert y(t) \bigr\vert \bigr)+M_{1} \leq L_{1}\bigl( \Vert x \Vert + \Vert y \Vert \bigr)+ M_{1} \leq L_{1}r+M_{1}. \end{aligned}$$

Similarly, we can establish that \(|g(t,x,y)|\leq L_{2}r+M_{2}\). Then

$$\begin{aligned}& \bigl\Vert \mathcal{F}_{1}(x,y) \bigr\Vert \\& \quad \leq \frac{1}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{1}^{t}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \frac{ \vert f(s,x(s),y(s)) \vert }{s} \,ds \\& \qquad {}+ \vert \eta \vert \Biggl[{\sum_{j=1}^{m}} \vert \alpha _{j} \vert \frac{1}{\Gamma (q)} \int _{1}^{t_{j}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t_{j}}{s} \biggr)^{q-1}} \frac{ \vert g(s,x(s),y(s)) \vert }{s} \,ds \\& \qquad {}+\sum_{j=1}^{m} \vert \alpha _{j} \vert \sum_{j=1}^{m} \vert \beta _{j} \vert \frac{1}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{1}^{t_{j}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t_{j}}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \frac{ \vert f(s,x(s),y(s)) \vert }{s} \,ds \Biggr] \\& \quad \leq \frac{(L_{1}r+M_{1})}{\Gamma (p)} \Biggl[ \int _{1}^{t}{ \biggl( \log \frac{t}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \frac{ds}{s}+ \vert \eta \vert \sum _{j=1}^{m} \vert \alpha _{j} \vert \sum _{j=1}^{m} \vert \beta _{j} \vert \int _{1}^{t_{j}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t_{j}}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \frac{ds}{s} \Biggr] \\& \qquad {}+ \frac{(L_{2}r+M_{2})}{\Gamma (q)} \Biggl[ \vert \eta \vert {\sum _{j=1}^{m}} \vert \alpha _{j} \vert \int _{1}^{t_{j}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t_{j}}{s} \biggr)^{q-1}} \frac{ds}{s} \Biggr] \\& \quad \leq \frac{(L_{1}r+M_{1})}{\Gamma (p+1)} \Biggl[(\log T)^{p}+ \vert \eta \vert ( \log T)^{p}\sum_{j=1}^{m} \vert \alpha _{j} \vert \sum_{j=1}^{m} \vert \beta _{j} \vert \Biggr] \\& \qquad {}+ \frac{(L_{2}r+M_{2})}{\Gamma (q+1)} \Biggl[ \vert \eta \vert (\log T)^{q}\sum_{j=1}^{m} \vert \alpha _{j} \vert \Biggr] \\& \quad = (L_{1}m_{1}+L_{2}m_{2})r+m_{1}M_{1}+m_{2}M_{2}. \end{aligned}$$

Similarly, we can find that

$$\begin{aligned} \bigl\Vert \mathcal{F}_{2}(x,y) \bigr\Vert \leq &(L_{1}n_{1}+L_{2}n_{2})r+n_{1}M_{1}+n_{2}M_{2}. \end{aligned}$$

Consequently, in view of (24), we get

$$ \bigl\Vert \mathcal{F}(x,y) \bigr\Vert \leq \Lambda r+M_{1}(m_{1}+n_{1})+M_{2}(m_{2}+n_{2}) \leq r, $$

which shows that \(\mathcal{F}B_{r}\subset B_{r}\).

Now, for any \((x_{1},y_{1}),(x_{2},y_{2})\in C[1,T]^{2} \) and for each \(t\in [1,T]\), we obtain

$$\begin{aligned}& \bigl\Vert \mathcal{F}_{1}(x_{1},y_{1})- \mathcal{F}_{1}(x_{2},y_{2}) \bigr\Vert \\& \quad \leq \frac{1}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{1}^{t}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \bigl\vert f\bigl(s,x_{1}(s),y_{1}(s) \bigr)-f\bigl(s,x_{2}(s),y_{2}(s)\bigr) \bigr\vert \frac{ds}{s} \\& \qquad {}+ \vert \eta \vert \Biggl[{\sum_{j=1}^{m}} \vert \alpha _{j} \vert \frac{1}{\Gamma (q)} \int _{1}^{t_{j}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t_{j}}{s} \biggr)^{q-1}} \bigl\vert g\bigl(s,x_{1}(s),y_{1}(s) \bigr)-g\bigl(s,x_{2}(s),y_{2}(s)\bigr) \bigr\vert \frac{ds}{s} \\& \qquad {}+\sum_{j=1}^{m} \vert \alpha _{j} \vert \sum_{j=1}^{m} \vert \beta _{j} \vert \frac{1}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{1}^{t_{j}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t_{j}}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \bigl\vert f\bigl(s,x_{1}(s),y_{1}(s) \bigr)-f\bigl(s,x_{2}(s),y_{2}(s)\bigr) \bigr\vert \frac{ds}{s} \Biggr] \\& \quad \leq L_{1}\bigl( \Vert x_{1}-x_{2} \Vert + \Vert y_{1}-y_{2} \Vert \bigr) \\& \qquad {}\times \frac{1}{\Gamma (p)} \Biggl[ \int _{1}^{t}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \frac{ds}{s}+ \vert \eta \vert \sum _{j=1}^{m} \vert \alpha _{j} \vert \sum _{j=1}^{m} \vert \beta _{j} \vert \int _{1}^{t_{j}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t_{j}}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \frac{ds}{s} \Biggr] \\& \qquad {}+L_{2}\bigl( \Vert x_{1}-x_{2} \Vert + \Vert y_{1}-y_{2} \Vert \bigr) \frac{1}{\Gamma (q)} \Biggl[ \vert \eta \vert {\sum_{j=1}^{m}} \vert \alpha _{j} \vert \int _{1}^{t_{j}}{ \biggl( \log \frac{t_{j}}{s} \biggr)^{q-1}} \frac{ds}{s} \Biggr] \\& \quad \leq L_{1}\bigl( \Vert x_{1}-x_{2} \Vert + \Vert y_{1}-y_{2} \Vert \bigr) \frac{1}{\Gamma (p+1)} \Biggl[(\log T)^{p}+ \vert \eta \vert (\log T)^{p}\sum _{j=1}^{m} \vert \alpha _{j} \vert \sum_{j=1}^{m} \vert \beta _{j} \vert \Biggr] \\& \qquad {}+L_{2}\bigl( \Vert x_{1}-x_{2} \Vert + \Vert y_{1}-y_{2} \Vert \bigr) \frac{1}{\Gamma (q+1)} \Biggl[ \vert \eta \vert (\log T)^{q}\sum _{j=1}^{m} \vert \alpha _{j} \vert \Biggr] \\& \quad \leq [L_{1}m_{1}+L_{2}m_{2} ] \bigl( \Vert x_{1}-x_{2} \Vert + \Vert y_{1}-y_{2} \Vert \bigr). \end{aligned}$$

Similarly, we find that

$$\begin{aligned} \bigl\Vert \mathcal{F}_{2}(x_{1},y_{1})- \mathcal{F}_{2}(x_{2},y_{2}) \bigr\Vert \leq [L_{1}n_{1}+L_{2}n_{2} ]\bigl( \Vert x_{1}-x_{2} \Vert + \Vert y_{1}-y_{2} \Vert \bigr). \end{aligned}$$

Consequently, we get

$$\begin{aligned} \bigl\Vert \mathcal{F}(x_{1},y_{1})-\mathcal{F}(x_{2},y_{2}) \bigr\Vert \leq \Lambda \bigl( \Vert x_{1}-x_{2} \Vert + \Vert y_{1}-y_{2} \Vert \bigr), \end{aligned}$$

which, by condition (24), implies that the operator \(\mathcal{F}\) is a contraction. Hence the conclusion of Banach fixed point theorem applies, and consequently there exists a unique solution for the problem (2)–(3). The proof is complete. □

In the following result, we make use of the Leray–Schauder nonlinear alternative.

Theorem 3

Assume that

\((O_{1})\):

\(f, g:[1,T]\times \mathbb{R}^{2} \rightarrow \mathbb{R} \) are jointly continuous functions;

\((O_{2})\):

There exist functions \(k_{1}, k_{2}\in L^{1}([1,T],\mathbb{R}^{+})\) and nondecreasing functions \(\Omega _{1}, \Omega _{2}, \Phi _{1}, \Phi _{2}: \mathbb{R}^{+} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^{+} \) such that \(|f(t,x,y)|\leq k_{1}(t)[\Omega _{1}(\|x\|)+\Phi _{1}(\|y\|)] \), \(|g(t,x,y)| \leq k_{2}(t)[\Omega _{2}(\|x\|)+\Phi _{2}(\|y\|)] \), for all \((t,x,y)\in [1,T]\times \mathbb{R}^{2}\).

\((O_{3})\):

There exists a constant \(S> 0\) such that

$$ \frac{S}{(l_{1}+l_{4})[\Omega _{1}(S)+\Phi _{1}(S)]+(l_{2}+l_{3})[\Omega _{2}(S)+\Phi _{2}(S)]}>1, $$

where \(h_{i}\), \(i=1,2,3,4\) are defined by (11).

Then problem (2)–(3) has at least one solution on \([1,T]\).

Proof

We show the boundedness of the set of all solutions to equations \((x,y)=\lambda \mathcal{F} (x,y)\) for \(\lambda \in [0, 1]\). For that, let \((x,y)\) be a solution of \((x,y)=\lambda \mathcal{F} (x,y)\) for \(\lambda \in [0, 1]\). Then, for \(t\in [1, T]\), we have

$$\begin{aligned} \bigl\vert x(t) \bigr\vert =& \bigl\vert \lambda \mathcal{F}_{1}(x,y) (t) \bigr\vert \\ =& \lambda \Biggl\vert \frac{1}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{1}^{t}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \frac{f(s,x(s),y(s))}{s} \,ds \\ &{}-\eta \Biggl[{\sum_{j=1}^{m}}\alpha _{j} \frac{1}{\Gamma (q)} \int _{1}^{t_{j}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t_{j}}{s} \biggr)^{q-1}} \frac{g(s,x(s),y(s))}{s} \,ds \\ &{}-\sum_{j=1}^{m}\alpha _{j} \sum_{j=1}^{m}\beta _{j} \frac{1}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{1}^{t_{j}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t_{j}}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \frac{f(s,x(s),y(s))}{s} \,ds \Biggr] \Biggr\vert \\ \leq & \frac{1}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{1}^{T}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \frac{k_{1}(s)[\Omega _{1}( \Vert x \Vert )+\Phi _{1}( \Vert y \Vert )]}{s} \,ds \\ &{}+ \vert \eta \vert \Biggl[{\sum_{j=1}^{m}} \vert \alpha _{j} \vert \frac{1}{\Gamma (q)} \int _{1}^{t_{j}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t_{j}}{s} \biggr)^{q-1}} \frac{k_{2}(s)[\Omega _{2}( \Vert x \Vert )+\Phi _{2}( \Vert y \Vert )]}{s} \,ds \\ &{}+\sum_{j=1}^{m} \vert \alpha _{j} \vert \sum_{j=1}^{m} \vert \beta _{j} \vert \frac{1}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{1}^{t_{j}}{ \biggl(\log \frac{t_{j}}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \frac{k_{1}(s)[\Omega _{1}( \Vert x \Vert )+\Phi _{1}( \Vert y \Vert )]}{s} \,ds \Biggr] \\ \leq & B \bigl[\Omega _{1}\bigl( \Vert x \Vert \bigr)+\Phi _{1}\bigl( \Vert y \Vert \bigr)\bigr] \frac{1}{\Gamma (p)} \int _{1}^{T}{ \biggl(\log \frac{T}{s} \biggr)^{p-1}} \frac{k_{1}(s)}{s} \,ds \\ &{}+ C \bigl[\Omega _{2}\bigl( \Vert x \Vert \bigr)+\Phi _{2}\bigl( \Vert y \Vert \bigr)\bigr] \frac{1}{\Gamma (q)} \int _{1}^{T}{ \biggl(\log \frac{T}{s} \biggr)^{q-1}} \frac{k_{2}(s)}{s} \,ds \\ \leq & l_{1} \bigl[\Omega _{1}\bigl( \Vert x \Vert \bigr)+\Phi _{1}\bigl( \Vert y \Vert \bigr)\bigr]+ l_{2} \bigl[\Omega _{2}\bigl( \Vert x \Vert \bigr)+\Phi _{2} \bigl( \Vert y \Vert \bigr)\bigr]. \end{aligned}$$

Similarly, we have

$$ \bigl\vert y(t) \bigr\vert \le l_{3} \bigl[\Omega _{2} \bigl( \Vert x \Vert \bigr)+\Phi _{2}\bigl( \Vert y \Vert \bigr) \bigr]+ l_{4} \bigl[ \Omega _{1}\bigl( \Vert x \Vert \bigr)+\Phi _{1}\bigl( \Vert y \Vert \bigr)\bigr]. $$

For each \(t\in [1,T]\), we obtain

$$ \Vert x \Vert \leq l_{1} \bigl[\Omega _{1}\bigl( \Vert x \Vert \bigr)+\Phi _{1}\bigl( \Vert y \Vert \bigr)\bigr]+ l_{2} \bigl[ \Omega _{2}\bigl( \Vert x \Vert \bigr)+\Phi _{2}\bigl( \Vert y \Vert \bigr)\bigr] $$

and

$$ \Vert y \Vert \leq l_{3} \bigl[\Omega _{2}\bigl( \Vert x \Vert \bigr)+\Phi _{2}\bigl( \Vert y \Vert \bigr)\bigr]+ l_{4} \bigl[ \Omega _{1}\bigl( \Vert x \Vert \bigr)+\Phi _{1}\bigl( \Vert y \Vert \bigr)\bigr]. $$

Hence we obtain

$$\begin{aligned} \bigl\Vert (x,y) \bigr\Vert =& \Vert x \Vert + \Vert y \Vert \\ \leq & (l_{1}+l_{4})\bigl[\Omega _{1}\bigl( \Vert x \Vert \bigr)+\Phi _{1}\bigl( \Vert y \Vert \bigr)\bigr] + (l_{2}+l_{3})\bigl[ \Omega _{2}\bigl( \Vert x \Vert \bigr)+\Phi _{2}\bigl( \Vert y \Vert \bigr)\bigr], \end{aligned}$$

which implies that

$$ \frac{ \Vert (x,y) \Vert }{(l_{1}+l_{4})[\Omega _{1}( \Vert x \Vert )+\Phi _{1}( \Vert y \Vert )]+(l_{2}+l_{3})[\Omega _{2}( \Vert x \Vert )+\Phi _{2}( \Vert y \Vert )]} \leq 1. $$

In view of \((O_{3})\), there exists S such that \((x,y)\neq S\). Let us set

$$ U=\bigl\{ (x,y)\in X\times Y: \bigl\Vert (x,y) \bigr\Vert < S\bigr\} . $$

As in the proof (last step) of Theorem 1, it can be shown that the operator \(\mathcal{F}: U \rightarrow X\) is continuous and completely continuous. From the choice of U, there is no \((x,y)\in \partial U\) such that \((x,y) = \lambda \mathcal{F}(x,y)\) for some \(\lambda \in (0,1)\). Consequently, by the nonlinear alternative of Leray–Schauder, we deduce that \(\mathcal{F}\) has a fixed point \((x,y)\in U\), which is a solution of the problem (2)–(3). This completes the proof. □

Example 1

Consider the following Hadamard-type nonlocal problem:

$$ \textstyle\begin{cases} {}^{H}D^{3/14}x(t)=f(t,x(t),y(t)), & 1< t< e, \\ {}^{H}D^{3/17}y(t)=g(t,x(t),y(t)), \end{cases} $$
(25)

subject to the initial conditions:

$$ \textstyle\begin{cases} x(1)+\sum_{j=1}^{4}\alpha _{j} y(t_{j})=0, \\ y(1)+\sum_{j=1}^{4}\beta _{j} x(t_{j})=0. \end{cases} $$
(26)

Here, \(p=3/14\), \(q =3/17\), \(T=e\), \(\alpha _{1}=1/3 \), \(\alpha _{2}=1/9 \), \(\alpha _{3}=1/27 \), \(\alpha _{4}=1/81 \), \(\beta _{1}=2/3 \), \(\beta _{2}=4/9 \), \(\beta _{3}=8/27 \), \(\beta _{4}=16/81 \), \(t_{1}=5/4 \), \(t_{2}=3/2 \), \(t_{3}=7/4 \), and \(t_{4}=2 \). With the given data, the values of B, C, D, \(m_{1}\), \(m_{2}\), \(n_{1}\), and \(n_{2}\) defined by (11) are found to be \(\eta =6561/4691\), \(B=6561/4691\), \(C=3240/4691\), \(D=10530/4691\), \(m_{1} \approx 1.529394 \), \(m_{2}\approx 0.746878 \), \(n_{1}\approx 1.512428 \), and \(n_{2}\approx 2.454584\). In order to illustrate Theorem 2, we take

$$\begin{aligned}& f\bigl(t,x(t),y(t)\bigr)=\frac{1}{19\sqrt{168+t^{4}}} \biggl( \frac{ \vert x(t) \vert }{1+ \vert x(t) \vert }+\tan ^{-1}y(t) \biggr)+\cos 2t, \\& g\bigl(t,x(t),y(t)\bigr)=\frac{1}{7\sqrt{323+t^{2}}}\bigl(x(t)+\tan ^{-1}x(t) \bigr)+ \frac{1}{\sqrt{676}+99+t^{2}} \biggl(\frac{ \vert y(t) \vert }{1+ \vert y(t) \vert }+\sin 2t \biggr). \end{aligned}$$

Clearly, \(L_{1} = 1/247\) as \(\vert f(t,x_{1},y_{1})-f(t,x_{2},y_{2}) \vert \leqslant \frac{1}{247}(|x_{1}-y_{1}|+|y_{1}-y_{2}|)\) and \(L_{2} = 1/126\) as \(\vert g(t,x_{1},y_{1})-g(t,x_{2},y_{2}) \vert \leqslant \frac{1}{126}(|x_{1}-y_{1}|+|y_{1}-y_{2}|)\). Using the given data, we have \(\Lambda \approx 0.037723<1\). Obviously, the hypotheses of Theorem 2 are satisfied. Hence, by the conclusion of Theorem 2, there is a unique solution for the problem (25)–(26) on \([1,e]\).

5 Conclusions

We have investigated the existence of solutions for a coupled system of Hadamard fractional differential equations with nonlocal coupled initial-multipoint conditions. The existence result is based on the idea of splitting the growth conditions into two subintervals, respectively containing the points involved in the nonlocal condition, and the rest of the interval. We apply Leray–Schauder alternative to prove this result. On the other hand, the uniqueness of solutions for the given problem is established by means of the contraction mapping principle. Our results are new and contribute to the existing literature on nonlocal nonlinear Hadamard-type boundary value problems.

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Ahmad, B., Ntouyas, S.K., Alsaedi, A. et al. A study of a coupled system of Hadamard fractional differential equations with nonlocal coupled initial-multipoint conditions. Adv Differ Equ 2021, 33 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13662-020-03198-4

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