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Lattictic non-archimedean random stability of ACQ functional equation
Advances in Difference Equations volume 2011, Article number: 31 (2011)
Abstract
In this paper, we prove the generalized Hyers-Ulam stability of the following additive-cubic-quartic functional equation
in various complete lattictic random normed spaces.
Mathematics Subject Classification (2000) Primary 54E40; Secondary 39B82, 46S50, 46S40.
1. Introduction
Probability theory is a powerful hand set for modeling uncertainty and vagueness in various problems arising in the field of science and engineering. It has also very useful applications in various fields, e.g., population dynamics, chaos control, computer programming, nonlinear dynamical systems, nonlinear operators, statistical convergence and others. The random topology proves to be a very useful tool to deal with such situations where the use of classical theories breaks down. The usual uncertainty principle of Werner Heisenberg leads to a generalized uncertainty principle, which has been motivated by string theory and non-commutative geometry. In strong quantum gravity, regime space-time points are determined in a random manner. Thus, impossibility of determining the position of particles gives the space-time a random structure. Because of this random structure, position space representation of quantum mechanics breaks down and so a generalized normed space of quasi-position eigenfunction is required. Hence one needs to discuss on a new family of random norms. There are many situations where the norm of a vector is not possible to be found and the concept of random norm seems to be more suitable in such cases, i.e., we can deal with such situations by modeling the inexactness through the random norm.
The stability problem of functional equations originated from a question of Ulam [1] concerning the stability of group homomorphisms. Hyers [2] gave a first affirmative partial answer to the question of Ulam for Banach spaces. Hyers' Theorem was generalized by Aoki [3] for additive mappings and by Rassias [4] for linear mappings by considering an unbounded Cauchy difference. The paper of Rassias [4] has provided a lot of influence in the development of what we call generalized Hyers-Ulam stability or as Hyers-Ulam-Rassias stability of functional equations. A generalization of the Rassias theorem was obtained by Găvruta [5] by replacing the unbounded Cauchy difference by a general control function in the spirit of Rassias approach.
The stability problems of several functional equations have been extensively investigated by a number of authors and there are many interesting results concerning this problem (see [4, 6–27]).
In [28, 29], Jun and Kim considered the following cubic functional equation
It is easy to show that the function f(x) = x 3 satisfies the functional equation (2), which is called a cubic functional equation and every solution of the cubic functional equation is said to be a cubic mapping.
In [8], Lee et al. considered the following quartic functional equation
It is easy to show that the function f(x) = x 4 satisfies the functional equation (3), which is called a quartic functional equation and every solution of the quartic functional equation is said to be a quartic mapping.
Let X be a set. A function d : X × X → [0, ∞] is called a generalized metric on X if d satisfies the following conditions:
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d(x, y) = 0 if and only if x = y;
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d(x, y) = d(y, x) for all x, y ∈ X;
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d(x, z) ≤ d(x, y) + d(y, z) for all x, y, z ∈ X.
We recall a fundamental result in fixed point theory.
Theorem 1.1. [30, 31] Let (X, d) be a complete generalized metric space and J : X → X be a strictly contractive mapping with Lipschitz constant L < 1. Then, for any x ∈ X, either
for all nonnegative integers n or there exists a positive integer n 0 such that
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d(J n x, J n+1 x) < ∞ for all n ≥ n 0;
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the sequence {J n x} converges to a fixed point y* of J;
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y* is the unique fixed point of J in the set ;
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for all y ∈ Y.
In 1996, Isac and Rassias [32] were the first to provide applications of stability theory of functional equations for the proof of new fixed point theorems with applications. Using fixed point methods, the stability problems of several functional equations have been extensively investigated by a number of authors (see [33–38]).
2. Preliminaries
The theory of random normed spaces (RN-spaces) is important as a generalization of deterministic result of linear normed spaces and also in the study of random operator equations. The RN-spaces may also provide us the appropriate tools to study the geometry of nuclear physics and have important application in quantum particle physics. The generalized Hyers-Ulam stability of different functional equations in random normed spaces, RN-spaces and fuzzy normed spaces has been recently studied by Alsina [39], Mirmostafaee, Mirzavaziri and Moslehian [40, 35], Miheţ, and Radu [41], Miheţ, et al. [42, 43], Baktash et. al [44], Najati [45] and Saadati et. al. [24].
Let be a complete lattice, i.e., a partially ordered set in which every nonempty subset admits supremum and infimum and , . The space of latticetic random distribution functions, denoted by , is defined as the set of all mappings F : ℝ ∪ {-∞, +∞} → L such that F is left continuous, non-decreasing on ℝ and , .
The subspace is defined as , where l - f(x) denotes the left limit of the function f at the point x. The space is partially ordered by the usual point-wise ordering of functions, i.e., F ≥ G if and only if F(t) ≥ L G(t) for all t in ℝ. The maximal element for in this order is the distribution function given by
Definition 2.1. [46] A triangular norm (t-norm) on L is a mapping satisfying the following conditions:
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(: boundary condition);
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(: commutativity);
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(: associativity);
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(∀(x, x', y, y') ∈ (L)4)(x ≤ L x' and (: monotonicity).
Let {x n } be a sequence in L converges to x ∈ L (equipped the order topology). The t-norm is called a continuous t-norm if
for any y ∈ L.
A t-norm can be extended (by associativity) in a unique way to an n-array operation taking for (x 1, ..., x n ) ∈ L n the value defined by
The t-norm can also be extended to a countable operation taking, for any sequence {x n } in L, the value
The limit on the right side of (4) exists since the sequence is non-increasing and bounded from below.
Note that we put whenever L = [0, 1]. If T is a t-norm then, for all x ∈ [0, 1] and n ∈ N ∪ {0}, is defined by 1 if n = 0 and if n ≥ 1. A t-norm T is said to be of Hadžić-type (we denote by ) if the family is equicontinuous at x = 1 (see [47]).
Definition 2.2. [46] A continuous t-norm on L = [0, 1]2 is said to be continuous t-representable if there exist a continuous t-norm * and a continuous t-conorm ◇ on [0, 1] such that, for all x = (x 1, x 2), y = (y 1, y 2) ∈ L,
For example,
and
for all a = (a 1, a 2), b = (b 1, b 2) ∈ [0, 1]2 are continuous t-representable.
Define the mapping from L 2 to L by
Recall (see [47, 48]) that, if {x n } is a given sequence in L, then is defined recurrently by and for all n ≥ 2.
A negation on is any decreasing mapping satisfying and . If for all x ∈ L, then is called an involutive negation. In the following, is endowed with a (fixed) negation .
Definition 2.3. A latticetic random normed space is a triple , where X is a vector space and μ is a mapping from X into satisfying the following conditions:
(LRN1) μ x (t) = ε 0(t) for all t > 0 if and only if x = 0;
(LRN2) for all x in X, α ≠ 0 and t ≥ 0;
(LRN3) for all x, y ∈ X and t, s ≥ 0.
We note that, from (LPN2), it follows μ -x (t) = μ x (t) for all x ∈ X and t ≥ 0.
Example 2.4. Let L = [0, 1] × [0, 1] and an operation ≤ L be defined by
Then (L, ≤ L ) is a complete lattice (see [46]). In this complete lattice, we denote its units by 0 L = (0, 1) and 1 L = (1, 0). Let (X, ||·||) be a normed space. Let for all a = (a 1, a 2), b = (b 1, b 2) ∈ [0, 1] × [0, 1] and μ be a mapping defined by
Then, is a latticetic random normed spaces.
If is a latticetic random normed space, then we have
is a complete system of neighborhoods of null vector for a linear topology on X generated by the norm F, where
Definition 2.5. Let be a latticetic random normed spaces.
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A sequence {x n } in X is said to be convergent to a point x ∈ X if, for any t > 0 and , there exists a positive integer N such that for all n ≥ N.
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A sequence {x n } in X is called a Cauchy sequence if, for any t > 0 and , there exists a positive integer N such that for all n ≥ m ≥ N.
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A latticetic random normed space is said to be complete if every Cauchy sequence in X is convergent to a point in X.
Theorem 2.6. If is a latticetic random normed space and {x n } is a sequence such that x n → x, then .
Proof. The proof is the same as classical random normed spaces (see [49]). □
Lemma 2.7. Let be a latticetic random normed space and x ∈ X. If
then and x = 0.
Proof. Let μ x (t) = C for all t > 0. Since , we have and, by (LRN1), we conclude that x = 0. □
3. Non-Archimedean Lattictic random normed space
By a non-Archimedean field, we mean a field equipped with a function (valuation) | · | from K into [0, ∞) such that |r| = 0 if and only if r = 0, |rs| = |r| |s| and |r + s| ≤ max{|r|, |s|} for all . Clearly, |1| = | - 1| = 1 and |n| ≤ 1 for all n ∈ ℕ. By the trivial valuation we mean the mapping | · | taking everything but 0 into 1 and |0| = 0.
Let be a vector space over a field with a non-Archimedean non-trivial valuation | · |. A function is called a non-Archimedean norm, if it satisfies the following conditions:
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||x|| = 0 if and only if x = 0;
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for any , , ||rx|| = |r| ||x||;
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the strong triangle inequality (ultrametric), i.e.,
Then is called a non-Archimedean normed space.
Due to the fact that
a sequence {x n } is a Cauchy sequence if and only if {x n+1- x n } converges to zero in a non-Archimedean normed space. By a complete non-Archimedean normed space, we mean one in which every Cauchy sequence is convergent.
In 1897, Hensel [50] discovered the p-adic numbers as a number theoretical analogue of power series in complex analysis. Fix a prime number p. For any nonzero rational number x, there exists a unique integer n x ∈ ℤ such that , where a and b are integers not divisible by p. Then, defines a non-Archimedean norm on . The completion of with respect to the metric d(x, y) = |x - y| p is denoted by , which is called the p-adic number field.
Throughout the paper, we assume that is a vector space and is a complete non-Archimedean normed space.
Definition 3.1. A non-Archimedean lattictic random normed space (briefly, non-Archimedean LRN-space) is a triple , where X is a linear space over a non-Archimedean field , is a continuous t-norm and is μ is a mapping from into satisfying the following conditions hold:
(NA-LRN1) μ x (t) = ε 0(t) for all t > 0 if and only if x = 0;
(NA-LRN2) for all , t > 0, α ≠ 0;
(NA-LRN3) for all and t, s ≥ 0.
It is easy to see that, if (NA-LRN3) holds, then we have
(RN3) .
As a classical example, if is a non-Archimedean normed linear space, then the triple , where L = [0, 1], and
is a non-Archimedean LRN-space.
Example 3.2. Let be is a non-Archimedean normed linear space in which L = [0, 1]. Define
Then is a non-Archimedean RN-space.
Definition 3.3. Let be a non-Archimedean LRN-space and {x n } be a sequence in .
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The sequence {x n } is said to be convergent if there exists such that
for all t > 0. In that case, x is called the limit of the sequence {x n }.
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The sequence {x n } in is called a Cauchy sequence if, for any and t > 0, there exists a poisitve integer n 0 such that, for all n ≥ n 0 and p > 0, .
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If every Cauchy sequence is convergent, then the random norm is said to be complete and the non-Archimedean RN-space is called a non-Archimedean random Banach space.
Remark 3.4. [51] Let be a non-Archimedean LRN-space. Then, we have
Thus the sequence {x n } is Cauchy sequence if, for any and t > 0, there exists a positive integer n 0 such that, for all n ≥ n 0,
4. Generalized Ulam-Hyers stability for functional equation (1): an odd case in non-Archimedean LRN-spaces
Let be a non-Archimedean field, be a vector space over and be a non-Archimedean random Banach space over In this section, we investigate the stability of the functional equation (1): an odd case where f is a mapping from to .
Let Ψ be a distribution function on to (Ψ(x, y, t) denoted by Ψ x,y (t) such that
Definition 4.1. A mapping is said to be Ψ-approximately mixed ACQ if
We assume that 2 ≠ 0 in (i.e., the characteristic of is not 2). Our main result, in this section, is as follows:
Theorem 4.2. Let be a non-Archimedean field, be a vector space over and be a non-Archimedean complete LRN-space over Let be an odd and Ψ-approximately mixed ACQ mapping. If, for some α ∈ ℝ, α > 0, and some integer k, k > 3 with |2k| < α,
and
then there exists a unique cubic mapping such that
where
Proof. First, by induction on j, we show that for any , t > 0 and j ≥ 2,
Putting y = 0 in (5), we obtain
This proves (9) for j = 2. Assume that (9) holds for some j ≥ 2. Replacing y by 0 and x by 4j x in (5), we get
Since |256| ≤ 1, we have
Thus (9) holds for all j ≥ 2. In particular,
Replacing x by 4-(kn+k) x in (10) and using inequality (6), we obtain
Then, we have
and so
Since for all and t > 0, is a Cauchy sequence in the non-Archimedean random Banach space . Hence we can define a mapping such that
Next, for all n ≥ 1, and t > 0, we have
Therefore, it follows that
By letting n → ∞, we obtain
which proves (8). Since T is continuous, from a well-known result in probabilistic metric space (see [49], Chapter 12), it follows that
for almost all t > 0., where
and
On the other hand, replacing x, y by 4-kn x, 4-kn y, respectively, in (5) and using (NA-RN2) and (6), we get
Since , it follows that Q is a quartic mapping.
If is another quartic mapping such that μ Q'(x)-f(x)(t) ≥ M(x, t) for all and t > 0, then, for all n ∈ N, and t > 0,
Therefore, by (12), we conclude that Q = Q'. This completes the proof. □
Corollary 4.3. Let be a non-Archimedean field, be a vector space over and be a non-Archimedean random Banach space over under a t-norm . Let be a Ψ-approximately quartic mapping. If, for some α ∈ ℝ, α > 0, and some integer k, k > 3, with |4k| < α
then there exists a unique quartic mapping such that
where
Proof. Since
and T is of Hadžić type, it follows that
Now, if we apply Theorem 4.2, we get the conclusion. □
Example 4.4. Let non-Archimedean random normed space in which
and a complete non-Archimedean random normed space (see Example 3.2). Define
It is easy to see that (6) holds for α = 1. Also, since
we have
Let be a Ψ-approximately quartic mapping. Thus, all the conditions of Theorem 4.2 hold and so there exists a unique quartic mapping such that
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The authors would like to thank the referee and area editor Professor T. Gnana Bhaskar for giving useful suggestions and comments for the improvement of this paper. Yeol Je Cho was also supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (Grant Number: 2011-0021821)
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Cho, Y.J., Saadati, R. Lattictic non-archimedean random stability of ACQ functional equation. Adv Differ Equ 2011, 31 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1186/1687-1847-2011-31
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Keywords
- Stability
- Random normed space
- Fixed point
- Generalized Hyers-Ulam stability
- Additive-cubic-quartic functional equation
- Lattice
- non-Archimedean normed spaces