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q-Fractional calculus for Rubin’s q-difference operator
Advances in Difference Equations volume 2013, Article number: 276 (2013)
Abstract
In this paper we introduce a fractional q-integral operator and derivative as a generalization of Rubin’s q-difference operator. We also reformulate the definition of the -Fourier transform and the q-analogue of the Fourier multiplier introduced by Rubin in (J. Math. Anal. Appl. 212(2):571-582, 1997; Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 135(3):777-785, 2007). As applications, we give summation formulas for finite series, we also use the -Fourier transform and Hahn q-Laplace transform to solve a fractional q-diffusion equation.
MSC:39A12, 33D15, 42A38, 35R11.
1 Introduction and preliminaries
Let q be a positive number, . In the following, we follow the notations and notions of q-hypergeometric functions, the q-gamma function , Jackson q-exponential functions , and the q-shifted factorial as in [1, 2]. The q-difference operator is defined by
Jackson [3] introduced an integral denoted by
as a right inverse of the q-derivative. It is defined by
where
provided that the series on the right-hand side of (1.3) converges at .
There is no unique canonical choice for the q-integration over . In [4], Hahn defined the q-integration for a function f over by
while in [5] Matsuo defined q-integrations on the interval and by
respectively, provided that the series converges absolutely. For any and , we define the spaces
We shall use the particular notation , and to denote , and , respectively. One can verify that associated with the inner product
is a Hilbert space. The Riemann-Liouville fractional q-integral operator is introduced by Al-Salam in [6] and later by Agarwal in [7] and defined by
Using (1.3), (1.6) reduces to
which is valid for all α. The Riemann-Liouville fractional q-derivative of order α, , is defined by
Rubin in [8, 9] introduced the q-difference operator
It is straightforward to prove that if a function f is differentiable at a point z, then
Also,
Let f and g be functions defined on a set A, where A satisfies
and let and be the even and odd parts of f, respectively. The following properties of the operator are from [9, 10] and hold for all .
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(i)
.
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(ii)
For two functions f and g,
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if f is even and g is odd, then
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if f and g are even, then
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if f and g are odd, then
The q-translation is introduced by Ismail in [2] and is defined on monomials by
and it is extended to polynomials as a linear operator. Thus
The q-translation operator is defined for , , to be
In [4], Hahn defined the following q-analogue of the Laplace transform:
Abdi [11] studied certain properties of these q-transforms. In [12], he used these analogues to solve linear q-difference equations with constant coefficients and certain allied equations. In [[4], equation (9.5)], Hahn defined the convolution of two functions F, G to be
where , for
is defined to be
Using the definition of q-integration, is nothing but
where ε is the translation operator (1.10). It is remarked by Hahn [[4], p.373] that the convolution theorem
holds. One can verify that if and , then
see [13].
2 Orthogonality relations and completeness criteria
Koornwinder and Swarttouw introduced a q-analogue of the cosine and sine Fourier transform in [14] with the functions and defined by
A q-analogue of the exponential function is introduced in [8, 9] and defined by
Straightforward calculations give
and
where and λ is a fixed complex number. Fitouhi et al. in [15] proved that
Hence,
and
Consequently,
The following orthogonality relation is proved in [14].
Theorem 2.1 Let and n, m be integers. Then
where the sum converges absolutely and uniformly on compact subsets of the open unit disc.
The following identity, which follows from (2.5) when we replace q by and z by , , is essential in our investigations.
Theorem 2.2 For ,
and
Proof We start with proving (2.7). Since
In (2.6), set to obtain
Combining (2.10) and (2.11) yields (2.7). The proof of (2.8) follows similarly and the proof of (2.9) follows by combining (2.7) and (2.8). □
Theorem 2.3 For any ,
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(a)
the set is a complete orthogonal set in ,
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(b)
both of the sets and are complete orthogonal sets in .
Proof We only proove (a). The proof of (b) is similar and is omitted. From Theorem 2.2, it remains only to prove that the set is complete in . This is equivalent to proving that if there exists a function such that
then
From (2.12) we deduce
where and are the even and odd parts of the function f. Then from (3.8)-(3.9) we obtain for all . Hence is a complete orthogonal set in . □
Theorem 2.4
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(1)
If , then
(2.13)
where
and .
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(2)
If , then
(2.14)
where
and
Proof The proof of (1) follows directly from Theorem 2.3 and the orthogonality relations (2.9). In the following we give in detail the proof of (2). Let be any function in . Clearly both and belong to . The restriction of to can be represented in the complete orthogonal set as
where
The orthogonal set also spans , hence
where
Because both sides of (2.15) are even functions on , the equality extends on ; and similarly the two sides of (2.16). Hence we have the representation (2.14) of any . □
3 Rubin’s -Fourier transform
Koornwinder and Swarttouw [14] introduced the pair of q-transforms
where and f, g are in the space . Now assume that or, equivalently,
Then, by replacing and in (3.1) by and , and then and by and , Koornwinder and Swarttouw obtained the following q-analogue of the cosine and sine Fourier transforms:
Therefore, if we let for such q’s that satisfy (3.2), we obtain the cosine and sine Fourier transforms
The pair of functions and satisfy
Therefore, the eigenfunctions have two different eigenvalues. Consequently, as remarked by Koornwinder and Swarttouw in [14], no q-exponential functions built from will satisfy an eigenfunction problem. This motivated Rubin [8] to define the q-difference operator (1.8) since for this operator, the functions are solutions of the eigenvalue problem
Rubin [8] introduced a -analogue of the Fourier transform in the form
where and q satisfies condition (3.2).
Remark 3.1 Rubin [9] proved that
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(1)
the -Fourier transform defines a bounded linear operator from to ,
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(2)
the -Fourier transform is defined and bounded on ,
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(3)
is dense in (consider the functions with finite support).
Consequently, the -Fourier transform defines a bounded extension to .
Koornwinder and Swarttouw introduced the q-Hankel transforms (3.1) which can be written in the form (3.3) only if q satisfies condition (3.2). In fact, we can write the q-transforms in (3.1) as q-integral on by using Matsuo definition (1.4) as in the following. Rewrite the transform pair in (3.1) as
where we assume that the functions f and g are in the space . Using Matsuo definition of the q-integration on , (1.4) with , the transformations in (3.7) can be written as
and
where and f, g are in . This is similar to Rubin’s work in [9]. Consequently, we set the following reformulation of Rubin’s definition of the -Fourier transform (3.6).
Definition 3.2 Let . We define the -Fourier transform for any function to be
It is clear that Rubin’s definition of the -Fourier transform is a special case of (3.2) because if for some , then
However, we get the classical Fourier transform only when and q satisfies (3.2). Similar to Rubin’s results mentioned in Remark 3.1, we can prove that the -Fourier transform defines a bounded linear operator from to , and is dense in . Therefore, the -Fourier transform in (3.2) defines a bounded extension to .
The proofs of the following results, which are valid for any , are similar to the proofs in [8]. Therefore, we state them without proofs.
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(1)
If , then
(3.11) -
(2)
If and , then
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(3)
If f and , then
(3.12)
We reformulate the definitions of -Fourier multiplier and the -Fourier convolution formula introduced by Rubin in [9] with the restriction (3.2) to any .
Definition 3.3 Let . We define the -Fourier multiplier operator corresponding to translation by y to be
whenever the q-integral makes sense. If and , we define the multiplier corresponding to Fourier convolution of f with g to be
Theorem 3.4 Let f and g be two functions in . Then
Proof The proof of (3.15) is completely similar to the proof of [[9], Theorem 8] and is omitted. □
4 Fractional q-operator as a generalization of a q-difference operator
Let f be an integrable function of period 2π. Weyl, see Zygmund’s book [16], introduced a fractional operator which is more convenient for trigonometric series than the Riemann-Liouville fractional operator. This operator is defined by
where . Zygmund [[16], p.133] pointed out that
He also proved the semigroup identity
In [17], Ismail and Rahman defined a q-analogue of the fractional operator , so that represents a right inverse of the Askey-Wilson operator which is defined by
where with .
In this section, we introduce a q-analogue of the fractional operator (4.1) as a generalization of the q-difference operator defined by Rubin in [8]. From Theorem 2.3, consequently,
where
Lemma 4.1 The series
is absolutely convergent only when .
Proof The series in (4.2) can be written as
From (2.4), the series is absolutely convergent for and diverges for , while the series is absolutely convergent for all . □
Set
where and is defined with respect to the principal branch, i.e., .
Lemma 4.2 For and ,
Proof The proof follows directly by using that
□
A direct calculation yields the following identity, which holds for ,
where
and
Theorem 4.3 For ,
where
Moreover,
Proof Using the following formula from [[14], p.455]
where , we can prove that
where and
Also,
Hence, if and , then
Also,
Substituting from (4.10)-(4.13) into (4.3) yields the values and the theorem follows. □
Remark 4.4 In the previous theorem, we calculated the value of , and for specific values of x, t. We can calculate the values of for all x, t by using the identity
for . See Proposition 4.1 of [14].
In this case we have
Corollary 4.5 For each fixed , the function as a function of α can be extended to an entire function on ℂ.
Proof If α is a positive integer, then the series on the right-hand sides of (4.6)-(4.9) are finite sums and hence are convergent. Since the zeros of the function are the poles of the function with the same orders. In fact
Similarly, the zeros of the function are the poles of the function with the same orders and
Then the left-hand sides of equations (4.6)-(4.9) are entire functions. Hence, as a function of α, the functions () can be analytically extended by defining its values when by the left-hand sides of (4.6)-(4.9). □
It also should be noted that for , the left-hand sides of (4.6) and (4.7) determine for all , which is different from the case of ; see Remark 4.4.
Definition 4.6 For , we define a fractional q-integral operator on by
The following properties follow at once from (4.3) and their analytic continuation on ℂ.
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If and f is even, then
where
and