For a n-order E-valued differential equation
we say that it has the Hyers-Ulam stability or it is stable in the sense of Hyers-Ulam sense if for a given and a n times strongly differentiable function satisfying for all , then there exists an exact solution h of this equation such that for all , where depends only on ϵ, and . More generally, if ϵ and are replaced by two control functions , respectively, we say that the above differential equation has the Hyers-Ulam-Rassias stability or it is stable in the sense of Hyers-Ulam-Rassias.
The following theorem is the main result of this paper.
Theorem 2.1 Let be a function such that is integrable on the interval for each with . Suppose that satisfies the differential inequality
(2)
for all . Moreover, assume that the equation
(3)
has a solution on , where corresponds to . Then there exists such that h satisfies Eq. (1) and
(4)
for all , where is an arbitrary fixed point.
Proof Firstly, we take the solution of Eq. (3) and make an appropriate substitution for the variable x. Obviously, the condition , implies that the inverse function exists on I.
Now, we define the map by for each . Obviously, . Then we can obtain
Moreover, since , we get for each . Thus, it follows from Eq. (3) that
which implies that for each .
Therefore, we have
for all . Note that for each . Based on the inequality (2) and the preceding equality, we can obtain
(5)
for all .
We set , . Then we have
It follows that . Multiplying both sides of the previous equality by , , we obtain
By integrating both sides of the above equality from (here is an arbitrary fixed point in J) to s with respect to τ, , it follows that
Furthermore, we can infer that
for all .
In view of , for each , we have
Analogously, by integrating both sides of the last equality from to t with respect to s, we conclude that
(6)
Define the map by
(7)
Clearly, . Therefore, we can infer that
and thus
(8)
From the equalities (7) and (8), it is easy to see that for each . Furthermore, we can infer from Eq. (6) that
for each . Then, by Eq. (5), we can obtain
(9)
Finally, we define the map by
Therefore, we get
(10)
Furthermore, we can obtain
(11)
According to the derivative of the inverse function, it follows that
(12)
Moreover, in view of together with being a solution of Eq. (3), we can infer from Eq. (12) that
(13)
Then it follows from Eqs. (8), (10), (11), and (13) that
Hence, we get
for all . This means that is a solution of Eq. (1).
Recall that for each , namely, for each . By Eq. (9), we can obtain
(14)
where . □
Remark 1 In Theorem 2.1, the arbitrariness of does not mean that the right-hand side of the inequality (4) may be arbitrarily changed with respect to an appropriate function h, because one can see from Eq. (7) that the desired function h depends on the choice of . Furthermore, we can conclude from Eq. (4) that for an arbitrary fixed , there exists an appropriate solution h of Eq. (1) such that h can be used to approximate the function f that satisfies the inequality (2), and the error can be estimated by the control function of the right-hand side of Eq. (4).
The following result associated with the Hyers-Ulam stability of Eq. (1) is a direct consequence of Theorem 2.1.
Corollary 2.2 Let be a finite interval, i.e., and let be a given number. Suppose that satisfies the differential inequality
for all . Moreover, assume that Eq. (3) has a solution on , where corresponds to . Then there exists such that h satisfies Eq. (1) and
(15)
for all .
Proof According to Theorem 2.1, it suffices to verify that the inequality (15) holds for all . By Eqs. (5) and (9), we have
(16)
for all . □
Remark 2 In Corollary 2.2, since is an arbitrary fixed point, the right-hand side of the equality (15) can be further improved. In fact, since is arbitrary, if we take the midpoint of the interval , i.e., putting , then we can obtain a better upper bound of the equality (15). Furthermore, the inequality (15) can be improved as