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On the absence of global solutions for some q-difference inequalities
Advances in Difference Equations volume 2019, Article number: 40 (2019)
Abstract
In this paper, we obtain sufficient conditions for the nonexistence of global solutions for some classes of q-difference inequalities. Our approach is based on the weak formulation of the problem, a particular choice of the test function, and some q-integral inequalities.
1 Introduction
In this paper, we obtain sufficient conditions for the nonexistence of global solutions for some classes of q-difference inequalities. First, we are concerned with the q-difference inequality
subject to the initial condition
where \(q\in (0,1)\), \(D_{q}\) is the q-derivative operator, \(p>0\), and \(y_{0}>0\).
Next, we study the system of q-difference inequalities
subject to the initial condition
where \(q\in (0,1)\), \(p>1\), \(m>1\), and \(y_{0}+z_{0}>0\).
In the limit case where \(q\uparrow 1\), (1) reduces to the ordinary differential inequality
It is well known that if \(p>1\) and \(y_{0}>0\), then problem (5)–(2) blows up in a finite time. Observe also that in the limit case where \(q\uparrow 1\), (3) reduces to the system of ordinary differential inequalities
Note that if \(p>1\), \(m>1\), \(y_{0}>0\), and \(z_{0}>0\), then a blow-up situation takes place for problem (6)–(4) (see, e.g., [18]).
The study of sufficient conditions for the nonexistence of global solutions to differential equations or inequalities provides important information in theory as in applications. First, sufficient conditions for the absence of solutions provide necessary conditions for the existence of solutions. Second, useful information on limiting behaviors of many physical systems can be obtained via the nonexistence criteria. Indeed, having an information on the blowing-up of solutions can help in preventing accidents and malfunction in industry. It helps also in improving the performance of machines and extending their lifespan.
There are several works in the literature concerning the nonexistence of solutions for different classes of differential equations or inequalities involving nonstandard derivatives. In particular, the study of the absence of solutions for different types of fractional differential problems has received a great attention from many researchers. In this direction, we refer the reader to [15, 16, 18,19,20,21] and the references therein. However, to the best of our knowledge, there are no investigations on the nonexistence of solutions in quantum calculus.
The q-difference calculus or quantum calculus is an old subject, which is rich in history and in applications. It was initiated by Jackson [11, 12] and developed by many researchers (see, e.g., [1, 6, 8]). We can find in the literature several papers dealing with the existence of solutions for different kinds of q-difference equations; see, for example, [3,4,5, 9, 10, 13, 17, 24] and the references therein.
In this paper, we obtain sufficient criteria for the absence of global solutions to problems (1)–(2) and (3)–(4). The proofs are based on an extension of the test function method due to Mitidieri and Pohozaev [22] to quantum calculus.
The paper is organized as follows. In Sect. 2, we recall some basic concepts on q-calculus and present some properties and lemmas that will be used in the proofs of our results. Section 3 is devoted to study the nonexistence of global solutions for problem (1)–(2). In Sect. 4, we establish a nonexistence result for problem (3)–(4).
2 Preliminaries on quantum calculus
In this section, we recall some basic concepts on quantum calculus and provide some useful properties.
We denote by \(\mathbb{N}\) the set of natural numbers and by \(\mathbb{N}^{*}\) the set \(\mathbb{N}\backslash \{0\}\). Here we follow [7, 23].
Let \(q\in (0,1)\) be fixed. For \(a\in \mathbb{R}\), we set
The q-analog of the power \((a-b)^{N}\) is
Let \(f:[0,T]\to \mathbb{R}\), \(T>0\), be a given function such that \(f'(t)\) exists in a neighborhood of \(t=0\) and is continuous at \(t=0\). The q-derivative of the function f is defined by
and
We easily see that \(D_{q}f\in C([0,T];\mathbb{R})\).
Notice that if f is differentiable, then
The q-integral of the function f is defined by
provided that the sum converges absolutely. We say that f is q-integrable on \([0,T]\) iff \(\int _{0}^{t} |f(s)| \,d_{q}s<\infty \) for all \(t\in [0,T]\). If f is such that, for some \(C> 0\) and \(\alpha > -1\), \(|f(s)| < C s^{\alpha }\) in a right neighborhood of \(s=0\), then f is q-integrable (see [7]).
We can easily see that if f is q-integrable on \([0,T]\), then
Moreover, if \(f_{1},f_{2}: [0,T]\to \mathbb{R}\) are two q-integrable functions on \([0,T]\), \(T>0\), then
By [2], if f is Riemann integrable on \([0,t]\), then
Lemma 2.1
([14])
Let \(f\in C([0,T];\mathbb{R})\), \(T>0\), be a continuous function such that \(f'(t)\) exists in a neighborhood of \(t=0\) and is continuous at \(t=0\). Then
and
Let \(u(s)=\alpha s^{\beta }\), where \(0\leq s\leq t\), \(\alpha >0\), and \(\beta >0\). Then we have the change-of-variable formula (see [14])
where \(g:[0,\alpha t^{\beta }]\to \mathbb{R}\) is a q-integrable function on \([0,\alpha t^{\beta }]\).
Lemma 2.2
(see [7])
Let \(N\in \mathbb{N}^{*}\), \(T>0\), and \(a,b,t\in \mathbb{R}\). Then
and
Next, we recall the following q-integration-by-parts rule.
Lemma 2.3
(see [14])
Let \(f_{1},f_{2}\in C([0,T];\mathbb{R})\), \(T>0\), be two given functions whose ordinary derivatives exist in a neighborhood of \(t=0\) and are continuous at \(t=0\). Then
3 The absence of global solutions for problem (1)–(2)
In this section, we establish the nonexistence of global solutions for problem (1)–(2). Our nonexistence result is stated in the following theorem.
Theorem 3.1
Let \(p>1\) and \(y_{0}>0\). Then problem (1)–(2) admits no global solutions in \(C^{1}([0,\infty );\mathbb{R})\).
Proof
We argue by contradiction. Suppose that problem (1)–(2) has a global solution \(y\in C^{1}([0,\infty );\mathbb{R})\). Let us take \(N\in \mathbb{N}^{*}\) such that
where
For an arbitrary \(T>0\), let us introduce the test function
Multiplying inequality (1) by \(\varphi _{T}(t)\), using (7), and taking the q-integral over \([0,T]\), we obtain
Using a q-integration by parts (see Lemma 2.3), we obtain
Using the initial condition (2) and the facts that \(\varphi _{T}(T)=0\) and \(\varphi _{T}(0)=1\), we get
Next, by (14) and (15) we obtain
On the other hand, we have
Using Young’s inequality, we obtain
where \(\frac{1}{p}+\frac{1}{p'}=1\). Therefore, by (16) and (17) we obtain
which yields
Further, using (13) and (9), we obtain
Hence
Next, we have
Therefore, from (19) we obtain
where \(u(s)=\frac{s}{T}\), \(0\leq s\leq T\), and g is defined by (12). Using the change-of-variable formula (8), we obtain
Recall that from (11) we have \(\int _{0}^{1} g_{N}(z) \,d_{q}z< \infty \). Further, from (18) we get
Since this inequality holds for every \(T>0\), passing to the limit as \(T\to \infty \), we obtain \(y_{0}\leq 0\), which contradicts the fact that \(y_{0}>0\). The obtained contradiction implies the nonexistence of a global solution to (1)–(2) for any \(p>1\). □
4 The absence of global solutions for problem (3)–(4)
In this section, we derive a nonexistence result for problem (3)–(4).
Theorem 4.1
Let \(p>1\), \(m>1\), and \(y_{0}+z_{0}>0\). Then problem (3)–(4) admits no global solutions in \(C^{1}([0,\infty );\mathbb{R})\times C^{1}([0,\infty );\mathbb{R})\).
Proof
As previously, we argue by contradiction. Suppose that problem (3)–(4) has a global solution \((y,z)\in C^{1}([0, \infty );\mathbb{R})\times C^{1}([0,\infty );\mathbb{R})\). Let us take \(N\in \mathbb{N}^{*}\) such that
where \(g_{N}\) is defined by (12), and
For arbitrary \(T>0\), let us consider the test function \(\varphi _{T}\) defined by (13). Multiplying the first inequality in (3) by \(\varphi _{T}(t)\), taking the q-integral over \([0,T]\), and using a q-integration by parts, we obtain
On the other hand, we have
Using Young’s inequality, we obtain
where \(\frac{1}{m}+\frac{1}{m'}=1\). Therefore, using (23) and (24), we obtain
Similarly, multiplying the second inequality in (3) by \(\varphi _{T}(t)\), we obtain
Adding (25) to (26), we obtain
which yields
where \(C_{m,p}=\min \{m',p'\}\). On the other hand, from the proof of Theorem 3.1 we have
and
Therefore, from (27) we obtain
Passing to the limit as \(T\to \infty \), we obtain a contradiction to
 □
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B. Samet extends his appreciation to Distinguished Scientist Fellowship Program (DSFP) at King Saud University (Saudi Arabia).
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Aydi, H., Jleli, M. & Samet, B. On the absence of global solutions for some q-difference inequalities. Adv Differ Equ 2019, 40 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13662-019-1985-8
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