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Existence of solutions for integral boundary value problems of singular Hadamard-type fractional differential equations on infinite interval
Advances in Difference Equations volume 2020, Article number: 274 (2020)
Abstract
We consider the existence of solutions for the following Hadamard-type fractional differential equations:
where \(2<\alpha \leq 3\), \(0<\beta _{1}\leq \alpha -2<\beta _{2}\leq \alpha -1\), \(f:J \times \mathbb{R}^{3}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) satisfies the q-Carathéodory condition, \(q,g_{1},g_{2}:J\rightarrow \mathbb{R}^{+}\) are nonnegative, where \(J=[1,+\infty )\). Nonlinear term f is dependent on the fractional derivative of lower order \(\beta _{1}\), \(\beta _{2}\), which creates additional complexity to verify the existence of solutions. The singularity occurring in our problem is associated with \({}^{H}D^{\beta _{2}}u\in C(1,+\infty )\) at the left endpoint \(t=1\) (if \(\beta _{2}<\alpha -1\)).
1 Introduction
Fractional differential equations arise from various applications including in a variety of fields of mathematical and natural science. Fractional boundary value problems can more accurately describe the nature of practical problems, they have solved a large number of applications in different kinds of fields such as viscoelasticity, biomedical engineering, mechanical, anomalous diffusion, etc. Therefore, they have become a research hot-spot. A variety of techniques, such as the method of mixed monotone operator, topological degree method, monotone iterative technique, etc., have been applied to obtain the existence of solutions for fractional boundary value problems (see [1–32]).
Apart from the common differential equation with Riemann–Liouville and Caputo fractional derivative, there are also several kinds of fractional derivatives: Hadamard, Erdelyi–Kober, Hilfer, and so on. Here we emphasize that the studies about Hadamard fractional differential equations are still at the early stage and need further investigation. More details and recent contributions to the topic can be found in [33–51] and the references therein.
In [36], the author used the fixed point index to study the existence of positive solutions for a system of nonlinear Hadamard fractional differential equations involving coupled integral boundary conditions:
where \(\beta \in (2,3]\), \(f_{1}\), \(f_{2}\) are nonnegative continuous functions on \([1,e]\times \mathbb{R}^{+}\times \mathbb{R}^{+}\).
Ardjouni in [45] employed the Schauder and Banach fixed point theorems and the method of upper and lower solutions to show the existence and uniqueness of a positive solution for nonlinear Hadamard fractional differential equations with integral boundary conditions:
where \(1<\alpha \leq 2\), \(0<\beta \leq \alpha -1\), \(g,f:[1,e]\times [0,\infty ) \rightarrow [0,\infty )\) are given continuous functions, g is nondecreasing on x, and f does not require any monotone assumption.
In [46], Pei et al. investigated the following boundary value problem of Hadamard fractional integro-differential equations on infinite domain:
where \(\gamma ,\beta _{i},\lambda _{i}\geq 0\) (\(i=1,2,\ldots, m\)) are given constants and η, \(\beta _{i}\), \(\lambda _{i}\) satisfy \(\varGamma (\alpha )>\sum^{m}_{i=1} \frac{\lambda _{i}\varGamma (\alpha )}{\varGamma (\alpha +\beta _{i})}\times (\log t)^{\alpha +\beta _{i}-1}\). The nonlinear term f is nondecreasing with respect to the second, third, and last variables. By use of the monotone iterative method, the authors obtained not only the existence of positive solutions for Hadamard fractional integro-differential equations on infinite intervals, but also the minimal and maximal positive solutions and two explicit monotone iterative sequences converging to the extremal solution.
El-Sayed and Gaafar [47] established the existence of positive solutions to the following singular nonlinear Hadamard-type fractional differential equations with infinite-point boundary conditions or integral boundary condition:
or
where \(1<\gamma <2\), \(0<\delta <1\), \(1\leq \gamma -\delta <2\), λ, \(v_{0}\), \(a_{j}\) are nonnegative constants. \(f:[1,e]\times \mathbb{R}^{+}\times \mathbb{R}^{2}\) is an \(L_{p}\) Carathéodory positive function.
In [2], Hao et al. considered a boundary value problem of fractional differential equation inclusions of Riemann–Liouville type on the infinite interval:
where \(2<\alpha \leq 3\), \(\beta >0\), \(\xi ,\eta \geq 0\), \(\varGamma (\alpha +\beta )> \xi \eta ^{\alpha +\beta -1}\), \(f\in C([0,+\infty ]\times \mathbb{R} \times \mathbb{R}\times \mathbb{R},\mathbb{R})\). Under suitable growth conditions of the nonlinear term f, by using the Schauder fixed point theorem and Banach contraction mapping principle, the authors showed the existence and uniqueness results of solutions.
Inspired by the works mentioned above, we will study the existence of solutions for the following boundary value problem for Hadamard fractional differential equations:
supplemented with Hadamard integral boundary conditions
\(2<\alpha \leq 3\), \(0<\beta _{1}\leq \alpha -2<\beta _{2}\leq \alpha -1\), \(q\in C(J,\mathbb{R}^{+})\), \(J=[1, +\infty )\), and \(0<\int ^{+\infty }_{1}q(s)\frac{ds}{s}<+\infty \), \(f:J\times \mathbb{R}^{3}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) satisfies the q-Carathéodory condition, \(g_{1},g_{2}:J\rightarrow \mathbb{R}^{+}\) are nonnegative functions. \({}^{H}D^{\alpha }\) represents a Hadamard fractional derivative of order α.
We say that f satisfies the q-Carathéodory condition on \(J\times \mathbb{R}^{3}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}\), if
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(1)
for each \((u,v,w)\in \mathbb{R}^{3}\), the mapping \(t\rightarrow f(t,u,v,w)\) is measurable on J;
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(2)
for a.e. \(t\in J\), the mapping \((u,v,w)\rightarrow f(t,(1+(\log t)^{\alpha -1})u,(1+(\log t)^{ \alpha -\beta _{1}-1})v, (1+(\log t)^{\alpha -\beta _{2}}) \frac{w}{(\log t)^{2+\beta _{2}-\alpha }})\) is continuous on \(\mathbb{R}^{3}\);
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(3)
for each \(r>0\), there exists a nonnegative function \(f_{r}\) satisfying \(\int ^{\infty }_{1}q(s)f_{r}(s)\frac{ds}{s}<+\infty \) such that, for any \(u,v,w\in \mathbb{R}\) with \(\max \{u,v,w\}\leq r\),
$$ \biggl\vert f \biggl(t,\bigl(1+(\log t)^{\alpha -1}\bigr)u,\bigl(1+(\log t)^{ \alpha -\beta _{1}-1}\bigr)v, \frac{1+(\log t)^{\alpha -\beta _{2}}}{(\log t)^{2+\beta _{2}-\alpha }}w \biggr) \biggr\vert \leq f_{r}(t), \quad \mbox{for a.e. }t\in J. $$
Compared with [2], in this paper, the nonlinear term f contains lower Hadamard fractional derivatives \({}^{H}D^{\beta _{1}}\), \({}^{H}D^{\beta _{2}}\), which are not only the particular case \({}^{H}D^{\alpha -1}\), \({}^{H}D^{\alpha -2}\). Furthermore, when \(\beta _{2}<\alpha -1\), \(\lim_{t\rightarrow 1+}({}^{H}D^{\beta _{2}}u)(t)=\infty \), the singularity creates additional complexity to verify the existence of solutions.
This paper is organized as follows. Section 2 contains some important lemmas, which play a key role in the study, and presents some properties of Green’s functions that are used to define an operator. In Sect. 3, the existence of solution for (1.1), (1.2) is established by using the fixed point theory in cones. In Sect. 4, the main results are illustrated by an example.
2 Some preliminaries and lemmas
Let \(\mathrm{AC}^{n}_{\delta }(J,\mathbb{R})=\{y:J\rightarrow \mathbb{R},\delta ^{n-1}y \in \mathrm{AC}(J,\mathbb{R})\}\), where \(\delta =t\frac{d}{dt}\) and \(\mathrm{AC}(J,\mathbb{R})\) is the space of absolutely continuous functions from J into \(\mathbb{R}\).
Definition 2.1
([1])
The Hadamard fractional integral of order \(\alpha >0\) for a function \(g\in L^{1}(J,\mathbb{R})\) is defined as
where \(\log (\cdot )=\log _{e}(\cdot )\).
Definition 2.2
([1])
The Hadamard derivative of fractional order \(\alpha >0\) for a function \(g\in \mathrm{AC}^{n}_{\delta }(J,\mathbb{R})\) is defined as
where \(n-1<\alpha <n\), \(n=[\alpha ]+1\), \([\alpha ]\) denotes the integer part of the real number α.
Lemma 2.1
([1])
If\(\beta -1>\gamma >0\), then
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(1)
\({}^{H}I^{\gamma }\log (t)^{\beta -1}= \frac{\varGamma (\beta )}{\varGamma (\beta +\gamma )}(\log t)^{\beta + \gamma -1}\),
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(2)
\({}^{H}D^{\gamma }\log (t)^{\beta -1}= \frac{\varGamma (\beta )}{\varGamma (\beta -\gamma )}(\log t)^{\beta - \gamma -1}\).
Lemma 2.2
([1])
For\(\alpha >0\), \(n=[\alpha ]+1\)and\(x\in C(J)\cap L^{1}(J)\), the solution of Hadamard fractional differential equation\({}^{H}D^{\alpha }x(t)=0\)is\(x(t)=\sum^{n}_{i=1}c_{i}(\log t)^{\alpha -i}\), where\(c_{i}\in \mathbb{R}\) (\(i=1,2,\ldots,n\)).
Lemma 2.3
([1])
Let\(\alpha >0\). If\(u\in L^{1}(J)\), then the equality\({}^{H}D^{\alpha } ({}^{H}I^{\alpha }u)(t)=u(t)\)holds a.e. on J.
Lemma 2.4
([1])
If\(u\in C(J)\)and\({}^{H}D^{\alpha }u \in L^{1}(J)\), then
where\(c_{i}\in \mathbb{R}\) (\(i=1,2,3\ldots, n\)), \(n=[\alpha ]+1\).
For further analysis, we introduce the following denotations:
We will use the following conditions:
- \((\mathbf{H}_{1})\):
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\(q\in C(J,\mathbb{R}^{+})\), \(f:J\times \mathbb{R}^{3}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) satisfies q-Carathéodory condition;
- \((\mathbf{H}_{2})\):
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\(g_{1},g_{2}\in L^{1}(J,\mathbb{R}^{+})\), \(l_{1},\delta _{2}<+\infty \), and \((1-\delta _{1})(1-\delta _{2})-l_{1}l_{2}>0\).
Lemma 2.5
Let\(h\in C(J)\cap L^{1}(J)\)with\(0<\int ^{\infty }_{1}h(s)\frac{ds}{s}<\infty \), then the solution of Hadamard type fractional differential equation
subject to the same condition (1.2) can be expressed by
where\(K_{\alpha }(t,s)\)is denotation (2.3) with\(\lambda =\alpha \).
Proof
Due to Lemma 2.4, the solution of Hadamard fractional differential equation \({}^{H}D^{\alpha }u(t)+h(t)=0\) can be written as
where \(c_{i}\in \mathbb{R}\) (\(i=1,2,3\)) are arbitrary constants. From \(u(1)=0\), we have \(c_{3}=0\). By Lemma 2.1, we have
Using the condition \({}^{H}D^{\alpha -2}u(1)=\int ^{+\infty }_{1}g_{1}(s)u(s)\frac{ds}{s}\), we conclude that \(c_{2}=\frac{1}{\varGamma (\alpha -1)}\int ^{+\infty }_{1}g_{1}(t) u(t) \frac{dt}{t}\).
Similarly, we get
From the condition \({}^{H}D^{\alpha -1}u(+\infty )=\int ^{+\infty }_{1}g_{2}(s)u(s) \frac{ds}{s}\), we conclude that
Consequently,
Multiplying both sides of (2.6) by \(\frac{g_{1}(t)}{t}\) and integrating from 1 to +∞, we get
Similarly,
For convenience, we denote
From (2.7), (2.8) we can deduce
Thus,
Substituting \(X_{1}\), \(X_{2}\) into (2.6), we can conclude
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Lemma 2.6
The functions\(G_{\lambda }\), \(\varphi _{\lambda }\), \(T_{1,\lambda }\), \(T_{2,\lambda }\)defined in (2.1), (2.2) satisfy
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(1)
\(G_{\lambda }\)is continuous in\(J\times J\)and\(0\leq G_{\lambda }(t,s)\leq \frac{1}{\varGamma (\lambda )}(\log t)^{ \lambda -1}\), \(\forall t,s\in J\times J\), \(\lambda \geq 1\);
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(2)
\(\frac{G_{\lambda }(t,s)}{1+(\log t)^{\lambda -1}}\leq \frac{1}{\varGamma (\lambda )}\), \(\forall t,s\in J\times J\), \(\lambda \geq 1\);
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(3)
If\(\lambda \geq 2\), for any\(t\in J\), \(\frac{\varphi _{\lambda }(t)}{1+(\log t)^{\lambda -1}}\leq \frac{1}{\varGamma (\lambda )}\), \(\frac{\varphi _{\lambda -1}(t)}{1+(\log t)^{\lambda -1}}\leq \frac{1}{\varGamma (\lambda -1)}\);
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(4)
If\(1<\lambda <2\), for any\(t,s\in J\),
$$ \begin{gathered} \frac{(\log t)^{2-\lambda }}{1+(\log t)^{\lambda }}G_{ \lambda }(t,s)\leq \frac{1}{\varGamma (\lambda )},\qquad \frac{(\log t)^{2-\lambda }}{1+(\log t)^{\lambda }} \varphi _{\lambda }(t)\leq \frac{1}{\varGamma (\lambda )},\\ \frac{(\log t)^{2-\lambda }}{1+(\log t)^{\lambda }}\varphi _{\lambda -1}(t)\leq \frac{1}{\varGamma (\lambda -1)}; \end{gathered} $$ -
(5)
For any\(t\in J\), \(\lambda \geq 2\),
$$ \frac{T_{1,\lambda }(t)}{1+(\log t)^{\lambda -1}}\leq \frac{\delta l_{2}}{\varGamma (\lambda )}+ \frac{\delta (1-\delta _{2})}{\varGamma (\lambda -1)},\qquad \frac{T_{2,\lambda }(t)}{1+(\log t)^{\lambda -1}}\leq \frac{\delta (1-\delta _{1})}{\varGamma (\lambda )}+ \frac{\delta l_{1}}{\varGamma (\lambda -1)}. $$
Proof
By the definition, conclusions (1) and (2) can be easily obtained.
\((3)\) If \(\lambda \geq 2\), for \(\forall t\in J\), \(\frac{\varphi _{\lambda }(t)}{1+(\log t)^{\lambda -1}}= \frac{(\log t)^{\lambda -1}}{1+(\log t)^{\lambda -1}}\frac{1}{\varGamma (\lambda )}\leq \frac{1}{\varGamma (\lambda )}\),
\((4)\) If \(1<\lambda <2\), for any \(t,s\in J\), \(\frac{(\log t)^{2-\lambda }}{1+(\log t)^{\lambda }}G_{\lambda }(t,s)\leq \frac{\log t}{1+(\log t)^{\lambda }}\frac{1}{\varGamma (\lambda )}\leq \frac{1}{\varGamma (\lambda )}\),
On the basis of (3), conclusion (5) can be easily deduced. □
Remark 1
From Lemma 2.1 and \(0<\beta _{1}\leq \alpha -2<\beta _{2}\leq \alpha -1\), we can calculate
Define the function spaces
with the form \(\|u\|_{X}=\sup_{t\in J} \frac{|u(t)|}{1+(\log t)^{\alpha -1}}\) and
with the norm
By a standard method, we can show that \((Y,\|\cdot \|_{Y})\) is a Banach space.
According to the same method in [46, 49], we can get the following lemma.
Lemma 2.7
Let\(U\subset Y\)be a bounded set, thenUis relatively compact inYif the following conditions hold:
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(1)
For any\(u\in U\), \(\frac{u(t)}{1+(\log t)^{\alpha -1}}\), \(\frac{{}^{H}D^{\beta _{1}}u(t)}{1+(\log t)^{\alpha -\beta _{1}-1}}\), and\(\frac{(\log t)^{2+\beta _{2}-\alpha }}{1+(\log t)^{\alpha -\beta _{2}}}({}^{H}D^{\beta _{2}}u)(t)\)are equicontinuous on any compact interval ofJ;
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(2)
For any\(\varepsilon >0\), there exists a constant\(L=L(\varepsilon )>0\)such that
$$ \biggl\vert \frac{u(t_{1})}{1+(\log t_{1})^{\alpha -1}}-\frac{u(t_{2})}{1+(\log t_{2})^{\alpha -1}} \biggr\vert < \varepsilon , \qquad \biggl\vert \frac{{}^{H}D^{\beta _{1}}u(t_{1})}{1+(\log t_{1})^{\alpha -\beta _{1}-1}}- \frac{{}^{H}D^{\beta _{1}}u(t_{2})}{1+(\log t_{2})^{\alpha -\beta _{1}-1}} \biggr\vert < \varepsilon , $$and
$$ \biggl\vert \frac{(\log t_{1})^{2+\beta _{2}-\alpha }}{1+(\log t_{1})^{\alpha -\beta _{2}}}\bigl({}^{H}D^{\beta _{2}}u\bigr) (t_{1})- \frac{(\log t_{2})^{2+\beta _{2}-\alpha }}{1+(\log t_{2})^{\alpha -\beta _{2}}}\bigl({}^{H}D^{\beta _{2}}u \bigr) (t_{2}) \biggr\vert < \varepsilon , $$for any\(t_{1},t_{2}\geq L\)and\(u\in U\).
Lemma 2.8
(Schauder’s fixed point theorem)
LetCbe a compact, closed, bounded, and convex subset of a Banach spaceX. Suppose that\(T:C\rightarrow C\)is a continuous and compact mapping. ThenThas at least one fixed point inC.
3 Main results
In this section, we shall establish the existence result of at least one solution of (1.1), (1.2). For convenience, we denote \(F_{u}(s)=f (s,u(s),{}^{H}D^{\beta _{1}}u(s),{}^{H}D^{\beta _{2}}u(s) )\).
We define an operator \(A :Y \to C(J,\mathbb{R})\) as follows:
By Lemma 2.5, we can show that \(u(t)\) is a solution of boundary value problem (1.1), (1.2) if and only if it is the fixed point of A.
From Lemma 2.1 and Remark 1, we have
Similarly, if \(\beta _{2}<\alpha -1\),
if \(\beta _{2}=\alpha -1\),
where \(K^{\beta _{2}}(t,s)=G(t,s)+\delta l_{2}\int ^{\infty }_{1}g_{1}(t)G_{ \alpha }(t,s)\frac{dt}{t}+\delta (1-\delta _{1})\int ^{\infty }_{1}g_{2}(t)G_{ \alpha }(t,s)\frac{dt}{t}\),
Remark 2
In (2.3) we choose \(\lambda =\alpha \), \(\lambda =\alpha -\beta _{1}\) respectively, from Lemma 2.6, we can easily get the following inequalities:
when \(1<\alpha -\beta _{2}<2\), for all \(t,s\in J\), according to Lemma 2.6(2), (4), let \(\lambda =\alpha -\beta _{2}\),
when \(\alpha -\beta _{2}=1\), we have the following inequality:
Lemma 3.1
The operator\(A:Y\rightarrow Y\)is well defined.
Proof
For any \(u\in Y\), \(u\neq \theta \), let \(\|u\|_{Y}=r>0\). In view of the definition of Y,
From the continuity of \(K_{\alpha }\), q, \(F_{u}\), we know \(Au(t)\), \({}^{H}D^{\beta _{1}}Au(t)\), and \({}^{H}D^{\beta _{2}}Au(t)\) are continuous.
Using (3.5)–(3.8) and the Caratheodory condition, we can deduce
and
From the definition of space Y, we know \(Au\in Y\), which means operator A is well defined. □
Theorem 3.1
Assume that conditions\((\mathbf{H}_{1})\)–\((\mathbf{H}_{2})\)are satisfied. Further assume that the following condition\((\mathbf{H}_{3})\)holds:
- (\(\mathbf{H}_{3}\)):
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There exists a constant\(R>0\)such that\(f_{R}(t)\)satisfies
$$ \Delta \int ^{+\infty }_{1}q(s)f_{R}(s) \frac{ds}{s}\leq R, $$where\(\Delta =\max \{\Delta _{1},\Delta _{2},\Delta _{3},\Delta _{4}\}\). Then boundary value problem (1.1), (1.2) has at least one solution.
Proof
The proof is divided into the following steps:
Step 1. We will prove that \(A:Y\rightarrow Y\) is completely continuous.
Firstly we will show that A is a continuous operator. Let \(u_{n},u\in Y\) (\(n=1,2,\ldots\)) with \(\|u_{n}-u\|_{Y}\rightarrow 0\), \(n\rightarrow \infty \). For any \(t\in J\), we have
Meanwhile, there exists a constant \(r>0\) such that \(\|u_{n}\|_{Y}\leq r\), \(\|u\|_{Y}\leq r\), which means
Due to the Caratheodory condition, for a.e. \(s\in J\), we have
By the Lebesgue dominated convergence theorem, we obtain
Following the above method, we can also deduce
and
Thus, we conclude \(\|Au_{n}-Au\|_{Y}\rightarrow 0\), (\(n\rightarrow +\infty \)), which means that \(A : Y\to Y\) is a continuous operator.
Next, we will show that A is a compact operator. Let B be a nonempty bounded subset of Y. There exists a positive number \(r_{1}\) such that \(\|u\|_{Y}\leq r_{1}\), \(\forall u\in B\), and there exists \(f_{r_{1}}\in L^{1}(J)\) such that \(|F_{u}(s)|\leq f_{r_{1}}(s)\).
For any \(u\in B\), we can get
and
Therefore \(\|Au\|_{Y}\leq \Delta \int ^{+\infty }_{1}q(s)f_{r_{1}}(s) \frac{ds}{s}< +\infty \) and \(A(B)\) is bounded in Y.
For any \(b>1\), let \(J_{1}\triangleq [1,b]\). Because \(\frac{G_{\alpha }(t,s)}{1+(\log t)^{\alpha -1}}\) is continuous on \(J_{1}\times J_{1}\) and \(\frac{(\log t)^{\alpha -1}}{1+(\log t)^{\alpha -1}}\), \(\frac{T_{1,\alpha }(t)}{1+(\log t)^{\alpha -1}}\), \(\frac{T_{2,\alpha }(t)}{1+(\log t)^{\alpha -1}}\) are continuous on \(J_{1}\), then they are uniformly continuous. So, for any \(\varepsilon >0\), there is a constant \(\delta _{1}>0\) such that, for all \(t_{1},t_{2},s_{1},s_{2}\in J_{1}\), with \(|t_{1}-t_{2}|<\delta _{1}\), \(|s_{1}-s_{2}|<\delta _{1}\),
For \(\forall u\in B\), \(t_{1},t_{2}\in J_{1}\), with \(t_{1}< t_{2}\), \(|t_{1}-t_{2}|<\delta _{1}\),
Similarly, \(\frac{G_{\alpha -\beta _{1}}(t,s)}{1+(\log t)^{\alpha -\beta _{1}-1}}\) is continuous on \(J_{1}\times J_{1}\), and \(\frac{(\log t)^{\alpha -\beta _{1}-1}}{1+(\log t)^{\alpha -\beta _{1}-1}}\), \(\frac{T_{1,\alpha -\beta _{1}}(t)}{1+(\log t)^{\alpha -\beta _{1}-1}}\), \(\frac{T_{2,\alpha -\beta _{1}}(t)}{1+(\log t)^{\alpha -\beta _{1}-1}}\) are continuous on \(J_{1}\). For above \(\varepsilon >0\), there is a constant \(\delta _{2}>0\) such that, for all \(t_{1},t_{2}\in J_{1} \) with \(t_{1}< t_{2}\), \(|t_{1}-t_{2}|<\delta _{2}\),
When \(\beta _{2}<\alpha -1\), \(\frac{(\log t)^{2+\beta _{2}-\alpha }}{1+(\log t)^{\alpha -\beta _{2}}}G_{\alpha -\beta _{2}}(t,s)\) is continuous on \(J_{1}\times J_{1}\), and \(\frac{\log t}{1+(\log t)^{\alpha -\beta _{2}}}\), \(\frac{(\log t)^{2+\beta _{2}-\alpha }}{1+(\log t)^{\alpha -\beta _{2}}}T_{1,\alpha -\beta _{2}}(t)\), \(\frac{(\log t)^{2+\beta _{2}-\alpha }}{1+(\log t)^{\alpha -\beta _{2}}}T_{2,\alpha -\beta _{2}}(t)\) are continuous on \(J_{1}\). For above \(\varepsilon >0\), there is a constant \(\delta _{3}>0\) such that, for all \(t_{1},t_{2}\in J_{1} \) with \(t_{1}< t_{2}\), \(|t_{1}-t_{2}|<\delta _{3}\),
When \(\beta _{2}=\alpha -1\), \(\frac{\log t}{1+\log t}G(t,s)\) is continuous on \(J_{1}\times J_{1}\) and \(\frac{\log t}{1+\log t}\) is continuous on \(J_{1}\), there exists \(\delta _{4}>0\) such that, for all \(t_{1},t_{2}\in J_{1} \) with \(t_{1}< t_{2}\), \(|t_{1}-t_{2}|<\delta _{4}\),
Hence, \(\frac{Au(t)}{1+(\log t)^{\alpha -1}}\), \(\frac{{}^{H}D^{\beta _{1}}Au(t)}{1+(\log t)^{\alpha -\beta _{1}-1}}\), \(\frac{(\log t)^{2+\beta _{2}-\alpha }}{1+(\log t)^{\alpha -\beta _{2}}}({}^{H}D^{\beta _{2}}Au)(t)\) are equicontinuous on \(J_{1}\).
Now we indicate that the second condition \((2)\) of Lemma 2.7 holds. Since
for any \(\varepsilon >0\), there exists a constant \(T_{1}>1\) such that \(\forall t_{1},t_{2}>T_{1}\),
On the other hand, for \(\forall u\in B\), we have
Hence, for given \(\varepsilon >0\), there exists a constant \(L>0\) such that \(\int ^{+\infty }_{L}q(s)f_{r_{1}}(s)\frac{ds}{s}<\varepsilon \). Similarly, due to
there exists a constant \(T_{2}>L\) such that, for any \(t_{1},t_{2}>T_{2}\), \(1\leq s\leq L\), we have
Let \(\forall t_{1},t_{2}>\max \{T_{1},T_{2}\}\), by Lemma 2.6,
Similarly,
there exists a constant \(T_{3}>1\) such that \(\forall t_{1},t_{2}>T_{3}\),
From \(\lim_{t\rightarrow +\infty } \frac{G_{\alpha -\beta _{1}}(t,s)}{1+(\log t)^{\alpha -\beta _{1}-1}}=0\), \(1\leq s\leq L\), there exists a constant \(T_{4}>L\) such that, for any \(t_{1},t_{2}>T_{4}\), \(1\leq s\leq L\), we have \(\vert \frac{G_{\alpha -\beta _{1}}(t_{1},s)}{1+(\log t_{1})^{\alpha -\beta _{1}-1}}- \frac{G_{\alpha -\beta _{1}}(t_{2},s)}{1+(\log t_{2})^{\alpha -\beta _{1}-1}} \vert <\varepsilon \). Let \(\forall t_{1},t_{2}>\max \{T_{3},T_{4}\}\),
When \(\beta _{2}<\alpha -1\),
there exists a constant \(T_{5}>1\) such that \(\forall t_{1},t_{2}>T_{5}\),
From \(\lim_{t\rightarrow +\infty } \frac{(\log t)^{2+\beta _{2}-\alpha }}{1+(\log t)^{\alpha -\beta _{2}}}G_{\alpha -\beta _{2}}(t,s)=0\), \(1\leq s\leq L\), there exists a constant \(T_{6}>L\) such that, for any \(t_{1},t_{2}>T_{6}\), \(1\leq s\leq L\), we have
Let \(\forall t_{1},t_{2}>\max \{T_{5},T_{6}\}\),
When \(\beta _{2}=\alpha -1\), \(\lim_{t\rightarrow +\infty } \frac{\log t}{1+\log t}=1\), there exists a constant \(T_{7}>1\) such that \(\forall t_{1},t_{2}>T_{7}\),
\(\lim_{t\rightarrow +\infty } \frac{\log t}{1+\log t}G(t,s)=0\), \(1\leq s\leq L\), there exists a constant \(T_{8}>L\) such that, for any \(t_{1},t_{2}>T_{8}\), \(1\leq s\leq L\), we have
Let \(\forall t_{1},t_{2}>\max \{T_{7},T_{8}\}\),
Combining and
, from Lemma 2.7, we have \(A(B)\) is relatively compact. Therefore we conclude that A is a compact operator. Hence, A is completely continuous in Y.
Step 2. \(A(\varOmega _{R})\subset \varOmega _{R}\), where \(\varOmega _{R}=\{u\in Y:\|u\|\leq R\}\).
For any \(u\in \varOmega _{R}\), we know that
From condition \((H_{3})\) and (3.5)–(3.8), we have
which means that \(\|Au\|_{Y}\leq R\), \(A (\varOmega _{R})\subset \varOmega _{R}\) holds.
Step 3. We will show that A has at least one solution in Y.
By step 1 and step 2, we have \(A:\varOmega _{R}\rightarrow \varOmega _{R}\) is completely continuous. \(\varOmega _{R}\) is a nonempty, closed, bounded, and convex subset of Y. According to the Schauder fixed point theorem, we conclude that A has at least one fixed point in \(\varOmega _{R}\), then boundary value problem (1.1), (1.2) has at least one solution. □
Let \(J_{0}=(1,+\infty )\), \(L(s)=\max \{ 1+(\log s)^{\alpha -1},1+( \log s)^{\alpha -\beta _{1}-1}, \frac{1+(\log s)^{\alpha -\beta _{2}}}{(\log s)^{2+\beta _{2}-\alpha }} \} \), \(s\in J_{0}\).
Corollary 3.1
Assume that conditions\((\mathbf{H}_{2})\)–\((\mathbf{H}_{3})\)are satisfied. Further assume that the following condition\((\mathbf{H}_{4})\)holds:
- (\(\mathbf{H}_{4}\)):
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\(f(t,u,v,w)\)is continuous on\(J\times \mathbb{R}^{3}\), and there exist nonnegative functions\(a,b,c,d\in Y_{1}\)such that, for all\((u,v,w)\in \mathbb{R}^{3}\)and\(t\in J\),
$$ \bigl\vert f(t,u,v,w) \bigr\vert \leq a(t)+b(t) \vert u \vert +c(t) \vert v \vert +d(t) \vert w \vert . $$Then boundary value problem (1.1) and (1.2) has at least one solution.
Proof
Let \(\varOmega _{R}=\{u\in Y:\|u\|_{Y}\leq R\}\). For any \(u\in \varOmega _{R}\), \(s\in J\), we have
Obviously,
hence \(\int ^{+\infty }_{1}q(s)f_{R}(s)\frac{ds}{s}<+\infty \).
By Theorem 3.1, we get that problem (1.1), (1.2) has at least one solution. □
4 Example
Example 4.1
Consider the Hadamard-type fractional boundary value problem on unbounded domain:
Let \(\alpha =\frac{5}{2}\), \(\beta _{1}=\frac{1}{4}\), \(\beta _{2}=\frac{5}{4}\), \(q(t)=e^{-t}\), \(g_{1}(t)=g_{2}(t)= \frac{1}{t^{3}(\log t)^{\frac{1}{2}}}\), \(f_{r}(t)=t^{2}r^{3}\),
Hence
\(\int ^{+\infty }_{1}f_{r}(t)q(t)\frac{dt}{t}=r^{3}\int ^{+\infty }_{1}t^{2}e^{-t}\,dt=5e^{-1}r^{3}\).
and \(\frac{1}{\delta }=(1-\delta _{1})(1-\delta _{2})-l_{1}l_{2}\approx 0.5403>0\).
Therefore, conditions \((H_{1})(H_{2})\) hold. Choose \(\Delta =\max \{\Delta _{1},\Delta _{2},\Delta _{3},\Delta _{4}\}= \Delta _{3}\), \(R\leq \sqrt{\frac{e}{5\Delta }}\), then \(\Delta \int ^{+\infty }_{1}f_{R}(t)e^{-t}\frac{dt}{t}=5\Delta e^{-1}R^{3} \leq R\), so condition \((H_{3})\) holds. By Theorem 3.1, BVP (4.1) has at least one solution.
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Liu, W., Liu, L. & Wu, Y. Existence of solutions for integral boundary value problems of singular Hadamard-type fractional differential equations on infinite interval. Adv Differ Equ 2020, 274 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13662-020-02726-6
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- 34B18
- 34B10
- 34B15
Keywords
- Hadamard-type fractional differential equation
- Carathéodory condition
- Infinite interval
- Fixed point theory