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Existence of positive solutions for discrete delta-nabla fractional boundary value problems with p-Laplacian
Boundary Value Problems volume 2017, Article number: 60 (2017)
Abstract
In this paper, we consider a discrete delta-nabla boundary value problem for the fractional difference equation with p-Laplacian
where \(t\in\mathbb{T}=[\nu-\beta-1,b+\nu-\beta-1]_{\mathbb{N}_{\nu-\beta-1}}\). \({\triangle_{\nu-2}^{\beta}}\), \({_{b}\nabla^{\nu}}\) are left and right fractional difference operators, respectively, and \(\varphi_{p}(s)=|s|^{p-2}s\), \(p>1\).
By using the method of upper and lower solution and the Schauder fixed point theorem, we obtain the existence of positive solutions for the above boundary value problem; and applying a monotone iterative technique, we establish iterative schemes for approximating the solution.
1 Introduction
In this paper, we investigate the existence of positive solutions for the following discrete delta-nabla fractional boundary value problem (FBVP) with p-Laplacian:
where \(t\in\mathbb{T}=[\nu-\beta-1,b+\nu-\beta-1]_{\mathbb{N}_{\nu-\beta -1}}\), \({\triangle_{\nu-2}^{\beta}}\), \({_{b}\nabla^{\nu}}\) are left and right fractional difference operators, respectively. \(\varphi_{p}(s)=\vert s\vert ^{p-2}s\), \(p>1\), \(\varphi _{p}^{-1}=\varphi_{q}\), \(\frac{1}{p}+\frac{1}{q}=1\), \({\beta,\nu,\varepsilon }\in(0,+\infty)\), and they satisfy the following:
- \((H_{1})\) :
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\(\nu\in(1,2]\), \({\beta,\varepsilon}\in(0,1]\), \(\nu-\varepsilon -1>0\);
- \((H_{2})\) :
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\(A(t)\) is a function defined on \([0,b]_{\mathbb{N}_{0}}\);
- \((H_{3})\) :
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\(f:[0,b]_{\mathbb{N}_{0}}\times{\mathbb{R}}\times{\mathbb {R}}\longrightarrow[0,\infty)\) is continuous for any \(t\in[0,b]_{\mathbb {N}_{0}}\), \(f(t,0,0)\neq0\), \(f(t,1,1)\neq0\), and let
$$ \sigma=\max_{t\in[0,b]_{\mathbb{N}_{0}}}f(t,1,1)\neq0. $$(1.3)
The equation with p-Laplacian operator arises in the modeling of different physical and natural phenomena, non-Newtonian mechanics [1], combustion theory [2], population biology [3], nonlinear flow laws [4] and the system of Monge-Kantorovich mass transfer [5]. Integral and derivative operators of fractional order can describe the characteristics exhibited in many complex processes and systems having long-memory in time. Then many classical integer order models for complex systems are substituted by fractional order models. Fractional calculus has recently developed into a relatively vibrant research area. It also provides an excellent tool to describe the hereditary properties of materials and processes. Many successful new applications of fractional calculus in various fields have also been reported recently. For example, Nieto and Pimentel [6] extended a second-order thermostat model to the fractional model; Ding and Jiang [7] used waveform relaxation methods to study some fractional functional differential equation models. For the basic theories of fractional calculus and some recent work in application, the reader is referred to Refs. [8–13].
On the other hand, discrete fractional calculus has attracted slowly but steadily increasing attention in the past seven years or so. In particular, several recent papers by Atici and Eloe as well as other recent papers by the present authors have addressed some basic theory of both discrete fractional initial value problems and discrete FBVPs. More specifically, Atici and Eloe [14] have already analyzed a transform method in discrete fractional calculus. Goodrich [15] considered a discrete right-focal fractional boundary value problem. All of the fundamental background in discrete fractional calculus can be found in [16] which is written by Goodrich and Peterson. Other recent work has considered discrete FBVPs with a variety of boundary conditions, see [17–20]. There are also a few papers for the discrete delta-nabla boundary value problems. For example, Malinowska and Torres [21] propose a more general approach to the calculus of variations on time scales that allows to obtain both delta and nabla results as particular cases. Martins and Torres [22] study the calculus of variations on time scales with nabla derivatives and so on. What is more, [23] is the first paper to consider a discrete fractional difference equation with a p-Laplacian operator.
From the above works, we can see the fact that although the discrete delta-nabla boundary value problem has been studied by many authors, to the best of our knowledge, there are very few papers on the discrete delta-nabla FBVPs. For example, Xie, Jin and Hou [24] obtained some results which ensure the existence of a well precise interval of the parameter for which the problem admits multiple solutions.
Our aim is to use the method of upper and lower solution and the Schauder fixed point theorem to obtain the existence of positive solutions for the above boundary value problem; and to apply a monotone iterative technique to establish iterative schemes for approximating the solution.
The rest of this paper has the following structure. In Section 2, we recall some basic definitions of fractional calculus, establish some lemmas and use symbols to replace with some formula which plays a pivotal role in the text. Section 3 contains an existence result for problem (1.1) and (1.2) which is established by applying the method of upper and lower solution and the Schauder fixed point theorem. In Section 4, we show the iterative schemes for approximating the solution by using a monotone iterative technique.
2 Preliminaries
In this section, we collect some basic definitions and lemmas for manipulating discrete fractional operators.
For any real number β, let \(\mathbb{N}_{\beta}=\{\beta,\beta +1,\beta+2,\ldots\}\), \(_{\beta}\mathbb{N}=\{\ldots,\beta-2,\beta-1,\beta \}\).
We define \(t^{\underline{\nu}}=\frac{\Gamma(t+1)}{\Gamma(t+1-\nu)}\) for any \(t, \nu\in\mathbb{R}\), for which the right-hand side is well defined. We also appeal to the convention that if \(t+1-\nu\) is a pole of the gamma function and \(t+1\) is not a pole, then \(t^{\underline{\nu}}=0\).
Definition 2.1
[17]
Let \(f: \mathbb{N}_{a}\rightarrow\mathbb {R}\) and \(\nu>0\) be given. The νth left fractional sum of f is given by
Also, let \(N\in\mathbb{N}\) be chosen such that \(N-1<\nu\leq{N}\). Then the νth left fractional difference of f is given by
Definition 2.2
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The νth right fractional sum of \(f(t)\) for \(\nu>0\) is defined by
We also define the νth right fractional difference for \(\nu>0\) by
where \(N\in\mathbb{N}\) is chosen so that \(0\leq{N-1}<\nu\leq{N}\).
Lemma 2.1
[18]
Let \(b\in\mathbb{R}\) and \(\mu>0\) be given. Then
for any t, for which both sides are well defined.
Furthermore, for \(\nu>0\) with \({N-1}<\nu\leq{N}\), \(N\in\mathbb{N}\),
and
Lemma 2.2
[17]
Let \(f:\mathbb{N}_{a}\rightarrow{\mathbb{R}}\) be given, and suppose \(\nu,\mu>0\) with \({N-1}<\nu\leq{N}\).
Then
Lemma 2.3
[18]
Let f: \(_{b}\mathbb{N}\rightarrow{\mathbb {R}}\) be given, and suppose \(\nu,\mu>0\) with \({N-1}<\nu\leq{N}\).
Then
Lemma 2.4
[17]
Let f: \(\mathbb{N}_{a}\rightarrow{\mathbb{R}}\) and \(\nu>0\) be given with \({N-1}<\nu\leq{N}\). The following two definitions for the left fractional difference \(\Delta_{a}^{\nu}f:{\mathbb{N}_{a+N-\nu}}\rightarrow{\mathbb{R}}\) are equivalent:
Lemma 2.5
[18]
Let f: \(_{b}\mathbb{N}\rightarrow{\mathbb{R}}\) and \(\nu>0\) be given with \({N-1}<\nu\leq{N}\). The following two definitions for the right fractional difference \(_{b}\nabla^{\nu}f:{_{b-N+\nu}\mathbb{N}}\rightarrow{\mathbb{R}}\) are equivalent:
Lemma 2.6
[17]
Let \(f:\mathbb{N}_{a}\rightarrow{\mathbb{R}}\) be given and suppose \(k\in{\mathbb{N}_{0}}\) and \(\nu>0\). Then for \(t\in{\mathbb{N}_{a+M-\mu+\nu}}\),
Moreover, if \(\mu>0\) with \(M-1<\mu\leq{M}\), then for \(t\in{\mathbb {N}_{a+\nu}}\),
Lemma 2.7
[18]
Let f: \(_{b}\mathbb{N}\rightarrow{\mathbb{R}}\) be given, and suppose \(k\in{\mathbb{N}_{0}}\) and \(\nu>0\). Then for \(t\in{_{b-\nu}\mathbb{N}}\),
Moreover, if \(\mu>0\) with \(M-1<\mu\leq{M}\), then for \(t\in{_{b-M+\mu-\nu }\mathbb{N}}\),
Remark 2.1
When we choose \(t\in\mathbb{T}=[\nu-\beta-1,b+\nu-\beta-1]_{\mathbb{N}_{\nu-\beta-1}}\) in (1.1), problem (1.1) (1.2) is significative. In fact, by Definitions 2.1, 2.2, Lemmas 2.4 and 2.5, we have
and
We can see that the domain of the function x is \(\{-2,-1,0,\ldots,b\}\).
In the following paragraphs, we define \(\sum_{t=i}^{j}{y(t)}=0\) for \(j< i\).
Next, we denote
For variable t, we denote
By Lemmas 2.1 and 2.5, for \(\nu-1\leq{s}\leq{b+\nu-1}\), we have
Thus
We denote
Lemma 2.8
Let \(0\leq{C}<1\) and \({h}:{[0,b]_{\mathbb{N}_{0}}}\rightarrow{\mathbb{R}}\) be given, the problem
has the unique solution
where \(J(t,s)\) is given by (2.2).
Proof
Denote
By Lemma 2.7, we have
From (2.5), we have \(k_{2}=0\) and
Then
The proof is complete. □
Lemma 2.9
Let \(0\leq{C}<1\) and \({h}:{[0,b]_{\mathbb{N}_{0}}}\rightarrow{\mathbb{R}}\). Problem (2.5) is equivalent to the following problem:
Proof
Suppose that \(x(t)\) is a solution of (2.5). Let
Then by Lemma 2.7 and \(x(b)=0\), we have \(x(t)=_{b+\varepsilon-1}\nabla^{-\varepsilon}y(t)\).
By Lemma 2.3, we get
Therefore
and
Same if vice versa. □
Using Lemmas 2.8 and 2.9, we may easily obtain the following Lemmas 2.10 and 2.11.
Lemma 2.10
Let \(0\leq{C}<1\), problem (1.1) and (1.2) is equivalent to the following problem:
Lemma 2.11
FBVP (2.7) has the unique solution
Conversely, if \(y(t)\) satisfies (2.8), then \(y(t)\) is a solution of (2.7), where \(\overline{J}(t,s)\) is given by (2.4).
Lemma 2.12
The function \(\overline{J}(t,s)\) has the following properties:
-
(i)
\(\overline{J}(t,s)\geq0\), \((t,s)\in{{[\varepsilon,b+\varepsilon]_{\mathbb {N}_{\varepsilon}}}\times{[\nu-1,b+\nu-1]_{\mathbb{N}_{\nu-1}}}}\),
-
(ii)
\((b+\nu-2-t)^{\underline{\nu-\varepsilon-1}}m(s)\leq{\overline {J}(t,s)}\leq{M(b+\nu-2-t)^{\underline{\nu-\varepsilon-1}}}\), \(t\in [\varepsilon,b+\varepsilon]_{\mathbb{N}_{\varepsilon}}\), where \(\overline{J}(t,s)\) is given by (2.4), and
$$\begin{aligned}& m(s)=\frac{G_{A}(s)}{(1-C)\Gamma(\nu-\varepsilon)}, \\& M=1+\frac{{\Vert {G_{A}}\Vert }}{(1-C)\Gamma(\nu-\varepsilon )}, \quad\quad {\Vert {G_{A}}\Vert }=\max _{s\in{[\nu-1,b+\nu -1]_{\mathbb{N}_{\nu-1}}}}\bigl\vert {G_{A}{(s)}}\bigr\vert . \end{aligned}$$
The proof of (i) is similar to Theorem 3.2 of [18], hence it is omitted. For (ii), we note that
Then it is easy to get properties (ii).
Definition 2.3
A function \(\phi(t)\) is called a lower solution of (2.7) if it satisfies
Definition 2.4
A function \(\psi(t)\) is called an upper solution of (2.7) if it satisfies
Remark 2.2
Assume \(0\leq{C}<1\), \(G_{A}(s)\geq0\) for \(s\in{[\nu-1,b+\nu-1]_{\mathbb{N}_{\nu-1}}}\), and \({y}:[\varepsilon, b+\varepsilon]_{\mathbb{N}_{\varepsilon}}\rightarrow {\mathbb{R}}\) with
Then \(y(t)\geq0\), \(t\in{[\varepsilon,b+\varepsilon]_{\mathbb {N}_{\varepsilon}}}\).
In fact, let \(-_{b+\varepsilon-1}\nabla^{\nu-\varepsilon}y(t)=\eta(t)\). Then \(y(t)=\sum_{s=\nu-1}^{b+\nu-2}{\overline{J}(t,s)\eta(s)}\).
From \(\eta(t)\geq0\), we can get the conclusion \(y(t)\geq0\), \(t\in {[\varepsilon,b+\varepsilon]_{\mathbb{N}_{\varepsilon}}}\).
Lemma 2.13
Schauder fixed point theorem
Let T be a continuous and compact mapping of a Banach space \(\mathbb{E}\) into itself such that the set
for some \(0\leq{\sigma}\leq1\) is bounded. Then T has a fixed point.
3 The method of upper and lower solutions
To establish the existence of a solution for the boundary value problem, we need to make the following assumptions.
- \((H_{4})\) :
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A is defined on \([0,b]_{\mathbb{N}_{0}}\), satisfying \(G_{A}(s)\geq0\) for \(s\in{[\nu-1,b+\nu-1]_{\mathbb{N}_{\nu-1}}}\), and \(0\leq {C}<1\).
- \((H_{5})\) :
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\(f(\cdot,u,s): [0,b]_{\mathbb{N}_{0}}\times[0,+\infty)\times [0,+\infty)\rightarrow[0,+\infty)\) is continuous and is nonincreasing on u and s. For all \(\lambda{\in(0,1)}\), there exist two constants \(\mu_{1},\mu_{2}>0\) such that, for any \((t,u,s)\in[0,b]_{\mathbb {N}_{0}}\times[0,+\infty)\times[0,+\infty)\),
$$\begin{aligned}& f(t,\lambda{u},s)\leq{\lambda^{-\mu_{1}}}f(t,{u},s), \end{aligned}$$(3.1)$$\begin{aligned}& f(t,{u},\lambda{s})\leq{\lambda^{-\mu_{2}}}f(t,{u},s). \end{aligned}$$(3.2)
Remark 3.1
Inequalities (3.1), (3.2) are equivalent to the following inequalities (3.3), (3.4), respectively:
Now we denote
and \(g(t)=f (t',{_{b+\varepsilon-1}\nabla^{-\varepsilon }}(t'')^{\underline{\nu-\varepsilon-1}},(t'' -\varepsilon)^{\underline{\nu-\varepsilon-1}} )\), \(t\in\mathbb{T}\). Then \(g(t)\in{C (\mathbb{T},\mathbb{R} )}\), for \(m\in(0,1)\), we define
Theorem 3.1
Suppose that \((H_{4})\) and \((H_{5})\) hold. Then there exists a constant \(\lambda^{\ast}>0\) such that FBVP (2.7) has at least one positive solution \(w(t)\) for any \(\lambda\in{(\lambda^{\ast},+\infty)}\). Moreover, there exists a constant \(0< l<1\) such that
Proof
Let \(Q=C ([\varepsilon,b+\varepsilon]_{\mathbb{N}_{\varepsilon}},\mathbb {R} )\), and define a subset P of Q as follows:
Clearly, P is a nonempty set since \((b+\nu-2-t)^{\underline{\nu -\varepsilon-1}}\in{P}\). Now define the operator \(T_{\lambda}\) in P.
where \(\overline{J}(t,s)\) is given by (2.4).
We assert that \(T_{\lambda}\) is well defined and \(T_{\lambda}(P)\subset {P}\).
In fact, for any \(y\in{P}\), there exists a positive number \(0< l_{y}<1\) such that
Thus, by Lemma 2.12, condition \((H_{5})\), Hölder’s inequality and noticing \(m\in(0,1)\), we get
i.e.,
On the other hand, using Lemma 2.12 and Remark 3.1, we have
Therefore
Choose
Then it follows from (3.6), (3.7) and (3.8) that
Next we shall devote our attention to finding the upper and lower solutions of FBVP (2.7). Let
By Lemma 2.12, we have
and consequently there exists a constant \(\lambda_{1}\geq{1}\) such that
Thus, for any \(\lambda>\lambda_{1}\), by \((H_{5})\) and similar to (3.6), we have
and
Now let
Take
Then by Lemma 2.12, (3.3) and (3.4), for \({\forall{t}} \in {[\varepsilon,b+\varepsilon]_{\mathbb{N}_{\varepsilon}}}\), we can get
That is to say,
Let
It follows from (3.9) and (3.10) that for any \({{t}\in{[\varepsilon,b+\varepsilon]_{\mathbb{N}_{\varepsilon}}}}\),
Moreover, by (3.11) and (3.12), we know
Proceeding as in (3.6)-(3.8), we get that \(\phi(t),\psi(t)\in P\). By (3.10), we have
which implies
Thus, taking account of f being nonincreasing, and by (3.11), (3.14) and (3.15), we have
It follows from (3.13) and (3.15)-(3.17) that \(\psi(t),\phi(t)\) are upper and lower solutions of FBVP (2.7) and \(\psi(t),\phi(t)\in P\).
Now we define a function
It then follows from \((H_{5})\) and (3.18) that \(F(t,u,s):[0,b]_{\mathbb {N}_{0}}\times [0,+\infty)\times[0,+\infty)\longrightarrow[0,+\infty)\) is continuous.
We now show that the FBVP
has a positive solution.
Define the operator \(D_{\lambda^{\ast}}\) by
Then \(D_{\lambda^{\ast}}:C ([\varepsilon,b+\varepsilon]_{\mathbb {N}_{\varepsilon}},\mathbb{R} )\rightarrow C ([\varepsilon,b+\varepsilon]_{\mathbb{N}_{\varepsilon}},\mathbb {R} )\), and a fixed point of the operator \(D_{\lambda^{\ast}}\) is a solution of FBVP (3.19).
On the other hand, from the definition of F and the fact that the function f is nonincreasing on the second and third variable, we obtain
provided that \(\psi(t)\leq y(t)\leq\phi(t)\);
provided that \(y(t)< \psi(t)\);
provided that \(y(t)>\phi(t)\). So we have
Furthermore, by (3.13), (3.14) and (3.21), we have
It follows from Lemma 2.12 and (3.22) that for any \(y\in P\),
namely the operator \(D_{\lambda^{\ast}}\) is uniformly bounded.
Next, let \(\Omega\subset P\) be bounded. Since the right side of (3.20) is finite sum, we can prove that \(D()\) is equicontinuous. By the Arzela-Ascoli theorem, we have \(D_{\lambda^{\ast}}:P\rightarrow P \) is completely continuous. Moreover, (3.23) implies that \(D_{\lambda^{\ast}}\) satisfies the conditions of Lemma 2.13. Thus, by using the Schauder fixed point theorem, \(D_{\lambda^{\ast}}\) has at least one fixed point w such that \(w=D_{\lambda^{\ast}}w\).
Now we prove
Since w is a fixed point of \(D_{\lambda^{\ast}}\), we have
From (3.11), (3.22) and noticing that w is a fixed point of \(D_{\lambda^{\ast}}\), we also have
Let
Then
Moreover, we have \(z(t)\leq0\), i.e., \(\varphi_{p} (_{b+\varepsilon-1}\nabla^{\nu-\varepsilon}\phi(t) ) -\varphi_{p} (_{b+\varepsilon-1}\nabla^{\nu-\varepsilon}w(t) )\leq 0\).
In fact, if we denote that
according to Lemma 2.6, we have
In view of \(K_{1}=0\), hence \(z(t)\leq0\).
Noticing that \(\varphi_{p}\) is monotone increasing and \(_{b+\varepsilon-1}\nabla^{\nu-\varepsilon}\) is a linear operator, we have
It follows from Remark 2.2 and (3.24) that
Thus we have \(w(t)\leq\phi(t)\) for \(t\in[\varepsilon,b+\varepsilon]_{\mathbb{N}_{\varepsilon}}\). In the same way, we also have \(w(t)\geq\psi(t)\) for \(t\in[\varepsilon,b+\varepsilon]_{\mathbb{N}_{\varepsilon}}\), so
Consequently,
Hence \(w(t)\) is a positive solution of FBVP (3.19), i.e., \(y(t)=_{b+\varepsilon-1}\nabla^{-\varepsilon}w(t)\) is a positive solution of problem (1.1) and (1.2).
Finally, by (3.25) and \(\phi,\psi\in P\), we have
Let \(l_{y}=\min\{l_{\psi},l_{\phi}\}\), then
□
4 Iteration of positive solutions
To study the iteration of positive solutions to FBVP (1.1) and (1.2), we need the following assumption.
- \((H_{6})\) :
-
\(f(\cdot,u,s):[0,b]_{\mathbb{N}_{0}}\times[0,+\infty)\times [0,+\infty)\rightarrow[0,+\infty)\) is continuous, and there exist two constants \(r_{1},r_{2}>0\) such that for any \(t\in[0,b]_{\mathbb {N}_{0}}\), \(u,s\in[0,+\infty)\).
$$\begin{aligned}& f(t,\lambda{u},s)\geq{\lambda}^{r_{1}}f(t,{u},s), \quad {\forall}\lambda\in (0,1), \end{aligned}$$(4.1)$$\begin{aligned}& f(t,{u},\lambda{s})\geq{\lambda}^{r_{2}}f(t,{u},s), \quad {\forall}\lambda \in(0,1). \end{aligned}$$(4.2)
Remark 4.1
Inequalities (4.1), (4.2) are equivalent to the following inequalities, respectively:
Definition 4.1
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Let \(\mathbb{E}\) be a real Banach space. Let P be a nonempty, convex closed set in \(\mathbb{E}\). We say that P is a cone if it satisfies the following properties:
-
(i)
\(\lambda u\in P\) for \(u\in P\), \(\lambda\geq0\);
-
(ii)
\(u, -u\in P\) implies \(u=\theta\) (θ denotes the null element of \(\mathbb{E}\)).
Let the Banach space \(\mathbb{E}=C[\varepsilon,\varepsilon+b]_{\mathbb{N}{\varepsilon}}\) be endowed with the norm
In addition, \(\mathbb{E}^{+}=\{u\in\mathbb{E}\mid u(t)\geq0, t\in [\varepsilon,\varepsilon+b]_{\mathbb{N}_{\varepsilon}}\}\).
Define the cone \(P\subset\mathbb{E}\) by
for any \(y(t)\in\mathbb{E}^{+}\), \(\lambda>0\). Define an operator
where \(\overline{J}(t,s)\) is given by (2.4).
Lemma 4.1
Assume that \((H_{1})\), \((H_{2})\) and \((H_{6})\) hold, then the operator \(T: P\rightarrow P\) is completely continuous.
Proof
From \((H_{1})\), \((H_{2})\), \((H_{6})\) and the definition of T, we deduce that for any \(y\in P\), there is \((Ty)(t)\geq0\).
which implies \(T(P)\subset P\). □
For convenience, we use the following notations. Let
We now give our results for the iteration of a positive solution for (2.7).
Theorem 4.1
Suppose that \((H_{1})\)-\((H_{3})\) and \((H_{6})\) hold. If there exists a positive constant \(a>1\) such that
- \((H_{7})\) :
-
\(f(t,u_{1},s_{1})\leq f(t,u_{2},s _{2})\) for any \(t\in[0,b]_{\mathbb{N}_{0}}\), \(0\leq u_{1}< u_{2}\leq a\), \(0\leq s_{1} < s_{2}\leq a\),
- \((H_{8})\) :
-
\(\varphi_{p}(N)\leq\frac{\varphi_{p}(a)}{ \lambda\sigma a^{r_{1}+r_{2}}k^{r_{1}}}\), where \(k=\frac{(b+\varepsilon-1)^{\underline{\varepsilon}}}{\Gamma(\varepsilon +1)}\). \(r_{1}\), \(r_{2}\), σ are defined by (4.1), (4.2) and (1.3), respectively. Then FBVP (2.7) has two positive solutions \(u^{\ast}\) and \(w^{\ast}\) such that \(0\leq \Vert u^{\ast} \Vert \leq a\), \(0\leq \Vert w^{\ast} \Vert \leq a\).
Moreover,
where \(u_{0}(t)=\frac{a}{B}\sum_{s=\nu-1}^{b+\nu-2}\overline {J}(t,s)\), \(w_{0}(t)=0\), \(t\in[\varepsilon,\varepsilon+b]_{\mathbb {N}_{\varepsilon}}\). T is defined by (4.5).
The iterative schemes in the theorem are
and
Proof
Let \(\overline{P}_{a}=\{u\in P:0\leq \Vert u\Vert \leq a\}\), we firstly prove \(T\overline{P}_{a}\subset\overline{P}_{a}\).
If \(u\in\overline{P}_{a}\), \(Tu\in{P}\), by \((H_{7})\) we have
where \(k=\frac{(b+\varepsilon-1)^{\underline{\varepsilon}}}{\Gamma(\varepsilon +1)}\geq{_{b+\varepsilon-1}\nabla^{-\varepsilon}}1=1+\frac{1}{\Gamma (\varepsilon)}{\sum_{s=t+\varepsilon+1}^{b+\varepsilon -1}}(s-t-1)^{\underline{\varepsilon-1}}>1\).
Since
we get \(\Vert Tu\Vert \leq a\). So we have shown that \(T\overline{P}_{a}\subset\overline{P}_{a}\).
Let \(u_{0}(t)=\frac{a}{B}\sum_{s=\nu-1}^{b+\nu-2}\overline {J}(t,s)\), \(t\in[\varepsilon,\varepsilon+b]_{\mathbb{N}_{\varepsilon}}\).
Then
It is easy to get
So \(u_{0}\in\overline{P}_{a}\).
Let \(u_{1}=Tu_{0}\), we have \(u_{1}\in\overline{P}_{a}\).
We define \(u_{n+1}=Tu_{n}=T^{n+1}u_{0}\), \(n=0,1,2,\ldots\) .
It follows from \(T\overline{P}_{a}\subset\overline{P}_{a}\) that \(u_{n}\in\overline{P}_{a}\), \(n=0,1,2,\ldots\) . Since T is completely continuous, we can assert that \(\{u_{n}\}\) is a sequentially compact set.
Since
and
we obtain \(u_{1}(t)\leq u_{0}(t)\), \(\vert _{b+\varepsilon-1}\nabla^{\nu-\varepsilon }u_{1}(t)\vert \leq \vert _{b+\varepsilon-1}\nabla^{\nu -\varepsilon}u_{0}(t)\vert \) and
By induction we get
Thus, there exists \(u^{*}\in{\overline{P}_{a}}\) such that \(u_{n}\rightarrow{u^{*}}\). Applying the continuity of T and \(u_{n+1}(t)=Tu_{n}(t)\), we get \(Tu^{*}(t)=u^{*}(t)\), which implies that \(u^{*}\) is a nonnegative solution of FBVP (2.7).
On the other hand, let \(w_{0}=0\), \(t\in[\varepsilon,\varepsilon+b]_{\mathbb{N}_{\varepsilon}}\), then \(w_{0}\in{\overline{P}_{a}}\). Let \(w_{1}=Tw_{0}\), then \(w_{1}\in{\overline{P}_{a}}\). Denote
It follows from \(T\overline{P}_{a}\subset\overline{P}_{a}\) that \(w_{n}\in \overline{P}_{a}\), \(n=0,1,2,\ldots\) . Since T is completely continuous, we can assert that \(\{w_{n}\}\) is a sequentially compact set.
Since \(w_{1}=Tw_{0}\in{\overline{P}_{a}}\), we have
So
By induction we get
Hence, there exists \(w^{*}\in{\overline{P}_{a}}\) such that \(w_{n}\rightarrow{w^{*}}\). Applying the continuity of T and \(w_{n+1}(t)=Tw_{n}(t)\), we obtain \(Tw^{*}(t)=w^{*}(t)\), which implies that \(w^{*}\) is a nonnegative solution of FBVP (2.7).
Thus FBVP (2.7) has two positive solutions \(u^{*}\), \(w^{*}\) such that \(0\leq \Vert u^{*}\Vert \leq{a}\), \(0\leq \Vert w^{*} \Vert \leq{a}\), and from the above proof, we know that the iterative sequences hold. □
In order to illustrate the main result, we give the following example.
Example 4.1
Consider the following FBVP:
where \(p=3\), \(\nu=\frac{3}{2}\), \(\beta=\frac{1}{2}\), \(\varepsilon=\frac {1}{3}\), \(\lambda=1\), \(b=2\),
Let
then for any \(\lambda\in(0,1)\) and \(u,s\in[0,+\infty)\), \(t\in[0,2]_{\mathbb{N}_{0}}\), we have
which implies that \((H_{6})\) holds.
On the other hand, it is clear that \((H_{1})\), \((H_{2})\) and \((H_{3})\) are satisfied, and
Next we compute k, C, B and N. We have
so
Take \(a= [\frac{1}{2} (\frac{\Gamma(\frac{1}{6})}{\Gamma(\frac {2}{3})\Gamma(\frac{1}{2})}+\frac{8}{\Gamma(\frac{1}{2})} )^{2}(2e^{2}+1) ]^{\frac{15}{16}}\), then
which implies that \((H_{8})\) holds. For \(a= [\frac{1}{2} (\frac{\Gamma(\frac{1}{6})}{\Gamma(\frac {2}{3})\Gamma(\frac{1}{2})}+\frac{8}{\Gamma(\frac{1}{2})} )^{2}(2e^{2}+1) ]^{\frac{15}{16}}\), it is clear that \((H_{7})\) holds. So by Theorem 4.1, FBVP (4.6) and (4.7) has two solutions \(u^{*}\) and \(w^{*}\) such that
where
and
where \(w_{0}(t)=0\), \(t\in[0,2]_{\mathbb{N}_{0}}\).
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Liu, H., Jin, Y. & Hou, C. Existence of positive solutions for discrete delta-nabla fractional boundary value problems with p-Laplacian. Bound Value Probl 2017, 60 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13661-017-0765-1
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