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Impulsive fractional boundary-value problems with fractional integral jump conditions

Abstract

In this paper we establish the existence and uniqueness of solutions for impulsive fractional boundary-value problems with fractional integral jump conditions. By using a variety of fixed-point theorems, some new existence and uniqueness results are obtained. Illustrative examples of our results are also presented.

MSC:34A08, 34B37, 34B15, 34B10.

1 Introduction

In this paper, we investigate the following boundary-value problem for impulsive fractional differential equations with fractional integral jump conditions:

{ D α c x ( t ) = f ( t , x ( t ) ) , t [ 0 , T ] { t 1 , t 2 , , t m } , Δ x ( t k ) = J k ( j = 1 k d k , j I β k , j x ( t j ) ) , k = 1 , 2 , , m , a x ( 0 ) + b x ( T ) = c ,
(1.1)

where D α c is the Caputo fractional derivative of order α, 0<α<1, f:[0,T]×RR is a continuous function, J k :RR, Δx( t k )=x( t k + )x( t k ) with x( t k + )= lim h 0 + x( t k +h), x( t k )= lim h 0 x( t k +h), d k , j are constants, I β k , j is the Riemann-Liouville fractional integral of order β k , j >0 for j=1,2,k and k=1,2,,m, 0= t 0 < t 1 << t m < t m + 1 =T, a, b, c are given constants such that a+b0.

The integral jump conditions are very general and include many conditions as special cases. In particular, if d k , j = d j and β k , j = β j , then the impulsive fractional integral of equation (1.1) reduces to

Δ x ( t k ) = J k ( d 1 0 t 1 ( t s ) β 1 1 Γ ( β 1 ) x ( s ) d s + d 2 0 t 2 ( t s ) β 2 1 Γ ( β 2 ) x ( s ) d s + + d k 0 t k ( t s ) β k 1 Γ ( β k ) x ( s ) d s ) .

Recently, much attention has been paid to the existence of solutions for fractional differential equations due to its wide application in engineering, economics and other fields. A variety of results on initial- and boundary-value problems of fractional differential equations and inclusions can easily be found in the literature on the topic. For some recent results, we can refer to [113] and references cited therein.

On the other hand, integer order impulsive differential equations have become important in recent years as mathematical models of phenomena in both the physical and social sciences. There has a significant development in impulsive theory especially in the area of impulsive differential equations with fixed moments, see for instance [1424].

In this paper we prove some new existence and uniqueness results by using a variety of fixed-point theorems. In Theorem 3.1 we prove an existence and uniqueness result by using Banach’s contraction principle, in Theorem 3.2 we prove an existence and uniqueness result by using Banach’s contraction principle and Hölder’s inequality, in Theorem 3.3 we prove the existence of a solution by using Krasnoselskii’s fixed-point theorem, while in Theorem 3.4 we prove the existence of a solution via Leray-Schauder’s nonlinear alternative. Leray-Schauder’s degree theory is used in proving the existence result in Theorem 3.5.

The rest of the paper is organized as follows: In Section 2 we recall some preliminaries and present a basic lemma which is used to convert the impulsive fractional boundary-value problem (1.1) into an equivalent integral equation. The main results are presented in Section 3, while illustrative examples are contained in Section 4.

2 Preliminaries

Let PC([0,T],R) = {x:[0,T]R:x(t) is continuous everywhere except for some t k  at which x( t k + ) and x( t k ) exist and x( t k )=x( t k ), k=1,2,,m}. PC([0,T],R) is a Banach space endowed with the norm defined by x= sup t [ 0 , T ] |x(t)|. Next, we introduce some notations, definitions of fractional calculus [2527], and we present a preliminary result needed in our proofs later.

Definition 2.1 The Riemann-Liouville fractional integral of order α>0 of a function g L 1 ((0,T),R) is defined by

I α g(t)= 0 t ( t s ) α 1 Γ ( α ) g(s)ds,

where Γ is the Gamma function.

Definition 2.2 The Riemann-Liouville fractional derivative of order α>0 of a continuous function g:(0,)R is defined by

D α g(t)= 1 Γ ( n α ) ( d d t ) n 0 t g ( s ) ( t s ) α n + 1 ds,

where n=[α]+1, [α] denotes the integral part of real number α, provided the right-hand side is point-wise defined on (0,).

Definition 2.3 For a continuous function g:(0,)R, the Caputo derivative of fractional order α is defined as

D α c g(t)= 1 Γ ( n α ) 0 t ( t s ) n α 1 g ( n ) (s)ds,

where n=[α]+1, [α] denotes the integral part of real number α, provided g ( n ) (t) exists.

Lemma 2.1 ([28])

Let α(0,1) and h:[0,T]R be continuous. A function xC([0,T],R) is a solution of the fractional Cauchy problem

{ D α c x ( t ) = h ( t ) , t [ 0 , T ] , x ( η ) = x 0 , η > 0 ,

if and only if x is a solution of the following integral equation:

x ( t ) = x 0 1 Γ ( α ) 0 η ( η s ) α 1 h ( s ) d s + 1 Γ ( α ) 0 t ( t s ) α 1 h ( s ) d s .

Lemma 2.2 Let 0<α<1 and a+b0. The unique solution of the impulsive fractional boundary-value problem (1.1) is given by

x ( t ) = c a + b b a + b [ i = 1 m J i ( j = 1 i d i , j I β i , j x ( t j ) ) + 1 Γ ( α ) 0 T ( T s ) α 1 f ( s , x ( s ) ) d s ] + i = 1 k J i ( j = 1 i d i , j I β i , j x ( t j ) ) + 1 Γ ( α ) 0 t ( t s ) α 1 f ( s , x ( s ) ) d s .
(2.1)

Proof For t[ t 0 , t 1 ], Riemann-Liouville fractional integrating of order α, from 0 to t, for the first equation of (1.1), we have

x(t)=x(0)+ 1 Γ ( α ) 0 t ( t s ) α 1 f ( s , x ( s ) ) ds.
(2.2)

Substituting t= t 1 into (2.2), we get

x( t 1 )=x(0)+ 1 Γ ( α ) 0 t 1 ( t 1 s ) α 1 f ( s , x ( s ) ) ds.

For t( t 1 , t 2 ], by Lemma 2.1 with the second equation of (1.1), we obtain

x ( t ) = x ( t 1 + ) 1 Γ ( α ) 0 t 1 ( t 1 s ) α 1 f ( s , x ( s ) ) d s + 1 Γ ( α ) 0 t ( t s ) α 1 f ( s , x ( s ) ) d s = x ( t 1 ) + J 1 ( j = 1 1 d 1 , j I β 1 , j x ( t j ) ) 1 Γ ( α ) 0 t 1 ( t 1 s ) α 1 f ( s , x ( s ) ) d s + 1 Γ ( α ) 0 t ( t s ) α 1 f ( s , x ( s ) ) d s = x ( 0 ) + J 1 ( j = 1 1 d 1 , j I β 1 , j x ( t j ) ) + 1 Γ ( α ) 0 t ( t s ) α 1 f ( s , x ( s ) ) d s .

If t( t 2 , t 3 ] then again from Lemma 2.1, we have

x ( t ) = x ( t 2 + ) 1 Γ ( α ) 0 t 2 ( t 2 s ) α 1 f ( s , x ( s ) ) d s + 1 Γ ( α ) 0 t ( t s ) α 1 f ( s , x ( s ) ) d s = x ( 0 ) + i = 1 2 J i ( j = 1 i d i , j I β i , j x ( t j ) ) + 1 Γ ( α ) 0 t ( t s ) α 1 f ( s , x ( s ) ) d s .

If t( t k , t k + 1 ] then again from Lemma 2.1, we get

x(t)=x(0)+ i = 1 k J i ( j = 1 i d i , j I β i , j x ( t j ) ) + 1 Γ ( α ) 0 t ( t s ) α 1 f ( s , x ( s ) ) ds.

In particular, for t=T, we have

x(T)=x(0)+ i = 1 m J i ( j = 1 i d i , j I β i , j x ( t j ) ) + 1 Γ ( α ) 0 T ( T s ) α 1 f ( s , x ( s ) ) ds.
(2.3)

From the third equation of (1.1) and (2.3), we get

x(0)= c a + b b a + b [ i = 1 m J i ( j = 1 i d i , j I β i , j x ( t j ) ) + 1 Γ ( α ) 0 T ( T s ) α 1 f ( s , x ( s ) ) d s ] .

Therefore, we have

x ( t ) = c a + b b a + b [ i = 1 m J i ( j = 1 i d i , j I β i , j x ( t j ) ) + 1 Γ ( α ) 0 T ( T s ) α 1 f ( s , x ( s ) ) d s ] + i = 1 k J i ( j = 1 i d i , j I β i , j x ( t j ) ) + 1 Γ ( α ) 0 t ( t s ) α 1 f ( s , x ( s ) ) d s .

This completes the proof. □

As in Lemma 2.2, we define an operator A:PC([0,T],R)PC([0,T],R) by

( A x ) ( t ) = c a + b b a + b [ i = 1 m J i ( j = 1 i d i , j I β i , j x ( t j ) ) + 1 Γ ( α ) 0 T ( T s ) α 1 f ( s , x ( s ) ) d s ] + i = 1 k J i ( j = 1 i d i , j I β i , j x ( t j ) ) + 1 Γ ( α ) 0 t ( t s ) α 1 f ( s , x ( s ) ) d s ,
(2.4)

with a+b0. It should be noticed that problem (1.1) has solutions if and only if the operator A has fixed points.

3 Main results

We are in a position to establish our main results. In the following subsections we prove existence as well as existence and uniqueness results for the impulsive fractional BVP (1.1) by using a variety of fixed-point theorems.

3.1 Existence and uniqueness results via Banach’s fixed-point theorem

In this subsection we give first an existence and uniqueness result for the impulsive fractional BVP (1.1) by using Banach’s fixed-point theorem.

For convenience, we set

Ω= | a + b | + | b | | a + b | Γ ( α + 1 ) T α ,
(3.1)
Φ= ( | a + b | + | b | | a + b | ) i = 1 m j = 1 i | d i , j | t j β i , j Γ ( β i , j + 1 ) ,
(3.2)
Ψ= ( | a + b | + | b | ) m N + | c | | a + b | .
(3.3)

Theorem 3.1 Assume the following.

(H1) There exists a constant L 1 >0 such that |f(t,x)f(t,y)| L 1 |xy|, for each t[0,T] and x,yR.

(H2) There exists a constant L 2 >0 such that | J k (x) J k (y)| L 2 |xy| for each x,yR, k=1,2,,m.

If

Λ:= L 1 Ω+ L 2 Φδε<1,
(3.4)

then impulsive fractional boundary-value problem (1.1) has a unique solution in [0,T].

Proof We transform the problem (1.1) into a fixed-point problem, x=Ax, where the operator A is defined by equation (2.4). Using Banach’s contraction principle, we shall show that A has a fixed point.

Setting sup t [ 0 , T ] |f(t,0)|=M<, sup{| J k (0)|;k=1,2,,m}=N< and choosing r 1 1 ε (MΩ+Ψ), we show that A B r B r , where B r ={xPC([0,T],R):xr}. For x B r , we have

A x sup t [ 0 , T ] { | b | | a + b | [ i = 1 m | J i ( j = 1 i d i , j I β i , j x ( t j ) ) | + 1 Γ ( α ) 0 T ( T s ) α 1 | f ( s , x ( s ) ) | d s ] + i = 1 k | J i ( j = 1 i d i , j I β i , j x ( t j ) ) | + 1 Γ ( α ) 0 t ( t s ) α 1 | f ( s , x ( s ) ) | d s + | c | | a + b | } | a + b | + | b | | a + b | { i = 1 m [ | J i ( j = 1 i d i , j I β i , j x ( t j ) ) J i ( 0 ) | + | J i ( 0 ) | ] + 1 Γ ( α ) 0 T ( T s ) α 1 ( | f ( s , x ( s ) ) f ( s , 0 ) | + | f ( s , 0 ) | ) d s } + | c | | a + b | | a + b | + | b | | a + b | { i = 1 m [ L 2 | j = 1 i d i , j I β i , j x ( t j ) | + N ] + L 1 r + M Γ ( α ) 0 T ( T s ) α 1 d s } + | c | | a + b | | a + b | + | b | | a + b | { i = 1 m [ L 2 r j = 1 i | d i , j | t j β i , j Γ ( β i , j + 1 ) + N ] + ( L 1 r + M ) T α Γ ( α + 1 ) } + | c | | a + b | = ( L 1 r + M ) Ω + L 2 r Φ + Ψ ( δ + 1 ε ) r r ,

which proves that A B r B r .

Now let x,yPC([0,T],R). Then, for t[0,T], we have

| ( A x ) ( t ) ( A y ) ( t ) | sup t [ 0 , T ] { | b | | a + b | [ i = 1 m | J i ( j = 1 i d i , j I β i , j x ( t j ) ) J i ( j = 1 i d i , j I β i , j y ( t j ) ) | + 1 Γ ( α ) 0 T ( T s ) α 1 | f ( s , x ( s ) ) f ( s , y ( s ) ) | d s ] + i = 1 k | J i ( j = 1 i d i , j I β i , j x ( t j ) ) J i ( j = 1 i d i , j I β i , j y ( t j ) ) | + 1 Γ ( α ) 0 t ( t s ) α 1 | f ( s , x ( s ) ) f ( s , y ( s ) ) | d s } | a + b | + | b | | a + b | [ L 2 x y i = 1 m j = 1 i | d i , j | Γ ( β i , j ) 0 t j ( t j s ) β i , j 1 d s + L 1 x y Γ ( α ) 0 T ( T s ) α 1 d s ] = L 1 Ω x y + L 2 Φ x y .

Therefore,

AuAvΛuv.

As follows from equation (3.4), A is a contraction. As a consequence of Banach’s fixed-point theorem, we have A has a fixed point which is a unique solution of the impulsive fractional boundary-value problem (1.1). This completes the proof. □

Now we give another existence and uniqueness result for impulsive fractional BVP (1.1) by using Banach’s fixed-point theorem and Hölder’s inequality. In addition, for σ(0,1), we set

Ω = ( | a + b | + | b | | a + b | Γ ( α ) ) ( 1 γ α γ ) 1 γ T α γ ,
(3.5)
Φ = ( | a + b | + | b | | a + b | ) ( i = 1 m ( j = 1 i | d i , j | t j β i , j Γ ( β i , j + 1 ) ) 1 1 σ ) 1 σ ,
(3.6)
η = ( i = 1 m ( η i ) 1 σ ) σ .
(3.7)

Theorem 3.2 Assume that the following conditions hold:

(H3) |f(t,x)f(t,y)|ξ(t)|xy|, for each t[0,T], x,yR, where ξ L 1 γ ([0,T], R + ), γ(0,α).

(H4) | J i (x) J i (y)| η i |xy|, for each x,yR, with constants η i >0, i=1,2,,m.

Denote ξ= ( 0 T | ξ ( s ) | 1 γ d s ) γ .

If

ξ Ω + η Φ <1,

then the impulsive fractional boundary-value problem (1.1) has a unique solution.

Proof For x,yPC([0,T],R) and for each t[0,T], by Hölder’s inequality, we get

| ( A x ) ( t ) ( A y ) ( t ) | sup t [ 0 , T ] { | b | | a + b | [ i = 1 m | J i ( j = 1 i d i , j I β i , j x ( t j ) ) J i ( j = 1 i d i , j I β i , j y ( t j ) ) | + 1 Γ ( α ) 0 T ( T s ) α 1 | f ( s , x ( s ) ) f ( s , y ( s ) ) | d s ] + i = 1 k | J i ( j = 1 i d i , j I β i , j x ( t j ) ) J i ( j = 1 i d i , j I β i , j y ( t j ) ) | + 1 Γ ( α ) 0 t ( t s ) α 1 | f ( s , x ( s ) ) f ( s , y ( s ) ) | d s } | a + b | + | b | | a + b | [ i = 1 m η i j = 1 i | d i , j | Γ ( β i , j ) 0 t j ( t j s ) β i , j 1 | x y | d s + 1 Γ ( α ) 0 T ( T s ) α 1 ξ ( s ) | x y | d s ] { | a + b | + | b | | a + b | [ ( i = 1 m ( η i ) 1 σ ) σ ( i = 1 m ( j = 1 i | d i , j | Γ ( β i , j ) 0 t j ( t j s ) β i , j 1 d s ) 1 1 σ ) 1 σ + 1 Γ ( α ) ( 0 T ( ( T s ) α 1 ) 1 1 γ d s ) 1 γ ( 0 T ( ξ ( s ) ) 1 γ d s ) γ ] } x y { | a + b | + | b | | a + b | [ η ( i = 1 m ( j = 1 i | d i , j | t j β i , j Γ ( β i , j + 1 ) ) 1 1 σ ) 1 σ + ξ Γ ( α ) ( 1 γ α γ ) 1 γ T α γ ] } x y = ( ξ Ω + η Φ ) x y .

Therefore,

AxAy ( ξ Ω + η Φ ) xy.

It follows that A is a contraction mapping. Hence Banach’s fixed-point theorem implies that A has a unique fixed point, which is the unique solution of the impulsive fractional boundary-value problem (1.1). This completes the proof. □

3.2 Existence result via Krasnoselskii’s fixed-point theorem

Lemma 3.1 (Krasnoselskii’s fixed point theorem) [29]

Let M be a closed, bounded, convex and nonempty subset of a Banach space X. Let A, B be the operators such that (a) Ax+ByM whenever x,yM; (b) A is compact and continuous; (c) B is a contraction mapping. Then there exists zM such that z=Az+Bz.

Theorem 3.3 Let f:[0,T]×RR be a continuous function and let (H2) holds. In addition, we assume that:

(H5) |f(t,x)|μ(t), (t,x)[0,T]×R, and μC([0,T], R + ).

(H6) There exists a constant N>0 such that | J k (x)|N, xR, for k=1,2,,m.

Then the impulsive fractional boundary-value problem (1.1) has at least one solution on [0,T] if

L 2 Φ<1,
(3.8)

where Φ is defined by equation (3.2).

Proof We define sup t [ 0 , T ] |μ(t)|=μ and choose a suitable constant r ¯ as

r ¯ μΩ+Ψ,

where Ω and Ψ are defined by equations (3.1) and (3.3), respectively. We define the operators P and Q on B r ¯ ={xPC([0,T],R):x r ¯ } as

( P x ) ( t ) = b ( a + b ) Γ ( α ) 0 T ( T s ) α 1 f ( s , x ( s ) ) d s + 1 Γ ( α ) 0 t ( t s ) α 1 f ( s , x ( s ) ) d s , ( Q x ) ( t ) = c a + b b a + b i = 1 m J i ( j = 1 i d i , j I β i , j x ( t j ) ) + i = 1 k J i ( j = 1 i d i , j I β i , j x ( t j ) ) .

For x,y B r ¯ , we find that

P x + Q y μ ( | a + b | + | b | | a + b | Γ ( α + 1 ) ) T α + ( | a + b | + | b | ) m N + | c | | a + b | μ Ω + Ψ r ¯ .

Thus, Px+Qy B r ¯ . It follows from the assumption (H2) together with (3.8) that Q is a contraction mapping. Continuity of f implies that the operator P is continuous. Also, P is uniformly bounded on B r ¯ as

PxμΩ.

Now we prove the compactness of the operator P.

We define sup ( t , x ) [ 0 , T ] × B r ¯ |f(t,x)|= f ¯ <, τ 1 , τ 2 [0,T] with τ 1 < τ 2 and consequently we have

| ( P x ) ( τ 2 ) ( P x ) ( τ 1 ) | = 1 Γ ( α ) | 0 τ 1 [ ( τ 2 s ) α 1 ( τ 1 s ) α 1 ] f ( s , x ( s ) ) d s + τ 1 τ 2 ( τ 2 s ) α 1 f ( s , x ( s ) ) d s | f ¯ Γ ( α + 1 ) | τ 2 α τ 1 α | ,

which is independent of x and tends to zero as τ 2 τ 1 0. Thus, P is equicontinuous. So P is relatively compact on B r ¯ . Hence, by the Arzelá-Ascoli theorem, P is compact on B r ¯ . Thus all the assumptions of Lemma 3.1 are satisfied. So the conclusion of Lemma 3.1 implies that the impulsive fractional boundary-value problem (1.1) has at least one solution on [0,T]. The proof is completed. □

3.3 Existence result via Leray-Schauder’s Nonlinear Alternative

Lemma 3.2 (Nonlinear alternative for single valued maps) [30]

Let E be a Banach space, C a closed, convex subset of E, U an open subset of C and 0U. Suppose that F: U ¯ C is a continuous, compact (that is, F( U ¯ ) is a relatively compact subset of C) map. Then either

  1. (i)

    F has a fixed point in U ¯ , or

  2. (ii)

    there is a uU (the boundary of U in C) and λ(0,1) with u=λF(u).

Theorem 3.4 Assume the following.

(H7) There exist a continuous nondecreasing function ψ:[0,)(0,) and a function p L 1 ([0,T], R + ) such that

|f(t,x)|p(t)ψ ( | x | ) for each (t,x)[0,T]×R.

(H8) There exists a continuous nondecreasing function φ:[0,)(0,) such that

| J k (x)|φ ( | x | ) for all xR.

(H9) There exists a constant M >0 such that

M ( | a + b | + | b | | a + b | ) i = 1 m φ ( M j = 1 i | d i , j | t j β i , j Γ ( β i , j + 1 ) ) + ψ ( M ) p L 1 Ω + | c | | a + b | >1.

Then the impulsive fractional boundary-value problem (1.1) has at least one solution on [0,T].

Proof We show that A maps bounded sets (balls) into bounded sets in PC([0,T],R). For a positive number r, let B r ={xC([0,T],R):xr} be a bounded ball in PC([0,T],R). Then for t[0,T] we have

| A x ( t ) | | b | | a + b | [ i = 1 m | J i ( j = 1 i d i , j I β i , j x ( t j ) ) | + 1 Γ ( α ) 0 T ( T s ) α 1 | f ( s , x ( s ) ) | d s ] + i = 1 k | J i ( j = 1 i d i , j I β i , j x ( t j ) ) | + 1 Γ ( α ) 0 t ( t s ) α 1 | f ( s , x ( s ) ) | d s + | c | | a + b | | a + b | + | b | | a + b | [ i = 1 m | J i ( j = 1 i d i , j I β i , j x ( t j ) ) | + 1 Γ ( α ) 0 T ( T s ) α 1 | f ( s , x ( s ) ) | d s ] + | c | | a + b | | a + b | + | b | | a + b | [ i = 1 m φ ( | j = 1 i d i , j I β i , j x ( t j ) | ) + ψ ( x ) Γ ( α ) 0 T ( T s ) α 1 p ( s ) d s ] + | c | | a + b | | a + b | + | b | | a + b | [ i = 1 m φ ( j = 1 i | d i , j | t j β i , j Γ ( β i , j + 1 ) x ) + ψ ( x ) p L 1 Γ ( α + 1 ) T α ] + | c | | a + b | .

Consequently

Ax | a + b | + | b | | a + b | i = 1 m φ ( j = 1 i | d i , j | t j β i , j Γ ( β i , j + 1 ) r ) +ψ(r) p L 1 Ω+ | c | | a + b | .

Next we show that A maps bounded sets into equicontinuous sets of PC([0,T],R). Let sup ( t , x ) [ 0 , T ] × B r |f(t,x)|= f <, τ 1 , τ 2 [0,T] with τ 1 ( t u , t u + 1 ], τ 2 ( t v , t v + 1 ], uv, u,v{1,2,,m} and x B r . Then we have

| ( A x ) ( τ 2 ) ( A x ) ( τ 1 ) | 1 Γ ( α ) | 0 τ 1 [ ( τ 2 s ) α 1 ( τ 1 s ) α 1 ] f ( s , x ( s ) ) d s + τ 1 τ 2 ( τ 2 s ) α 1 f ( s , x ( s ) ) d s | + i = u + 1 v | J i ( j = 1 i d i , j I β i , j x ( t j ) ) | f Γ ( α + 1 ) | τ 2 α τ 1 α | + i = u + 1 v | J i ( j = 1 i d i , j I β i , j x ( t j ) ) | .

Obviously the right-hand side of the above inequality tends to zero independently of x B r as τ 2 τ 1 0. As A satisfies the above assumptions, therefore it follows by the Arzelá-Ascoli theorem that A:PC([0,T],R)PC([0,T],R) is completely continuous.

Let x be a solution. Then, for t[0,T], and following the similar computations as in the first step, we have

x | a + b | + | b | | a + b | i = 1 m φ ( j = 1 i | d i , j | t j β i , j Γ ( β i , j + 1 ) x ) +ψ ( x ) p L 1 Ω+ | c | | a + b | .

Consequently, we have

x ( | a + b | + | b | | a + b | ) i = 1 m φ ( j = 1 i | d i , j | t j β i , j Γ ( β i , j + 1 ) x ) + ψ ( x ) p L 1 Ω + | c | | a + b | 1.

In view of (H9), there exists M such that x M . Let us set

U= { x PC ( [ 0 , T ] , R ) : x < M } .

Note that the operator A: U ¯ PC([0,T],R) is continuous and completely continuous. From the choice of U, there is no xU such that x=λAx for some λ(0,1). Consequently, by the nonlinear alternative of Leray-Schauder type (Lemma 3.2), we deduce that A has a fixed point x U ¯ which is a solution of the problem (1.1). This completes the proof. □

3.4 Existence result via Leray-Schauder degree

Theorem 3.5 Assume the following.

(H10) There exist constants 0κ< Ω 1 and M>0 such that

|f(t,x)|κ|x|+Mfor all (t,x)[0,T]×R.

(H11) There exist constants 0γ<(1κΩ) Φ 1 and N>0 such that

| J k (x)|γ|x|+Nfor all xR,

where Ω and Φ are given by equations (3.1) and (3.2), respectively.

Then the impulsive fractional boundary-value problem (1.1) has at least one solution on [0,T].

Proof We define an operator A:PC([0,T],R)PC([0,T],R) as in equation (2.4) and consider the fixed-point problem

x=Ax.
(3.9)

We are going to prove that there exists a fixed point xPC([0,T],R) satisfying equation (3.9). It is sufficient to show that A: B ¯ R PC([0,T],R) satisfies

xλAx,x B R ,λ[0,1],
(3.10)

where B R ={xPC([0,T],R): max t [ 0 , T ] |x(t)|<R,R>0}. We define

H(λ,x)=λAx,xPC ( [ 0 , T ] , R ) ,λ[0,1].

As shown in Theorem 3.4, we find that the operator A is continuous, uniformly bounded, and equicontinuous. Then, by the Arzelá-Ascoli theorem, a continuous map h λ defined by h λ (x)=xH(λ,x)=xλAx is completely continuous. If equation (3.10) is true, then the following Leray-Schauder degrees are well defined and by the homotopy invariance of topological degree, it follows that

deg ( h λ , B R , 0 ) = deg ( I λ A , B R , 0 ) = deg ( h 1 , B R , 0 ) = deg ( h 0 , B R , 0 ) = deg ( I , B R , 0 ) = 1 0 , 0 B R ,
(3.11)

where I denotes the identity operator. By the nonzero property of the Leray-Schauder degree, h 1 (x)=xAx=0 for at least one x B R . In order to prove equation (3.10), we assume that x=λAx for some λ[0,1]. Then

| A x ( t ) | sup t [ 0 , T ] { | b | | a + b | [ i = 1 m | J i ( j = 1 i d i , j I β i , j x ( t j ) ) | + 1 Γ ( α ) 0 T ( T s ) α 1 | f ( s , x ( s ) ) | d s ] + i = 1 k | J i ( j = 1 i d i , j I β i , j x ( t j ) ) | + 1 Γ ( α ) 0 t ( t s ) α 1 | f ( s , x ( s ) ) | d s + | c | | a + b | } | a + b | + | b | | a + b | [ i = 1 m | J i ( j = 1 i d i , j I β i , j x ( t j ) ) | + 1 Γ ( α ) 0 T ( T s ) α 1 | f ( s , x ( s ) ) | d s ] + | c | | a + b | | a + b | + | b | | a + b | [ i = 1 m ( γ | j = 1 i d i , j I β i , j x ( t j ) | + N ) + κ | x | + M Γ ( α ) 0 T ( T s ) α 1 d s ] + | c | | a + b | | a + b | + | b | | a + b | [ ( γ x i = 1 m j = 1 i | d i , j | t j β i , j Γ ( β i , j + 1 ) + m N ) + κ x + M Γ ( α + 1 ) T α ] + | c | | a + b | ( κ x + M ) Ω + γ x Φ + Ψ .

Computing directly for x= sup t [ 0 , T ] |x(t)|, we have

x M Ω + Ψ 1 κ Ω γ Φ .

If R= M Ω + Ψ 1 κ Ω γ Φ +1, inequality (3.10) holds. This completes the proof. □

4 Examples

In this section we give examples to illustrate our results.

Example 4.1 Consider the following impulsive fractional boundary-value problem:

D 2 3 c x(t)= sin π t ( t + 1 ) | x ( t ) | 4 + 2 | x ( t ) | ,t ( 0 , 3 4 ) ,t 1 4 , 1 2 ,
(4.1)
Δ x ( 1 4 ) = J 1 ( 1 2 0 1 4 ( t s ) 3 5 Γ ( 2 5 ) x ( s ) d s ) , Δ x ( 1 2 ) = J 2 ( 1 3 0 1 4 ( t s ) 2 3 Γ ( 1 3 ) x ( s ) d s + 2 3 0 1 2 ( t s ) 3 4 Γ ( 1 4 ) x ( s ) d s ) ,
(4.2)
5x(0)+4x ( 3 4 ) =2,
(4.3)

where J 1 (u)=|u|/(3+|u|), J 2 (u)=|u|/(4+|u|).

Set α=2/3, T=3/4, d 1 , 1 =1/2, d 2 , 1 =1/3, d 2 , 2 =2/3, β 1 , 1 =2/5, β 2 , 1 =1/3, β 2 , 2 =1/4, a=5, b=4 and c=2.

Since |f(t,x)f(t,y)|(1/4)|xy| and | J k (u) J k (v)|(1/3)|uv| for k=1,2, then (H1) and (H2) are satisfied with L 1 =1/4 and L 2 =1/3. We can show that

L 1 Ω+ L 2 Φ0.9581219078<1.

Hence, by Theorem 3.1, the boundary-value problem (4.1)-(4.3) has a unique solution on [0,3/4].

Example 4.2 Consider the following impulsive fractional boundary-value problem:

D 4 5 c x(t)= e t 2 ( e t + 1 ) | x ( t ) | 2 + | x ( t ) | ,t ( 0 , 2 3 ) ,t 1 4 , 1 3 ,
(4.4)
Δ x ( 1 4 ) = J 1 ( 2 5 0 1 4 ( t s ) 3 4 Γ ( 1 4 ) x ( s ) d s ) , Δ x ( 1 3 ) = J 2 ( 2 3 0 1 4 ( t s ) 3 5 Γ ( 2 5 ) x ( s ) d s + 1 3 0 1 3 ( t s ) 2 5 Γ ( 3 5 ) x ( s ) d s ) ,
(4.5)
5x(0)+4x ( 2 3 ) =5,
(4.6)

where J 1 (u)=(u/3)5, J 2 (u)=2|u|/(4+3|u|).

Set α=4/5, T=2/3, d 1 , 1 =2/5, d 2 , 1 =2/3, d 2 , 2 =1/3, β 1 , 1 =1/4, β 2 , 1 =2/5, β 2 , 2 =3/5, a=5, b=4 and c=5.

Since |f(t,x)f(t,y)|[ e t /(4( e t +1))]|xy|, | J 1 (u) J 1 (v)|(1/3)|uv| and | J 2 (u) J 2 (v)|(1/2)|uv|, then (H3) and (H4) are satisfied with ξ(t)= e t /(4( e t +1)), η 1 =1/3, η 2 =1/2, γ=3/5 and σ=2/3. We can show that

ξ Ω + η Φ 0.8454119129<1.

Hence, by Theorem 3.2, the boundary-value problem (4.4)-(4.6) has a unique solution on [0,2/3].

Example 4.3 Consider the following impulsive fractional boundary-value problem:

D 3 5 c x(t)= sin π x 2 π 2 + sin 2 π x + 1 + sin π t 2 π ,t ( 0 , 1 2 ) ,t 1 4 , 1 3 ,
(4.7)
Δ x ( 1 4 ) = J 1 ( 1 2 0 1 4 ( t s ) 3 5 Γ ( 2 5 ) x ( s ) d s ) , Δ x ( 1 3 ) = J 2 ( 1 3 0 1 4 ( t s ) 2 5 Γ ( 3 5 ) x ( s ) d s + 0 1 3 ( t s ) 2 3 Γ ( 1 3 ) x ( s ) d s ) ,
(4.8)
4x(0)+3x ( 1 2 ) =3,
(4.9)

where J 1 (u)=(sinπu)/(2 π 2 ), J 2 (u)=2u/(3π+ u 2 ).

Set α=3/5, T=1/2, d 1 , 1 =1/2, d 2 , 1 =1/3, d 2 , 2 =1, β 1 , 1 =2/5, β 2 , 1 =3/5, β 2 , 2 =1/3, a=4, b=3, c=3 and f(t,x)=((sinπx)/(2 π 2 + sin 2 πx))+((1+sinπt)/(2π)).

It is easy to see that Ω=1.054828718. Clearly,

| f ( t , x ) | = | sin π x 2 π 2 + sin 2 π x + 1 + sin π t 2 π | ( 1 + sin π t ) ( | x | + 1 2 π ) , | J 1 ( u ) | = | sin π u | 2 π 2 | u | 2 π ,

and

| J 2 (u)|=| 2 u 3 π + u 2 | 2 | u | 3 π .

Choosing p(t)=1+sinπt, ψ(|x|)=(|x|+1)/(2π) and φ(|u|)=2|u|/3π, we obtain

M 0.5659502780 + 0.5201099305 M >1

which implies that M >1.179333172. Hence, by Theorem 3.4, the boundary-value problem (4.7)-(4.9) has at least one solution on [0,1/2].

Example 4.4 Consider the following impulsive fractional boundary-value problem:

D 3 4 c x(t)= t sin π x 2 ( t + 5 ) 2 ( x 2 + 1 ) + 2 t ( t + 2 ) 2 ,t ( 0 , 4 3 ) ,t 1 4 , 2 3 , 3 4 ,
(4.10)
Δ x ( 1 4 ) = J 1 ( 1 3 0 1 4 ( t s ) 1 2 Γ ( 1 2 ) x ( s ) d s ) , Δ x ( 2 3 ) = J 2 ( 1 2 0 1 4 ( t s ) 2 3 Γ ( 1 3 ) x ( s ) d s + 1 4 0 2 3 ( t s ) 1 3 Γ ( 2 3 ) x ( s ) d s ) , Δ x ( 3 4 ) = J 3 ( 1 3 0 1 4 ( t s ) 3 4 Γ ( 1 4 ) x ( s ) d s + 2 3 0 2 3 ( t s ) 1 2 Γ ( 1 2 ) x ( s ) d s Δ x ( 3 4 ) = + 1 4 0 3 4 ( t s ) 1 4 Γ ( 3 4 ) x ( s ) d s ) ,
(4.11)
4x(0)+5x ( 4 3 ) =3,
(4.12)

where J 1 (u)=(u/(6+ u 2 ))+1, J 2 (u)=(u/(6+ sin 2 u))+(1/3), J 3 (u)=((sinπu)/(7π))+(1/2).

Set α=3/4, T=4/3, d 1 , 1 =1/3, d 2 , 1 =1/2, d 2 , 2 =1/4, d 3 , 1 =1/3, d 3 , 2 =2/3, d 3 , 3 =1/4, β 1 , 1 =1/2, β 2 , 1 =1/3, β 2 , 2 =2/3, β 3 , 1 =1/4, β 3 , 2 =1/2, β 3 , 3 =3/4, a=4, b=5 and c=3.

Since |f(t,x)|(1/6)|x|+1, | J k (x)|(1/6)|x|+1 for k=1,2,3, then (H10) and (H11) are satisfied with κ=1/6, γ=1/6, M=1 and N=1. We have

κ=0.1666666667<0.4761628182= Ω 1

and

λ=0.1666666667<0.2080746384=(1κΩ) Φ 1 .

Hence, by Theorem 3.5, the boundary value-problem (4.10)-(4.12) has at least one solution on [0,4/3].

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