Because of its wide applicability in biology, medicine and in more and more fields, the theory of fractional differential equations(FDEs) has recently been attracting increasing interest, see for instance1‒8 and references therein. Impulsive differential equations have played an important role in modelling phenomena, especially in describing dynamics of populations subject to abrupt changes as well as other phenomena such as harvesting, diseases, and so forth, some authors have used impulsive differential systems to describe the model since the last century. For the basic theory on impulsive differential equations, the reader can refer to the books9‒12 and the papers.1,13‒16 In addition, some modelling is done via impulsive functional differential equations when these processes involve hereditary phenomena such as biological and social macrosystems. For fractional functional differential equations, the initial value problem, for a class of nonlinear fractional functional differential equations is discussed. For more details, see.17‒24 Motivated by the papers,25,26 the aim of this note is to discuss the existence and uniqueness of solutions of Katugampola-type FDEs with delay and impulses.
Consider the Katugampola-type FDEs with delay and impulse of the form,
(1)
where is the generalized fractional derivative in Caputo sense, and are given functions satisfying some assumptions that will be specified later. and represent the right and left limits of at respectively, and they satisfy that . If , then for any , define by for , here represents the history of the state from time to present time and .
The rest of this paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, we give some notations and recall some concepts and preliminary results. In Section 3, the existence and uniqueness of the problem(1) are obtained by successive approximation method. In Section 4, an example is given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the main results.
In this section, we recollect several definitions of fractional derivatives and integals from the papers27‒30
Definition The fractional (arbitrary) order integral of the function
of order is defined by
(2)
where
is the gamma function.
Definition For a function given on the interval , the Caputo fractional order derivative of , is defined by
(3)
where
.
Definition 4.3 The generalized left-sided fractional integral of order is defined by
(4)
for
, if the integral exists.
Definition Thegeneralized fractional derivative, corresponding to the generalized fractional integral (4), is defined for
, by
(5)
if the integral exists.
Definition The Caputo-type generalized fractional derivative,
is defined via the above generalized fractional derivative (5) as follows
(6)
where
.
Definition The generalized fractional derivative in Caputo sense, corresponding to the generalized fractional integral in Caputo sense (6), is defined for
, by
(7)
Remark In Caputo sense, the Katugampola fractional derivative operator
is a left inverse of the integral operator
but in general is not a right inverse,
and the following holds
(8)
For readers’ understanding, we introduce the following notations for the following lemma and theorem.
Let
We denote exist and . Obviously,is a Banach space with the norm
Lemma 4.8 Assume that A function is a solution of the initial value problem
(9)
if and only if
satisfies the following integral equation
(10)
Proof. Assume that
satisfies (9). One can see, from Remark 2.7 and
that
In view of
we get that
It follows that, for
In consequence, we can see, by means of
that
which implies that for
Repeating the above process, the solution
for
can be written as
Conversely, if
is a solution of (10), one can obtain by a direct computation, that
and
where
and
This completes the proof.
Initially, set
For each,
,we denote by
the function defined by
(11)
If
is a solution of (1), then
can be decomposed as
for
which implies that
for
where
(12)
Therefore, the problem (1) can be transformed into the following fixed point problem of the operator
(13)
Now, let us present our main results.
Theorem For the functions
and
, assume the following conditions hold
• There exists a continuous function
satisfying
• There exists a constant
such that
where
• There exists a constant
such that
, where
is defined in (12).
Proof
To complete the proof, we shall use the method of successive approximations. Define a sequence of functions
as follows:
(14)
Since
it is easy to see from(11) that
for
Thus we have,
it follows that
Furthermore,
(15)
which implies that
with
Note that for any
we have
(16)
for sufficiently large numbers
it follows from the above inequalities with
that
Thus,
is a Cauchy sequence in
Since
is a complete Banach space, then
for some
which means that
is uniformly convergent to
with respect to
In what follows, we shall show that
is a solution of the equation (1). Observe that
Since
as
for any
there exists a sufficiently large number
such that for all
we have
Therefore,
(17)
(18)
and
(19)
In consequence, we can see that for a sufficiently large number
Thus, in view of the convergence of the two previous and (17)-??, one obtains that
, which implies that
is a solution of (1).
Finally, we prove the uniqueness of the solution. Assume that
are two solutions of (1). Note that
According to the conditions
, the uniqueness of the problem (1) follows immediately, which completes the proof.
Consider the following Katugampola-type fractional impulsive differential equation with delay of the form
(20)
Let us take,
is a non-negative constant.
for
and
Set
for
Now, we can see that
where
and
so the condition
is satisfied.
On the other hand, we get that
which satisfies the condition
of Theorem 3.1 with
By a direct computation, we obtain that
and
As a result, the equations in (20) satisfy all the hypotheses in Theorem 3.1 which guarantees that (20) has a unique solution.