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On the novel existence results of solutions for a class of fractional boundary value problems on the cyclohexane graph
Journal of Inequalities and Applications volume 2022, Article number: 5 (2022)
Abstract
A branch of mathematical science known as chemical graph theory investigates the implications of connectedness in chemical networks. A few researchers have looked at the solutions of fractional differential equations using the concept of star graphs. Their decision to use star graphs was based on the assumption that their method requires a common point linked to other nodes but not to each other. Our goal is to broaden the scope of the method by defining the idea of a cyclohexane graph, which is a cycloalkane with the molecular formula \(C_{6}H_{12}\) and CAS number 110-82-7. It consists of a ring of six carbon atoms, each bonded with two hydrogen atoms above and below the plane with multiple junction nodes. This article examines the existence of fractional boundary value problem’ solutions on such graphs in the sense of the Caputo fractional derivative by using the well-known fixed point theorems. In addition, an example is given to support our key findings.
1 Introduction
In fractional differential equations, there has been a lot of theoretical and practical development in recent years (for detail, see [1–4]). Most articles and books on fractional calculus in the setting of special functions concentrate on the solvability of linear fractional differential equations [5–13]. Several new papers dealing with nonlinear fractional differential equations and their solutions using methods such as the stability analysis, Leray–Schauder theorem, and fixed point analysis have recently been published [14–19].
Chemical graph theory is one of the fields of mathematics that examines the consequences of a chemical network’s connectivity. A chemical graph may represent any actual or abstract chemical system (i.e., molecular transformations in a chemical reaction). Chemical graph theory, in other words, is focused on every element of graph theory’s application to chemistry. Furthermore, in chemical graph theory, the word “chemical” is used to highlight that, unlike graph theory, one may depend on scientific observation of many ideas and theorems rather than rigorous mathematical proofs, which is a crucial difference.
Lumer’s research [20] was the first to look at differential equation theory applied to graphs. By altering specified local operators, he investigated extended equations of evolution on ramification spaces. In 1989, using a geometric network, Zavgorodnij [21] studied linear differential equations, with the existence of suggested boundary value problem solutions arranged at the interior vertices of the network. Gordeziani et al., on the other hand, used the double-sweep technique to find the numerical solutions for ordinary differential equations on graphs, which they found to be more efficient (see [22]).
However, just a few studies on fractional boundary value problems with graphs have shown the existence of solutions using specific fixed point techniques (see [23, 24]). The concept of a star graph was used by the authors of these works, namely \(\mathcal{E^{\star }}=\mathcal{X^{\star }}(\mathcal{E^{\star }}) \cup \mathcal{Y^{\star }}(\mathcal{E^{\star }})\), where \(\mathcal{X^{\star }}(\mathcal{E^{\star }})=\{\tilde{p}_{0},\tilde{p}_{1}, \tilde{p}_{2}\}\) and \(\mathcal{Y^{\star }}(\mathcal{E^{\star }})= \{ \tilde{r}_{1}= \overrightarrow{\tilde{p}_{1}\tilde{p}_{0}},\tilde{r}_{2}=\overrightarrow{\tilde{p}_{2}\tilde{p}_{0}} \} \) are sets of vertices and edges, respectively, such that \(\tilde{p}_{0}\) is the junction node and \(\tilde{r}_{\ell }=\overrightarrow{\tilde{p}_{\ell }\tilde{p}_{0}}\) is the edge connecting nodes \(\tilde{p}_{\ell }\) to \(\tilde{p}_{0}\) having length \(\tilde{\varrho }_{\ell }= \vert \overrightarrow{\tilde{p}_{\ell }\tilde{p}_{0}} \vert \) for \(\ell =1,2\) (see Fig. 1).
After establishing a local coordinate system with the origin at the vertices \(\tilde{r}_{1}\) and \(\tilde{r}_{2}\), the coordinate \(s \in ( 0,\tilde{\varrho }_{\ell } ) \) is investigated on each edge \(\tilde{r}_{\ell }=\overrightarrow{\tilde{p}_{\ell }\tilde{p}_{0}}\) (as seen in Fig. 1). Graef et al. [23] suggested the subsequent system of nonlinear fractional differential equations defined on each edge \(\tilde{r}_{\ell }=\overrightarrow{\tilde{p}_{\ell }\tilde{p}_{0}}\) and applied the notable fixed point theorems to prove the existence of solutions of the following problem:
where \(j \in (1,2]\), \(k \in (0,j )\), are continuous functions with \(h_{\ell }(s )\neq 0\) on \([0,\tilde{\varrho }_{k}]\) and also are continuous functions. Also, \({}^{\mathrm{RL}}\mathfrak{D}^{j}\) and \({}^{\mathrm{RL}}\mathfrak{D}^{k}\) represent Riemann–Liouville fractional derivatives of orders j and k, respectively.
In [24], Mehandiratta et al. broaden the above work to \((u+1)\) vertices with
where the length of each \(\tilde{r}_{\ell }\) joining vertices \(\tilde{p}_{\ell }\) to \(\tilde{p}_{0}\) (\(\ell =1,2,\dots ,u\)) is \(\tilde{\varrho }_{\ell }= \vert \overrightarrow{\tilde{p}_{\ell }\tilde{p}_{0}} \vert \). They investigated the solutions of the following problem:
where \(j \in (1,2]\), \(k\in (0,j -1]\), are continuous functions and \(\mathfrak{D}^{\chi }\) denotes the Caputo fractional derivative of order \(\chi \in \{j ,k\}\), and used transformations \(\tilde{\theta }=\frac{s }{\tilde{\varrho }_{\ell }}\in {}[ 0,1]\) and \(\sigma (\tilde{\theta })=w(s )=w ( \tilde{\varrho }_{\ell }\tilde{\theta } ) \) for \(s \in {}[ 0,\tilde{\varrho }_{\ell }]\) to prove the following relation:
By using (1.3) on the interval \([0,1]\), we can write (1.1) as
where \(\sigma _{\ell }(\tilde{\theta })=w_{\ell }(\tilde{\varrho }_{\ell } \tilde{\theta })\) and \(\mathcal{H} _{k}(\tilde{\theta },z,w)=\mathcal{H} _{\ell }( \tilde{\varrho }_{\ell }\tilde{\theta },z,w)\) for \(\ell =1,2,\dots ,u\).
Recently, Mophou et al. [25] investigated the solution of the following fractional Sturm–Liouville boundary value problems on a star graph:
where and \(\mathfrak{D}^{j}_{b_{\ell }^{-1}}\), \(\ell = 1,2, \dots , n\) stand, respectively, for the left Riemann–Liouville and the right Caputo fractional derivative of order \(j \in (0, 1)\); \(I^{j}_{a^{+}}\) is the Riemann–Liouville fractional integral of order j. The real functions \(\beta ^{\ell }\) and \(q^{\ell }\) are defined on \([a, b_{\ell }]\) (\(\ell = 1,2,\dots , n\)). The function \(\mathcal{H} ^{\ell }\) belongs to \(L^{2}(a, b_{\ell })\), \(\ell = 1,2,\dots , n\), and the controls \(v_{\ell }\), \(\ell = 1,2,\dots , n\) are real variables.
For the recent research in this area, we refer to [26–29] and the references therein.
In this work, we utilized the concept of the cyclohexane graph (see Fig. 2) to extend the idea of the above fractional boundary value problems to a new problem that is more generic than star graphs.
The method used in [23] and [24] for identifying the origin at boundary nodes other than the junction node \(\tilde{p}_{0}\) would be insufficient since a cyclohexane graph has several junction points. As a result, we use another procedure in which we label the vertices of the preceding graph with 0 or 1 having edge length \(\tilde{\varrho }_{\ell }=1\) (see Fig. 3).
Here, we examine the existence of solutions to the following problem:
where \(\eta _{\kappa }\) (\(\kappa = 1,2,3\)) are real constants with \(\eta _{\kappa } \neq 0\), \(\mathfrak{D}^{j}\), \(\mathfrak{D}^{j-1}\), and \(\mathfrak{D}^{k}\) are the Caputo fractional derivative of orders \(j\in ( 1,2 ]\), \(j-1 \in (0,1]\), and \(k \in (0, 1)\), respectively. Also, is a given continuously differentiable function for \(\ell =18\), where ℓ is the number of edges of the graph representation of cyclohexane compound with \(\vert \tilde{r}_{k}\vert =1\). Also, \(\mathcal{D}^{2m}\) is the sequential fractional derivative discussed in [2]
Our goal is to use the relevant fixed point theorems to prove the existence of solutions to the proposed problem (1.6). Finally, an example is given to highlight the significance of our results in the particular literature.
2 Preliminaries
In the next sections, the subsequent outcomes will be required.
Definition 2.1
([2])
The Caputo fractional derivative of order \(j >0\) for a function \(\mathcal{H} \in C^{\chi }[0,+\infty )\) is defined as
where \([j ]\) represents the integer part of j.
Lemma 2.2
For \(p >0\), the general solution of the fractional differential equation \(\mathfrak{D}^{j}w(s )=0\) is given by
where , \(k=0,1,\dots ,n-1\) (\(n-1< j < n\), \(n=[j ]+1\)).
Also,
for some , \(k=0,1,\dots ,n-1\) (\(n-1< j < n\), \(n=[j ]+1\)).
Lemma 2.3
Suppose that real-valued functions \(\Upsilon _{1},\Upsilon _{2}, \dots ,\Upsilon _{18}\) are continuous on the closed interval \([0,1]\). Then \(w_{\ell }^{\star }\) is a solution for boundary value problem satisfying the boundary conditions
if and only if \(w_{\ell }^{\star }\) is a solution for the following fractional integral equation:
where
Proof
Suppose that \(w^{\star }_{\ell }\) is a solution of (2.1), where \(\ell =1,2,\dots ,18\). Then there exist constants such that
Using the boundary conditions for (2.1), we have
Substituting the values of \(z_{0}^{(\ell )}\) and \(z_{1}^{(\ell )}\) into (2.3), we obtain the solution (2.2). With regard to the converse statement, it is self-evident that \(w^{\star }_{\ell }\) is a solution for (2.1) when it is a solution for an integral equation (2.3). □
The fixed point theorems of Schaefer and Krasnoselskii are now presented.
Theorem 2.4
([30])
If \(\mathcal{T}\) is a completely continuous, that is, \(\mathcal{T}\) is continuous and totally bounded, self-operator on a Banach space \(\mathcal{C}\), then either \(\{ a \in \mathcal{C} : a = b \mathcal{T} a \textit{ for some } b \in (0,1) \} \) is unbounded or \(\mathcal{T} \) has a fixed point.
Theorem 2.5
([30])
Let \(\mathcal{O}\) be a closed convex and nonempty subset of a Banach space \(\mathcal{C}\) and \(\mathcal{T} _{1},\mathcal{T} _{2}:\mathcal{O} \rightarrow \mathcal{C}\) be two operators satisfying the following conditions:
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1.
\(\mathcal{T} _{1}k+\mathcal{T} _{2}k^{\prime }\in \mathcal{O}\) for all \(k,k^{\prime }\in \mathcal{O} \);
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2.
\(\mathcal{T} _{1}\) is compact and continuous on \(\mathcal{O}\);
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3.
\(\mathcal{T} _{2}\) is a Banach contraction mapping on \(\mathcal{O}\), that is, there is \(\delta \in [0,1)\) such that
$$ \bigl\Vert \mathcal{T} _{2}k-\mathcal{T} _{2}k^{\prime } \bigr\Vert \leq \delta \bigl\Vert k-k^{ \prime } \bigr\Vert $$
for all \(k,k^{\prime }\in \mathcal{O}\). Then \(\mathcal{T} _{1}+\mathcal{T} _{2}\) has a fixed point.
3 Main results
We define the Banach space \(\mathcal{C}_{\ell }=\{w_{\ell }:w_{\ell },\mathfrak{D}^{k} w_{\ell },w_{ \ell }^{\prime } \in C[0,1]\}\) with the norm
for \(\ell =1,2,\dots ,18\). It is obvious that the product space \(\mathcal{C}=\mathcal{C}_{1}\times \mathcal{C}_{2}\times \cdots \times \mathcal{C}_{18}\) is a Banach space, where the norm is defined by
In order to apply Lemma 2.3, we introduce the operator \(\mathcal{T} \): \(\mathcal{C}\rightarrow \mathcal{C}\) by
where
for all \(s \in {}[ 0,1]\) and \(w_{\ell }\in \mathcal{C}_{\ell }\).
To simplify calculations, we shall use the following notation:
Theorem 3.1
Consider the fractional boundary value problem (1.6). Suppose that are continuous functions and there exist constants \(\Xi _{\ell }>0\) for all \(\ell =1,2,\dots ,18\) such that \(\vert \mathcal{H} _{\ell }(s ,w, \tilde{w}, \tilde{\tilde{w}}) \vert \leq \Xi _{\ell } \) for all , \(s \in {}[ 0,1]\). Then problem (1.6) has a solution.
Proof
It is obvious from the implication of (3.2) that the fixed points of \(\mathcal{T} \) defined by (3.1) exist if and only if (1.6) has a solution. To prove this, we first show that \(\mathcal{T} \) is completely continuous.
As \(\mathcal{H} _{1},\mathcal{H} _{2},\dots ,\mathcal{H} _{18}\) are continuous, \(\mathcal{T} :\mathcal{C}\rightarrow \mathcal{C}\) is continuous, too. Let \(\mathcal{O} \in \mathcal{C}\) be a bounded set and \(w=(w_{1},w_{2},\dots ,w_{18})\in \mathcal{C}\), so that for each \(s \in {}[ 0,1]\) we have
where \(\mathcal{F}_{0}^{\ast }\) is given in (3.5). Also,
and
for all \(s \in {}[ 0,1]\), where \(\mathcal{F}_{1}^{\ast }\), \(\mathcal{F}_{2}^{\ast }\) are defined in (3.6) and (3.7), respectively. Therefore
Hence,
which shows that \(\mathcal{T} \) is uniformly bounded.
Now, we have to prove that \(\mathcal{T} \) is equicontinuous. As for this purpose, let \(w=(w_{1},w_{2},\dots , w_{18})\in \mathcal{O}\) and \(s _{1},s _{2}\in {}[ 0,1]\) with \(s _{1}< s _{2}\). Then, we have
It is clear that if \(s _{1}\rightarrow s _{2}\) then, independently, the right-hand side of the above expression converges to zero. Also,
As a result \(\Vert (\mathcal{T} w)(s _{2})-(\mathcal{T} w)(s _{1}) \Vert _{\mathcal{C}}\rightarrow 0\) as \(s _{1}\rightarrow s _{2}\). This proves that \(\mathcal{T} \) is equicontinuous on \(\mathcal{C}=\mathcal{C}_{1}\times \mathcal{C}_{2}\times \cdots \times \mathcal{C}_{18}\). Now, the Arzela–Ascoli theorem implies the complete continuity of the operator.
Now, we define a subset Θ of \(\mathcal{C}\) by
Here, we shall show that Θ is bounded. For this, let \((w_{1},w_{2},\dots ,w_{18})\in \Theta \). Then, we can write \((w_{1},w_{2},\dots ,w_{18})=b \mathcal{T} (w_{1},w_{2},\dots ,w_{18}) \), and so \(w_{\ell }(s )=b \mathcal{T} _{\ell }(w_{1},w_{2},\dots ,w_{18}) \), for all \(s \in {}[ 0,1]\) and \(\ell =1,2,\dots ,18\). Thus,
By similar computations, we have \(\vert \mathfrak{D}^{k} w_{\ell }(s ) \vert \leq b \Xi _{ \ell }\mathcal{F}_{1}^{\ast }\), \(\vert w_{\ell }^{\prime }(s ) \vert \leq b \Xi _{\ell } \mathcal{F}_{2}^{\ast } \), where \(\mathcal{F}_{0}^{\ast },\dots ,\mathcal{F}_{2}^{\ast }\) are given in (3.5)–(3.7). Hence
which shows the boundedness of Θ. Now, using Theorem 2.4 and Lemma 2.3, we can claim that \(\mathcal{T} \) has a fixed point in \(\mathcal{C}\). This demonstrates that the fractional boundary value problem (1.6) does indeed have a solution. □
We shall now examine the solution of the fractional boundary value problem (1.6) by applying various conditions.
Theorem 3.2
Consider the fractional boundary value problem (1.6). Assume that are continuous functions and there exist bounded continuous functions , \(\mathcal{W} _{1},\mathcal{W} _{2},\dots , \mathcal{W} _{18}:[0,1]\rightarrow [0,\infty ) \) and nondecreasing continuous functions \(\mathcal{P} _{1},\mathcal{P} _{2},\dots ,\mathcal{P}_{18}:[0,1] \rightarrow [0,\infty ) \) such that
and
for all \(s \in {}[ 0,1]\), and \(\ell =1,2,\dots ,18\). If
then (1.6) has a solution, where \(\Vert \mathcal{S} _{ \ell } \Vert =\sup_{s \in {}[ 0,1]} \vert \mathcal{S} _{ \ell }(s ) \vert \) and the constants \(\mathcal{V} _{0}^{\ast },\dots ,\mathcal{V} _{2}^{\ast }\) are given in (3.8)–(3.10), respectively.
Proof
First, we put \(\Vert \mathcal{W} _{\ell } \Vert =\sup_{s \in {}[ 0,1]} \vert \mathcal{W} _{\ell }(s ) \vert \) and choose a suitable real constant \(\kappa _{\ell }\) such that
where \(\mathcal{F}_{0}^{\ast },\dots ,\mathcal{F}_{2}^{\ast }\) are given in (3.5)–(3.7). We define a set
where \(\kappa _{\ell }\) is defined in (3.11). It is obvious that \(\mathcal{O}_{\kappa _{\ell }}\) is a nonempty closed bounded and convex subset of \(\mathcal{C}=\mathcal{C} _{1}\times \mathcal{C}_{2}\times \cdots \times \mathcal{C}_{18}\). Now, we define \(\mathcal{T} _{1}\) and \(\mathcal{T} _{2}\) on \(\mathcal{O}_{\kappa _{\ell }}\) by
where
and
for all \(s \in {}[ 0,1]\) and \(w= (w_{1},w_{2},\dots ,w_{18}) \in \mathcal{O}_{\kappa _{\ell }}\). Let
Now, for every \(\tilde{w}=(\tilde{w}_{1},\tilde{w}_{2},\dots ,\tilde{w}_{18})\), \(w=(w_{1},w_{2}, \dots ,w_{18})\in \mathcal{O}_{\kappa _{\ell }}\), we have
and
By using similar computations, we have
This yields
and so \(\mathcal{T} _{1} \tilde{w} +\mathcal{T} _{2} w\in \mathcal{O}_{ \kappa _{\ell }}\). Also, the continuity of \(\mathcal{H} _{\ell }\) follows from the continuity of the operator \(\mathcal{T} _{1}\).
Now, we shall show that \(\mathcal{T} _{1}\) is uniformly bounded. As for this purpose, we have
for all \(w\in \mathcal{O}_{\kappa _{\ell }}\). Also,
and
for all \(w \in \mathcal{O}_{\kappa _{\ell }}\). Thus,
which shows that \(\mathcal{T} _{1}\) is uniformly bounded on \(\mathcal{O}_{\kappa _{\ell }}\).
Now, we shall prove that \(\mathcal{T} _{1}\) is compact on \(\mathcal{O}_{\kappa _{\ell }}\). For this, let \(s _{1},s _{2}\in {}[ 0,1]\) with \(s _{1}< s _{2}\). Then, we have
Moreover, \(\vert ( \mathcal{T} _{1}^{(\ell )}w ) (s _{2})- ( \mathcal{T} _{1}^{(\ell )} w ) (s _{1}) \vert \rightarrow 0\) as \(s _{1}\rightarrow s _{2}\). Also, we have
Hence, \(\Vert (\mathcal{T} _{1}w)(s_{2})- (\mathcal{T} _{1}w)(s _{1}) \Vert _{\mathcal{C}}\) converges to zero as \(s _{1}\rightarrow s _{2}\). Thus, \(\mathcal{T} _{1}\) is equicontinuous and so \(\mathcal{T} _{1}\) is relatively compact operator on \(\mathcal{O}_{\kappa _{\ell }}\). Now, by Arzela–Ascoli theorem, we obtain that \(\mathcal{T} _{1}\) is compact on \(\mathcal{O}_{\kappa _{\ell }}\).
Lastly, we need to prove that \(\mathcal{T} _{2}\) is a contraction. For this, let \(\tilde{w},w\in \mathcal{O}_{\kappa _{\ell }}\). Thus, we have
for each \(\ell = 1, 2, \dots , 18 \), where \(\mathcal{V} _{0}^{\ast }\) is given in (3.8). Also, by similar computations, we have
where \(\mathcal{V} _{1}^{\ast }\) and \(\mathcal{V} _{2}^{\ast }\) are given in (3.9) and (3.10), respectively. Thus, we have
and so \(\Vert \mathcal{T} _{2} \tilde{w}-\mathcal{T} _{2}w \Vert _{\mathcal{C}}\leq \mathcal{F} \Vert \tilde{w}-w \Vert _{\mathcal{C}} \). As \(\mathcal{F}<1 \), which means that \(\mathcal{T} _{2}\) is a contraction on \(\mathcal{O}_{\kappa _{\ell }}\). As a result of Theorem 2.5, we infer that \(\mathcal{T} \) contains a fixed point that is a solution to the fractional boundary value problem (1.6). □
To show the significance of our results, we present the following example.
Example 3.3
Consider the following system of fractional differential equations:
with boundary conditions
where \(j =1.7\), \(k=0.04\), \(\eta _{1}=\frac{3}{2}\), \(\eta _{2}=\frac{7}{4}\), \(\eta _{3}= \frac{17}{6}\), and \(\mathfrak{D}^{j}\), \(\mathfrak{D}^{k}\) serve as the Caputo fractional derivative of orders j and k, respectively.
Let are continuous functions defined by
Let . Then, we have
Here,
Let be identity functions. Then, we obtain
where the continuous function are defined by
Furthermore, \(\mathcal{V} _{0}^{\ast }\simeq 5.642\), \(\mathcal{V} _{1}^{\ast } \simeq 4.084\), and \(\mathcal{V} _{2}^{\ast }\simeq 4.019\), thus
Hence by Theorem 3.2, the proposed problem (3.13)–(3.14) has a solution.
4 Conclusion
The chemical graph theory is a versatile subject that uses practical and theoretical methods to study the molecular structure of a chemical substance as a graph, with specific mathematical challenges in consideration. In recent decades, the rapid development of this field has given us numerous groundbreaking and distinctive ideas and methods for such research. In this article, we used the framework of a cyclohexane graph to illustrate the fractional boundary value problem in the sense of the Caputo fractional derivative. The Schaefer and Krasnoselskii fixed point theorems were used to examine the existence of solutions to the suggested problem. Our method is easy to implement and may be used on a wide range of graphs, including chordal bipartite graphs, which have many applications in computer networking and biology.
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The research of JJN has been partially supported by the Agencia Estatal de Investigacion (AEI) of Spain, co-financed by the European Fund for Regional Development (FEDER), project MTM2016-75140-P; and by Xunta de Galicia under grant ED431C 2019/02.
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Ali, W., Turab, A. & Nieto, J.J. On the novel existence results of solutions for a class of fractional boundary value problems on the cyclohexane graph. J Inequal Appl 2022, 5 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13660-021-02742-4
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