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We apply the concept of measure of noncompactness to study the existence of solution of second order differential equations with initial conditions in the sequence space \(n(\phi)\).
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1 Introduction and preliminaries
In recent years, the notion of measure of noncompactness has been effectively utilized in sequence spaces for different classes of differential equations (see [4, 5, 8, 11–15]). By applying this notion, Aghajani and Pourhadi [2] investigated the infinite system of second-order differential equations in an \(\ell_{1}\)-space. Since then Mohiuddine et al. [10] and Banaś et al. [6] focused on this system in the sequence space \(\ell_{p}\).
A measure of noncompactness is a nonnegative real-valued map defined on a collection of bounded subsets of a normed (metric) space which maps the class of relatively compact sets (known as kernel) to zero, while other sets are mapped to a positive value. There are several ways to define this notion on a given space. The widely used approach is the axiomatic one, introduced in [3], which is given below.
Let \(\mathfrak{M}_{E}\) denote the family of all nonempty bounded subsets of a Banach space E and \(\mathfrak{N}_{E}\) be its subfamily consisting of all relatively compact sets. Let \(B(x,r)\) denote the closed ball centered at x with radius r and \(B_{r}=\) \(B(\theta,r)\).
We recall the following definition given in [3].
Definition 1.1
([3, Definition 3.1.3])
A mapping \(\mu \colon \mathfrak{M} _{E}\longrightarrow \mathbb{R}^{+}\) is called a measure of noncompactness (MNC for short) if
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(i)
kerμ is nonempty and a subset of \(\mathfrak{N}_{E}\).
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(ii)
\(\mu (X)\leq \mu (Y)\) for \(X\subset Y\).
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(iii)
\(\mu (\overline{X})=\mu (X)\).
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(iv)
\(\mu (\operatorname{Conv}X)=\mu (X)\).
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(v)
For all \(\lambda \in {}[ 0,1]\),
$$ \mu \bigl(\lambda X+(1-\lambda) Y\bigr)\leq \lambda \mu (X)+(1-\lambda) \mu (Y). $$ -
(vi)
If \((X_{n})_{n\in \mathbb{N}}\) is a sequence of closed sets from \(\mathfrak{M}_{E}\) satisfying
$$ X_{n+1}\subset X_{n}\quad \text{for all }n\in \mathbb{N}\quad \text{and}\quad \mu (X _{n})\rightarrow 0\quad \text{as }n\rightarrow \infty, $$then
$$ X_{\infty }=\bigcap_{n=1}^{\infty }X_{n} \neq \varnothing . $$
Definition 1.2
([5, Definition 3.1.3])
For a measure of noncompactness μ in E, the mapping \(G\colon B\subseteq E\longrightarrow E\) is said to be a \(\mu_{E}\)-contraction if there exists a constant \(0< k<1\) such that
for any bounded closed subset \(Y\subseteq B\).
Darbo [7] used the idea of measure of noncompactness to obtain a new fixed point theorem which generalizes the Banach contraction principle and assures the existence of a fixed point concerning the so-called condensing operators.
Theorem 1.1
([7])
Let ∁ be a nonempty, closed, bounded, and convex subset of a Banach space E, and let \(\mathcal{G}:\complement \mapsto \complement \) be a continuous mapping such that there exists a constant \(\theta \in {}[ 0,1)\) with the property \(\mu ( \mathcal{G}(\complement))\leq \theta \mu (\complement)\). Then \(\mathcal{G}\) has a fixed point in ∁.
The following definition was given in [1] which is a generalization of Meir–Keeler contraction (MKC) given in [9].
Definition 1.3
([1])
For an arbitrary measure of noncompactness μ on a Banach space X, we say that an operator \(\mathfrak{T}:B \mapsto B\) is a Meir–Keeler condensing operator if for any \(\epsilon >0\) there exists \(\delta >0\) such that
for any bounded subset E of B; where B is a nonempty subset of X.
Now we state the following theorem for Meir–Keeler condensing operators which will be applied in our main results.
Theorem 1.2
([1])
Let μ be an arbitrary measure of noncompactness on a Banach space X. If \(\mathfrak{T}:B\mapsto B\) is a continuous and Meir–Keeler condensing operator, then \(\mathfrak{T}\) has at least one fixed point and the set of all fixed points of \(\mathfrak{T}\) in B is compact, where B is a nonempty, bounded, closed, and convex subset of X.
2 The sequence space \(n(\phi )\)
We denote by \(\mathcal{C}\) the space of finite sets of distinct positive integers. For any \(\sigma \in \mathcal{C}\), we define \(\alpha (\sigma)=\{\alpha_{n}(\sigma)\}\) such that \(\alpha_{n}(\sigma)\) is 1 if n is in σ; and 0 elsewhere. Write
and define
Sargent [16] defined the following sequence spaces which were further studied in [11]. Write \(S(x)\) for the set of all sequences that are rearrangements of x. For \(\phi \in \Phi\),
where \(\Delta \phi_{k}=\phi_{k}-\phi_{k-1}\). Note that, for all \(n\in \mathbb{N=}\{1,2,3,\ldots\}\), \(m(\phi)=\ell_{1}\), \(n(\phi)= \ell_{\infty }\) if \(\phi_{n}=1\); and \(m(\phi)=\ell_{\infty }\), \(n(\phi)=\ell_{1}\) if \(\phi_{n}=n\).
We have the following important result.
Theorem 2.1
([12])
For any bounded subset \(\mathcal{Q}\) of \(n(\phi)\), we have
where \(\chi (Q)\) denotes the Hausdorff measure of noncompactness of the set Q which is defined by
3 Infinite system of second order differential equations in \(n( \phi )\)
We study the following infinite system:
Let \(C(I,\mathbb{R})\) be the space of all continuous real functions on the interval \(I=[a,b]\) and \(C^{2}(I,\mathbb{R})\) be the class of functions with the second continuous derivative on I. A function \(u=(u_{i})\in C^{2}(I,\mathbb{R})\) is a solution of (3.1) if and only if \(u\in C(I,\mathbb{R})\) is a solution of the system of integral equations
where \(f_{i}(t,u)\in C(I\times \mathbb{R}^{\infty },\mathbb{R})\), \(i=1, 2, 3,\dots \); and the Green’s function associated with (3.1) is given by
Now compute
Again differentiating we get
The solution of the infinite system (3.1) in the sequence space \(\ell_{1}\) was discussed by Aghajani and Pourhadi [2] by establishing a generalization of Darbo type fixed point theorem using the concept of α-admissibility function and Schauder’s fixed point theorem. Here, we determine the solvability of system (3.1) in Banach sequence spaces \(n(\phi)\). Our result is more general than that of [2].
Assume that
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(i)
The functions \(f_{i}\) are defined on the set \(I\times \mathbb{R} ^{\infty }\) and take real values. The operator f defined on the space \(I\times n(\phi)\) into \(n(\phi)\) as
$$ (t,u)\rightarrow (fu) (t)=\bigl(f_{1}\bigl(t,u(t) \bigr),f_{2}\bigl(t,u(t)\bigr),f_{3}\bigl(t,u(t)\bigr),\ldots \bigr) $$is such that the class of all functions \(((fu)(t))_{t\in I}\) is equicontinuous at every point of the space \(n(\phi)\).
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(ii)
The following inequality holds:
$$ \bigl\vert f_{n}\bigl(t,u_{1}(t),u_{2}(t),u_{3}(t), \ldots\bigr) \bigr\vert \leq g_{n}(t)+h_{n}(t) \bigl\vert u_{n}(t) \bigr\vert , $$where \(g_{n}(t)\) and \(h_{n}(t)\) are real functions defined and continuous on I such that \(\sum_{k=1}^{\infty }g_{k}(t)\Delta \phi _{k}\) converges uniformly on I and the sequence \((h_{n}(t))\) is equibounded on I.
Write
and
Theorem 3.1
Let conditions (i)–(ii) hold. Then system (3.1) has at least one solution \(u(t)=(u_{i}(t))\in n(\phi)\) for all \(t\in {}[ 0,T]\).
Proof
Let \(S(u(t))\) denote the set of all sequences that are rearrangements of \(u(t)\). If \(v(t)\in S(u(t))\), then \(\sum_{k=1}^{ \infty }\vert v_{k}(t)\vert \Delta \phi_{k}\leq M\), where M is a finite positive real number for all \(u(t)=(u_{i}(t))\in n(\phi)\) for all \(t\in I\). Using (3.2) and (ii), we have, for all \(t\in I\),
say.
Let \(u^{0}(t)=(u_{i}^{0}(t))\) where \(u_{i}^{0}(t)=0\) for all \(t\in I\).
Consider the closed ball \(\bar{B}=\bar{B}(u^{0},r_{1})\) centered at \(u^{0}\) and of radius \(r_{1}\leq r\) which is of course a nonempty, bounded, closed, and convex subset of \(n(\phi)\). Consider the operator \(\mathcal{F}=(\mathcal{F}_{i})\) on \(C(I,\bar{B})\) defined as follows. For \(t\in I\),
where \(u(t)=(u_{i}(t))\) and \(u_{i}(t)\in C(I,\mathbb{R})\).
We have \((\mathcal{F}u)(t)=\{(\mathcal{F}_{i}u)(t)\}\in n(\phi)\) for each \(t\in I\). Since \((f_{i}(t,u(t)))\in n(\phi)\) for each \(t\in I\), we have
Also since \((\mathcal{F}_{i}u)(t)\) satisfies the boundary conditions, we have
and
Since \(\Vert (\mathcal{F}u)(t)-u^{0}(t)\Vert _{n(\phi)}\leq R\), \(\mathcal{F}\) is an operator on B̄.
The operator \(\mathcal{F}\) is continuous on \(C(I,\bar{B})\) by assumption (i). Now, we shall show that \(\mathcal{F}\) is a Meir–Keeler condensing operator. For \(\varepsilon >0\), we have to find \(\delta >0\) such that \(\varepsilon \leq \chi (\bar{B})<\varepsilon +\delta \Rightarrow \chi (\mathcal{F}\bar{B})<\varepsilon\). Now
Hence \(\chi (\mathcal{F}\bar{B})<\frac{HT ^{2}}{8}\chi ( \bar{B})<\varepsilon \Rightarrow \chi (\bar{B})<\frac{8\varepsilon }{H T ^{2}}\).
Taking \(\delta =\frac{\varepsilon }{HT ^{2}}(8-HT ^{2})\), we get \(\varepsilon \leq \chi (\bar{B})<\varepsilon +\delta\). Therefore, \(\mathcal{F}\) is a Meir–Keeler condensing operator defined on the set \(\bar{B}\subset n(\phi)\). So \(\mathcal{F}\) satisfies all the conditions of Theorem 1.2 which implies that \(\mathcal{F}\) has a fixed point in B̄, which is a required solution of system (3.1). □
Remark 3.1
For \(\phi_{n}=n\), for all \(n\in \mathbb{N}\), the above result is reduced to that of Aghajani and Pourhadi [2] but our proof is quite different.
4 Example
In order to illustrate the above result, we provide the following example.
Example 4.1
Let us consider the system of second order differential equations
Here \(f_{i}(t,u_{1}(t),u_{2}(t),u_{3}(t),\ldots)=\frac{\sqrt[j]{t}}{j ^{4}}+\sum_{i=j}^{\infty }\frac{t\cos (t)u_{i}(t)}{i^{4}}\), and so (4.1) is a special case of the considered system (3.1). Clearly \(\frac{ \sqrt[j]{t}}{j^{4}}\) and \(\sum_{i=j}^{\infty } \frac{t\cos (t)u_{i}(t)}{i4}\) are continuous on I for each \(n\in \mathbb{N}\).
Notice that, for any \(t\in I=[0,T]\), \((f_{k}(t,u(t)))\in n(\phi)\) if \((u_{k}(t))\in n(\phi)\). Moreover, we have
We will show that assumption (i) is satisfied. Let us fix \(\epsilon >0\) arbitrarily and \(u(t)=(u_{k}(t))\in n(\phi)\). Then, taking \(v(t)=(v_{k}(t))\in n(\phi)\) with \(\|u(t)-v(t)\|\leq \delta (\epsilon)\):= \(\frac{\epsilon }{T}\), we have
which implies continuity as in assumption (i). Now, we show that assumption (ii) is satisfied.
The function \(g_{j}(t)=\frac{\sqrt{t}}{j^{4}}\) is continuous and \(\sum_{j\geq 1}g_{j}(t)\) converges uniformly to \(\frac{\sqrt{t}\pi ^{4}}{90}\), also \(h_{j}(t)=\frac{t\pi^{4}}{90}\) is continuous and the sequence \((h_{j}(t))\) is equibounded on I by \(H=\frac{T\pi^{4}}{80}\). Also \(\frac{HT^{2}}{8}<1\) is satisfied by taking \(T=1.2\), which gives \(H\approx 1.9739\) and \(G\approx 1.9739\).
Thus, from Theorem 3.1, for a suitable value of \(r_{1}\) (as discussed in Theorem 3.1) the operator \(\mathcal{F}\) as defined in Theorem 3.1 on \(\bar{B}(u^{0},r_{1})\) has a fixed point \(u(t)=((u_{i}(t))\in n(\phi)\), which is a solution of system (4.1).
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Alotaibi, A., Mursaleen, M. & Alamri, B.A.S. Solvability of second order linear differential equations in the sequence space \(n(\phi)\). Adv Differ Equ 2018, 377 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13662-018-1810-9
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