A class of Hilfer fractional stochastic differential equations and optimal controls
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Abstract
In this paper, we investigate a class of Hilfer fractional stochastic differential equations with nonlocal conditions. We first study the existence of mild solutions of these equations by means of stochastic analysis theory, fractional calculations, and operator semigroup theory. Further, the existence of optimal pairs for the corresponding Lagrange control systems is investigated. Finally, an example is presented to illustrate our obtained results.
Keywords
Optimal control Hilfer fractional derivative Fractional stochastic differential equationsMSC
26A33 60H10 34A08 93E201 Introduction
In the last decades, fractional calculus has attracted considerable attention. It has been widely applied in many areas such as fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, and viscoelastic theory [1, 2]. The nonlocal property of fractional derivative makes fractional calculus being used in such areas and better results have been obtained. That is, the next state of a system depends not only on its current state but also on all of its historical states. Note that the theory of fractional differential equations (FDEs) is one of the important branches of fractional calculus. In recent years, FDEs in infinite dimensional spaces have been studied extensively since they are abstract formulations for many problems arising from economics, mechanics, and physics. Many researchers focused on the existence of mild solutions of FDEs. In [3], Zhou et al. studied the existence of mild solutions for FDEs with Caputo fractional derivative. By applying the Laplace transform and probability density function, they gave a suitable definition of mild solution. Using the same method, Zhou et al. [4] gave a definition of mild solution for FDEs with Riemann–Liouville fractional derivative. On the other hand, Hilfer [5] proposed a generalized Riemann–Liouville fractional derivative, Hilfer fractional derivative, which includes Riemann–Liouville fractional derivative and Caputo fractional derivative. Hilfer fractional derivative is performed, for example, in the theoretical simulation of dielectric relaxation in glass forming materials. Inspired by [3, 4], Gu et al. [6] gave a suitable definition of mild solution for FDEs with Hilfer fractional derivative. Many authors subsequently studied the Hilfer FDEs in infinite dimensional spaces. For more details on the existence of mild solutions for FDEs, see [7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14] and the references therein.
The optimal control is one of the important concepts in control theory and plays a vital role in control systems. For an optimal control problem, the minimization of a criterion function of the states and control inputs of the system over a set of admissible control functions are necessary. The system is subject to constrained dynamics and control variables, among which additional constraints such as final time constraints can be considered. The optimal control theory has been successfully applied in biology, engineering, economy, physics, etc. (see [15]). In recent years, many efforts have been made to investigated the existence of optimal controls for various types of nonlinear FDEs in infinite dimensional spaces. Wang and Zhou [16] considered the existence of mild solutions for a class of FDEs and optimal controls in the α-norm. Guo [17] obtained a second order necessary optimality condition for a class of fractional optimal control problems. Kumar [18] established sufficient conditions for fractional optimal control of system with fixed delay. Zhu [19] studied optimal controls for Riemann–Liouville FDEs without Lipschitz assumption.
On the other hand, the deterministic models often fluctuate due to noise or stochastic perturbation, so it is reasonable and practical to import the stochastic effects into the investigation of FDEs. Meanwhile, the existence of mild solutions and optimal controls for fractional stochastic differential equations (FSDEs) have received great interest of researchers. More precisely, Wang [20] investigated the mild solutions of a class of FSDEs. By constructing Picard type approximate sequences, Li [21] studied the existence and uniqueness of mild solutions for a class of FSDEs with delay driven by fractional Brownian motion. Ahmed et al. [22] established the existence of mild solutions of Hilfer FSDEs with nonlocal conditions. Yan [23] studied optimal control problems for a class of FSDEs of order \(\alpha\in(1,2]\). Balasubramaniam [24] dealt with the solvability and optimal controls for impulsive FSDEs via resolvent operators. Rihan et al. [25] studied the existence of solutions and optimal control of FSDEs with Hilfer fractional derivative and Poisson jumps. For more details, see [26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31] and the references therein.
An outline of this paper is given as follows. Section 2 introduces some notations and preliminary facts. In Sect. 3, the existence and uniqueness of mild solutions for system (1) are established. Optimal control results are proved in Sect. 4. Section 5 presents an example. Finally, a conclusion is given in Sect. 6.
2 Preliminaries
Some preliminary facts are presented in this section, which is necessary for this paper. For more details of this section, see [1, 2, 5, 6].
For brevity, let us take \(\mathscr{C}=C_{1-\alpha}(J,L^{2}(\Omega,X))\). The space \(\mathscr{C}\) equipped with the norm \(\|x\|_{\mathscr {C}}=(\sup_{t\in J}{E\|t^{1-\alpha}x(t)\|^{2}})^{\frac{1}{2}}\) is a Banach space.
Definition 1
([1])
Definition 2
([1])
Definition 3
([1])
Definition 4
([5])
Remark 1
([5])
- (i)
For \(\nu=0\), \(\mu\in(0,1)\), the Hilfer fractional derivative corresponds to the classical Riemann–Liouville fractional derivative: \(D^{0,\mu}_{0^{+}}f(t)=\frac{d}{dt}I^{1-\mu}_{0^{+}}f(t)={}^{L}D^{\mu }_{0^{+}}f(t)\).
- (ii)
For \(\nu=1\), \(\mu\in(0,1)\), the Hilfer fractional derivative corresponds to the classical Caputo fractional derivative: \(D^{1,\mu}_{0^{+}}f(t)=I^{1-\mu}_{0^{+}}\frac{d}{dt}f(t)={}^{C}D^{\mu }_{0^{+}}f(t)\).
Motivated by [6, 22], one can define the mild solution for system (1).
Definition 5
Lemma 1
([33])
Lemma 2
- (H0)
-
\(S(t)\) is continuous in the uniform operator topology for \(t>0\) and \(\{S(t)\}_{t\geq0}\) is uniformly bounded, i.e., there exists \(M>1\) such that \(\sup_{t\in[0,\infty)}|S(t)|< M\).
Lemma 3
([6])
- (i)\(P_{\mu}(t)\), \(T_{\mu}(t)\), and\(S_{\nu,\mu}(t)\)are linear and bounded operators, that is, for\(\forall t\geq0\), \(x\in X\),$$\begin{aligned}& \bigl\Vert P_{\mu}(t)x \bigr\Vert \leq\frac{M \Vert x \Vert }{\Gamma(\mu)},\qquad \bigl\Vert T_{\mu}(t)x \bigr\Vert \leq\frac {Mt^{\mu-1} \Vert x \Vert }{\Gamma(\mu)}\quad \textit{and} \\& \bigl\Vert S_{\nu,\mu}(t)x \bigr\Vert \leq\frac{Mt^{\alpha-1} \Vert x \Vert }{\Gamma (\alpha)},\quad \alpha=\nu+\mu-\nu\mu. \end{aligned}$$
- (ii)
Operators\(P_{\mu}(t)\), \(T_{\mu}(t)\), and\(S_{\nu,\mu}(t)\)are strongly continuous.
3 Existence of mild solutions
- (H1):
- There exist a function \(\psi\in L^{2}(J,R^{+})\) and a constant \(c_{1}>0\) such that, for \(\forall t\in J\), \(\forall x\in X\),$$\bigl\Vert f(t,x) \bigr\Vert \leq\psi(t)+c_{1}t^{1-\alpha}\|x \|. $$
- (H2):
- There exists a constant \(l_{1}>0\) such that, for \(\forall t\in J\), \(\forall x_{1},x_{2}\in X\),$$\bigl\Vert f(t,x_{1})-f(t,x_{2}) \bigr\Vert \leq l_{1}t^{1-\alpha}\|x_{1}-x_{2}\|. $$
- (H3):
- There exists a constant \(p>\frac{1}{2\mu-1}\) such that the function \(\sigma: J\rightarrow L^{0}_{2}\) satisfies$$\int_{0}^{b} \bigl\Vert \sigma(s) \bigr\Vert ^{2p}_{L^{0}_{2}}\,ds< \infty. $$
- (H4):
- There exists a constant \(c_{2}>0\) such that, for \(\forall x\in\mathscr{C}\),$$\bigl\Vert g(x) \bigr\Vert \leq c_{2}\bigl(1+ \Vert x \Vert _{\mathscr{C}}\bigr). $$
- (H5):
- There exists a constant \(l_{2}>0\) such that, for \(\forall x_{1},x_{2}\in\mathscr{C}\),$$\bigl\Vert g(x_{1})-g(x_{2}) \bigr\Vert \leq l_{2} \Vert yx_{1}-x_{2} \Vert _{\mathscr{C}}. $$
Theorem 1
Proof
Step 1: T maps \(\mathscr{C}\) into \(\mathscr{C}\).
Claim 1
For any\(y(t)=t^{1-\alpha}x(t)\), \(\sup_{t\in J}E\| (Fy)(t)\|^{2}<\infty\).
Claim 2
For any\(y(t)=t^{1-\alpha}x(t)\), \(t\rightarrow(Fy)(t)\)is continuous onJin\(L^{2}(\Omega,X)\)-sense.
By using the analogous argument performed in \(I_{2}\), we can conclude that \(\lim_{t_{2}\rightarrow t_{1}}I_{3}=0\). Thus, \(t\rightarrow(Fy)(t)\) is continuous on J in \(L^{2}(\Omega ,X)\)-sense. By Claims 1–2, we know that F maps \(C(J,L^{2}(\Omega ,X))\) into \(C(J,L^{2}(\Omega,X))\), which means that T maps \(\mathscr {C}\) into \(\mathscr{C}\).
Step 2. T is a contraction.
4 Existence of optimal controls
In this section, the existence of optimal controls is investigated.
- (H6):
-
- (i)
The function \(\mathscr{L}: J \times X \times U \rightarrow R\cup\{\infty\}\) is Borel measurable,
- (ii)
\(\mathscr{L}(t,\cdot,\cdot)\) is sequentially lower semicontinuous on \(X\times U\) for almost all \(t\in J\),
- (iii)
\(\mathscr{L}(t,x,\cdot)\) is convex on U for \(\forall x\in X\) and almost all \(t\in J\),
- (iv)there exist constants \(d\geq0\), \(e>0\), and \(\phi\in L^{1}(J,R^{+})\) such that$$\mathscr{L}(t,x,u)\geq\phi(t)+d\|x\|+e\|u\|^{2}. $$
- (i)
Theorem 2
Assume that conditions (H0)–(H5) and (3) are satisfied. For\(\forall u\in U_{\mathrm{ad}}\), system (7) has a unique mild solution on\(\mathscr{C}\).
Proof
Now we can give the following results on the existence of optimal controls for the Lagrange problem \((\mathscr{P})\).
Theorem 3
Proof
5 An example
It is easy to check that A generates a strongly continuous semigroup \(\{S(t)\}_{t\geq0}\) which is compact, analytic, and self-adjoint [4]. Hence, (H0) is fulfilled.
Obviously, (H6) is satisfied. We can choose \(c_{2}=l_{2}=(m+1) (\int_{0}^{\pi}\int_{0}^{\pi}\gamma ^{2}(\xi,\tau)\,d\tau \,d\xi )^{\frac{1}{2}}\). Then (H4) and (H5) are satisfied.
If conditions (3), (8), and (H3) are satisfied, then by Theorem 3, system (10) is approximately controllable.
6 Conclusion
In this paper, we study a class of Hilfer fractional stochastic differential equations. By means of stochastic analysis theory, fractional calculations, and operator semigroup theory, we obtain the existence and uniqueness of mild solutions for these equations. Moreover, the existence of optimal pairs for the corresponding Lagrange control systems is investigated. Our future work will be focused on investigating the optimal control problem of Hilfer fractional stochastic differential equations with Lévy noise.
Notes
Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank the referees and the editor for their valuable comments which led to improvement of this work.
Authors’ contributions
All authors participated in drafting and checking the manuscript and approved the final manuscript.
Funding
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under grant 61671002.
Competing interests
The authors declare to have no competing interests.
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