In this article, we explore the question of existence and finite time stability for fuzzy Hilfer-Katugampola fractional delay differential equations. By using the generalized Gronwall inequality and Schauder’s fixed point theorem, we establish existence of the solution, and the finite time stability for the presented problems. Finally, the effectiveness of the theoretical result is shown through verification and simulations for an example.
Fuzzy fractional integral and differential equations have drawn a large amount of attention, due to they not only provide a valuable tool for describing the memory and hereditary properties in various types of material and motion processes [1–4], but also can be describing uncertainty, vagueness, incomplete information in physics, chemistry, biology, economics, engineering systems, etc [5, 6]. For these reasons, fuzzy fractional calculus and fuzzy fractional differential equations has emerged as a significant topic (see [7–9]). In particular, some researchers have dedicated to the study of the existence, uniqueness, stability for fuzzy fractional integral and differential equations. For instance, Agarwal et al. [10] considered a Riemann-Liouville type fractional fuzzy differential equations and presented the concept of solution. Alikhani and Bahrami [11] employed the method of upper and lower solutions to obtain the existence of global solutions for nonlinear fuzzy fractional integral and integrodifferential equations involving Riemann-Liouville differential operators. Other contribution was also studied in [12]. Fard and Salehi [13] considered some fuzzy Caputo-type fractional variational problems. Mazandarani and Kamyad [14] solved fuzzy fractional initial value problem by modified fractional Euler method. Najariyan and Zhao [15] studied fuzzy fractional quadratic regulator problem under granular Caputo and Riemann-Liouville fuzzy fractional derivatives by approximation method. Salahshour et al. [16] solved fuzzy Riemann-Liouville fractional differential equations by fuzzy Laplace transforms. Hoa et al. [17] pointed out that the equivalence between fractional fuzzy differential equations and fractional fuzzy integral equations in paper [18] is not correct and gave an appropriate condition so that thisequivalence is valid. Following the idea in [17], Hoa et al. [19] proved the existence and uniqueness results of the solution to Caputo-Katugampola fractional differential equations in fuzzy setting by employing the method of successive approximation and by means of fixed point theorems. For some different classes of fuzzy fractional order differential equations, other contributions were also studied in [20–22]. Hoa and Vu [23] applied generalized Banach fixed point theorem to prove the initial value problems of fuzzy implicit fractional differential equations. Recently, Long et al. [24] investigated Ulam stability of partial fuzzy differential equations with Caputo fractional derivative concept. Ulam-Hyers stability and Ulam-Hyers-Rassias stability for various types of fuzzy fractional integral and differential equations were investigated in [25–28] and the cited references therein.
As mentioned above, fruitful results for Fuzzy fractional integral and differential equations are obtained, it seems that there are still many unanswered questions and interesting ideas in the making. The well known the concept of the finite time stability plays a crucial role in characterizing the nature of dynamic systems or differential equations. As pointed out by [29–31] that “ the finite time stability is different from concepts of Lyapunov asymptotic stability and exponential stability.”Furthermore, Oliveira and de Oliveira [32] recently proposed a Hilfer-Katugampola fractional derivatives and pointed out this fractional derivative is a generalization of the classical fractional derivatives. Therefore, it is of great importance to analyze the finite time stability for fuzzy fractional integral and differential equations with Hilfer-Katugampola fractional derivatives. However, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, there is no result on existence and finite time stability results of fuzzy Hilfer-Katugampola fractional delay differential equations. Consequently, this paper is devoted to exploring existence and finite time stability results of fuzzy Hilfer-Katugampola fractional delay differential equations given by
where , symbols , stand for Riemann-Liouville generalized fractional integral of order (1 - α) (1 - β) of the fuzzy function x and the fuzzy Hilfer-Katugampola fractional derivative, respectively, which will be specified later, f : [0, b] × C ([- τ, 0] ; E) → E is a fuzzy function, φ ∈ C ([- τ, 0] ; E), E is the space of fuzzy sets.
The novelties of this article are twofold. The first one is to introduce a new class of fuzzy fractional delay differential equations and to investigate their existence of solutions and finite time stability. Here, compared with existing results in [10–17, 24–27], the novelty arises in the special structure of the problem we consider, which use Hilfer-Katugampola fractional derivatives admitting as particular cases the well-known fractional derivatives of Caputo [13–15, 27], generalized Caputo-type [19], Riemann-Liouville [10–12, 25], Hadamard, Caputo-Hadamard [26], Weyl and Liouville, Hilfer, Hilfer-Hadamard. As pointed out by authors [32] that ”in contrast to fractional derivatives mentioned above, the Hilfer-Katugampola fractional derivatives with regular variation function can widely describe the behaviour of fractional integrals and derivatives near their low limits.” On the other hand, authors of the literature [20, 22] mainly applied successive approximation method to consider fuzzy fractional differential equations, while we mainly use the generalized Gronwall inequality to investigate the finite time stability for fuzzy fractional delay differential equations. Therefore, the method used in this paper is different from that in [20, 22]. This is the second novelty of the present work.
The plan of this paper is organized into four sections. We list some necessary preliminaries in Section 2. In section 3, we obtain the existence of solutions, and the finite time stability for (1.1). Section 4 gives an example to illustrate our main results.
Preliminaries
In this section, we will give some basic notations and preliminaries needed throughout the whole paper.
Definition 2.1.2.1[33] A fuzzy number E is a fuzzy convex and normal fuzzy subset in with upper semicontinuous membership function and compact support.
Let us denote by
the l-level set of a fuzzy set u on , and the support [u] 0 of a fuzzy set is defined as , where is the closure of ⋃l∈(0,1] [u] l. Then we know that is a bounded closed interval.
Definition 2.2. [33] The distance between two fuzzy numbers is defined as
where is the Hausdorff distance between [u1] l and [u2] l.
Definition 2.3.[34] Basing on Zadehs extension principle, the addition and scalar multiplication in E are defined by:
Let us denote the zero element of E as follows: is equal to 1 if x0 = 0 and is equal to 0 if x0 = 0, where 0 is the zero element of . for any , the next properties hold:
Definition 2.4. [7] Let u1, u2 ∈ E. If there exists u3 ∈ E such that u1 = u2 + u3, then u3 is said to be the Hukuhara difference of u1 and u2 and it is denoted by u1 ⊖ u2. It is clear, the existence of the difference is conditional and depends on the existence of fuzzy number u3. We note that u1 ⊖ u2 ≠ u1 + (-1) u2. Then, a generalization of the Hukuhara difference aims to overcome this situation. The generalized Hukuhara difference of two fuzzy numbers u1, u2 ∈ E (for short gH-difference) is defined as follows:
In terms of the l-levels, we notice (see [5]):
and the conditions for the existence of in the case (i) are
and in the case (ii) are
Definition 2.5. [17] Let u : [0, b] → E. The diameter of the l-level set of the fuzzy function u is defined as . The fuzzy function u is called d-increasing or d-decreasing on [0, b] if for every l ∈ [0, 1], the diameter of the fuzzy function u (t) is nondecreasing or nonincreasing, respectively, on [0, b]. If u is d-increasing or d-decreasing on [0, b], then we say that u is d-monotone on [0, b].
Definition 2.6. [7] Let u : (0, b) → E and t0 ∈ (0, b). The fuzzy function u is called generalized Hukuhara differentiable at t0, if there exists an element u′ (t0) ∈ E such that
Let C ([- τ, b] ; E) be the space of all continuous fuzzy functions from [- τ, b] into E, which endowed with the supremum metric: , AC ([0, b] ; E) the set of all absolutely continuous fuzzy functions on the interval [0, b] with values in E and L ([0, b] ; E) be the set of all fuzzy functions u : [0, b] → E such that the functions belongs to L [0, b]. Let γ = α + β - αβ, then 1 - γ = (1 - α) (1 - β), we let with the distance . We denote by A ([0, b] ; E) the family of all fuzzy functions u ∈ AC ([0, b] ; E)
We now recall some concepts of the fuzzy-type fractional calculus theory.
Definition 2.7. ([5], Definition 3.5.1) Let u ∈ L ([0, b] ; E), then the Riemann-Liouville generalized fractional integral of order α of the fuzzy function x is defined as follows:
where Γ is the gamma function defined by
Definition 2.8. 2.8[20] Let order α and type β satisfy 0 < α ≤ 1 and 0 ≤ β ≤ 1. The fuzzy Hilfer-Katugampola generalized Hukuhara fractional derivative (or Hilfer-Katugampola gH-fractional derivative) (left-sided/right-sided), with respect to t, with ρ > 0 of a fuzzy function u ∈ C1-γ ([0, b] ; E) is defined by
if the gH-derivative exists for t ∈ [0, b], where .
{Remark 2.1.
Similar to the Definition 3.5.2 in [5], Definition 2.8 can be defined.
Let order α and type β satisfy n - 1 < α ≤ n and 0 ≤ β ≤ 1. The Hilfer-Katugampola fractional derivative (left-sided/right-sided), with respect to t, with ρ > 0 of a function u ∈ C1-γ ([a, b] ; E), -∞ < a < + ∞, is defined by
Lemma 2.1.[20, Lemma 2.12] If u ∈ AC ([0, b] ; E) is a d-monotone fuzzy function, t ∈ (0, b], and α ∈ (0, 1), and is d-increasing on (0, b], then
Lemma 2.2.[36] Let α > 0, x (t), b (t) be two integrable functions and b (t) be a continuous function on [0, T]. Assume that x (t), a (t) are nonnegative, and b (t) is nonnegative and nondecreasing. If
then
Remark 2.2. In particular, if a (t) be a nondecreasing function on [0, T]. Then we obtain
where E
α (·) is the Mittag-Leffler function defined by with Re (α) >0.
Existence and finite-time stability results
In the section, we study existence of the solution, and the finite time stability for the fuzzy problem (1.1). Based on Lemma 2, similar the proof of Lemma 3.1 in [20], we are able to get the next lemma.
Lemma 3.1. Let f : [0, b] × C ([- τ, 0] ; E) → E be a continuous fuzzy function, φ ∈ C ([- τ, 0] ; E). Then a d-monotone fuzzy function x ∈ C ([0, b] ; E) is a solution of initial value problem (1.1), if and only if x satisfies the integral equation
and x (t) = φ (t) , t ∈ [- τ, 0], and the fuzzy function is d-increasing on (0, b].
Remark 3.1. The main idea of the proof for Lemma 3.1 in [20] comes from Lemma 3.1 in [19] and section 4.2 in [5, pp.128–130].
Based on definition 2.4 in [35], we give the definition of finite time stability for fuzzy problem (1.1).
Definition 3.1. The fuzzy problem (1.1) is said to be finite time stable with respect to {0, J, τ, δ, ɛ}, , such that for any solution x of fuzzy problem (1.1), if and only if and , implies a solution x of fuzzy problem (1.1) satisfying .
For simplicity, we put Lemma 3.2. Let f : [0, b] × C ([- τ, 0] ; E) → E be a continuous fuzzy function, φ ∈ C ([- τ, 0] ; E). Assume that the following hypotheses hold:
for all v ∈ C ([- τ, 0] ; E) and every t ∈ [0, b], there exist a positive constants L1 such that
with .
Then for any x ∈ C ([- τ, b] ; E) of problem (1.1), there exists a constant r > 0 such that Proof. Let x ∈ C ([- τ, 0] ; E). If t ∈ [- τ, 0], then x (t) = φ (t). Thus, from boundedness of φ, it follows that x (t) is bounded. If t ∈ [0, b], that is . Then, for σ ∈ [0, t] , t ∈ (0, b], by definition 2.3, one has
Thus, for t ∈ (0, b], from (3.1), (3.2),(H1), Definition 2.3 and the Beta function , we arrive at
We set , . We apply the generalized Gronwall inequality [36](see Remark 2.1) to show that
Therefore, there exists a constant r > 0 such that . □ We are able to establish the first result of solution for problem(1.1)Theorem 3.1.Let f : [0, b] × C ([- τ, 0] ; E) → E be a continuous fuzzy function, φ ∈ C ([- τ, 0] ; E). Assume that condition (H1) and the following hypothesis hold:
There exist a positive constants L2 such that
Then fuzzy problem (1.1) has at least one solution x in C ([- τ, b] ; E) ∩ Cγ ([0, b] ; E).Proof. By Lemma 3.1, for x ∈ C ([- τ, b] ; E), an operator Φ : C ([- τ, b] ; E) → C ([- τ, b] ; E) ∩ Cγ ([0, b] ; E) is define by
where . Let x ∈ C ([- τ, 0] ; E). Since x (t) = φ (t) , t ∈ [- τ, 0]. Then, by Lemmas 3.1, 3.2, fuzzy problem (1.1) has at least one solution x if and only if x ∈ Cγ ([0, b] ; E) satisfies . Thus, if we show that admits a fixed point in Cγ ([0, b] ; E), then problem (1.1) has at least one solution. We shall apply Schauder’s fixed point theorem to show that the fuzzy problem (1.1) has at least one solution. To this end, we divide this proof into three steps.
Step 1. According to Lemma 3.2, we set , where r∗ sufficiently large such that
We shall prove that ,
Let x ∈ Br∗. Then, for s ∈ [0, t] , t ∈ (0, b], one has
Thus, for t ∈ (0, b], similar to the proof of (3.3), by (3.4), we obtain
This shows that .
Step 2. The map is continuous on Br★. Let {xn} n≥1 ⊆ Br∗ with in Br∗. Then, for t ∈ (0, b], one has . Furthermore, for t ∈ [- τ, 0], it follows from φ ∈ C ([- τ, 0] ; E) that . Moreover, one has xnC1-α ≤ r∗ and xC1-α ≤ r∗. Thus, for s ∈ [0, t], t ∈ (0, b], by (3.5), we obtain
Therefore, by conditions (H1) (H2), for s ∈ (0, t) , t ∈ (0, b], one has
and
Since xn → x as n→ ∞ and f is a continuous fuzzy function. Consequently, by means of (3.7) the dominated convergence theorem, we can prove that as n→ ∞. This yields that as n→ ∞. Thus, we conclude that is continuous on Br∗.
Step 3. We verify is relatively compact. It follows from (see step 1) that is uniformly bounded.
In the sequel, we shall show that is a family of equicontinuous functions for each x ∈ Cγ ([0, b] ; E).
For 0 < t1 < t2 ≤ b, then by step 1, we have
We observe that the right-hand side of the above inequality is independent of x and tends to zero as t2 → t1. In view of the foregoing steps, it follows from Arzelá-Ascoli theorem that is relatively compact, and hence it is completely continuous. As a consequence of Schauder’s fixed point theorem, we conclude that fuzzy problem (1.1) has at least one solution x ∈ C ([- τ, b] ; E) ∩ Cγ ([0, b] ; E). □Theorem 3.2.Let f : [0, b] × C ([- τ, 0] ; E) → E be a continuous fuzzy function, φ ∈ C ([- τ, 0] ; E). Assume that hypotheses (H1) and (H2) hold. Then fuzzy system (1.1) is finite time stable with respect to {0, [- τ, b] , τ, δ, ɛ, provided that , where .Proof. Similar to the proof of (3.3), by Definition 3.1, we have
We set , . We apply the generalized Gronwall inequality [36](see Remark 2.1) to show that
Therefore, we obtain the finite time stability of fuzzy problem (1.1). □
An example
In this section, we will present the following example to illustrate our main results. We consider the following fuzzy problem:
where ,, d is continuous.
On the one hand, if we take λ1 = 0, then we know f (t, xt) = λx (t - τ) + d (t). It is easy to check that f is a continuous fuzzy function and satisfies hypotheses (H1) and (H2). We now choose
and
Then we have , {where M∗ is the same symbol as M∗ of Theorem 3.2. Summarizing the above, all hypotheses of Theorems 3.1 3.2 are fulfilled. Consequently, we deduce that problem (4.1) has at least one solution and is finite time stable.
On the other hand, by Theorem 4.3 in [21] and example 3.4 [20], then the solution x (t) of 4.1) expressed by
where E
α,β (·) is the Mittag-Leffler function defined by . We take λ1 = 0, d (t) = tp (d1, d2, d3) , φ (t) = (1 - t2, 2 - t2, 3 - t2) , x0 = (1, 2, 3), here p > 0, and (d1, d2, d3) is a triangular fuzzy number. By (4.2), we obtain d-increasing solution of problem (4.1) on [0, 1] as follows:
where . This solution is shown in Fig. 1.
Graph of the solution of the problem (4.1).
Conclusions
The main goal of this paper was to study the existence and finite time stability for fuzzy Hilfer-Katugampola fractional delay differential equations. We would like to mention that Li and Wang[35] investigated relative controllability of Riemann-Liouville fractional delay differential equations, and Phu, et al. [21] considered a class of neutral fuzzy fractional functional differential equations. However, to our best knowledge, there are no results for relative controllability of neutral fuzzy fractional functional differential equations. Thus, this topic would be interesting and deserves further investigation.
Footnotes
Acknowledgments
The authors are grateful to the editor and the referees for their valuable comments and suggestions.
Disclosure statement
No potential conflict of interest was reported by authors.
BaleanuD.Fractional calculus: models and numerical methods, World Scientific, Singapore, 2012.
2.
HilferR.Applications of fractional calculus in physics, applications of fractional calculus in physics, World Scientific, Singapore, 2000.
3.
KilbasA.A., SrivastavaH.M. and TrujilloJ.J., Theory and applications of fractional differential equations, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2006.
4.
PodlubnyI.Fractional differential equations, Academic Press, San Diego, 1999.
5.
AllahviranlooT.Fuzzy fractional differential operators and equations, Springer, New York, 2021.
6.
ChakravertyS., TapaswiniS., BeheraD.Fuzzy arbitrary order system: fuzzy fractional differential equations and applications, John Wiley &Sons, 2016.
7.
BedeB. and StefaniniL., Generalized differentiability of fuzzy-valued functions, Fuzzy Sets and Systems230 (2013), 119–141.
8.
GomesL.T. and BarrosL.C., A note on the generalized difference and the generalized differentiability, Fuzzy Sets and Systems280 (2015), 142–145.
9.
StefaniniL. and BedeB., Generalized Hukuhara differentiability of interval-valued functions and interval differential equations, Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods & Applications71 (2009), 1311–1328.
10.
AgarwalR.P., LakshmikanthamV. and NietoJ.J., On the concept of solution for fractional differential equations with uncertainty, Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods & Applications72 (2010), 2859–2862.
11.
AlikhaniR. and BahramiF., Global solutions for nonlinear fuzzy fractional integral and integro-differential equations, Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation18 (2013), 2007–2017.
12.
SalahshourS. and AbbasbandyS., A comment on “Global solutions for nonlinear fuzzy fractional integral and integrodifferential equations”, Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation19 (2014), 1256–1258.
13.
FardO.S. and SalehiM., A survey on fuzzy fractional variational problems, Journal of Computational & Applied Mathematics271 (2014), 71–82.
14.
MazandaraniM. and KamyadA.V., Modified fractional Euler method for solving fuzzy fractional initial value problem, Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation18 (2013), 12–21.
15.
NajariyanM. and ZhaoY., Fuzzy fractional quadratic regulator problem under granular fuzzy fractional derivatives, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems26 (2017), 2273–2288.
16.
SalahshourS., AllahviranlooT. and AbbasbandyS., Solving fuzzy fractional differential equations by fuzzy Laplace transforms, Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation17 (2012), 1372–1381.
17.
HoaN.V., LupulescuV. and O’ReganD., A note on initial value problems for fractional fuzzy differential equations, Fuzzy Sets and Systems347 (2018), 54–69.
18.
PrakashP., NietoJ.J., SenthilvelavanS. and SudhaG., Priya, Fuzzy fractional initial value problem, Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems28 (2015), 2691–2704.
19.
HoaN.V., VuH. and DucT.M., Fuzzy fractional differential equations under Caputo-Katugampola fractional derivative approach, Fuzzy Sets and Systems375 (2019), 70–99.
20.
ChenX.R., GuH.B. and WangX.Z., Existence and uniqueness for fuzzy differential equation with Hilfer-Katugampola fractional derivative, Advances in Difference Equations2020 (2020), 241.
21.
PhuN.D., LupulescuV. and HoaN.V., Neutral fuzzy fractional functional differential equations, Fuzzy Sets and Systems419 (2021), 1–34.
22.
VuH., GhanbariB. and HoaN.V., Fuzzy fractional differential equations with the generalized Atangana-Baleanu fractional derivative, Fuzzy Sets and Systems429 (2022), 1–27.
23.
HoaN.V. and VuH., A survey on the initial value problems of fuzzy implicit fractional differential equations, Fuzzy Sets and Systems400 (2020), 90–133.
24.
LongH.V., SonN.T.K., TamH.T.T. and YaoJ.C., Ulam stability for fractional partial integro-differential equation with uncertainty, Acta Mathematica Vietna42 (2017), 675–700.
25.
HoaN.V., On the stability for implicit uncertain fractional integral equations with fuzzy concept, Iranian Journal of Fuzzy Systems18(1) (2021), 185–201.
26.
VuH., AnT.V. and HoaN.V., Ulam-Hyers stability of uncertain functional differential equation in fuzzy setting with Caputo-Hadamard fractional derivative concept, Iranian Journal of Fuzzy Systems38 (2020), 2245–2259.
27.
VuH., RassiasJ.M. and HoaN.V., Ulam-Hyers-Rassias stability for fuzzy fractional integral equations, Iranian Journal of Fuzzy Systems17(2) (2020), 17–17.
28.
WangX., LuoD.F. and ZhuQ.X., Ulam-Hyers stability of caputo type fuzzy fractional differential equations with time-delays, Chaos, Solitons and Fractals156 (2022), 111822.
29.
CaoX.K. and WangJ.R., Finite-time stability of a class of oscillating systems with two delays, Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences41(13) (2018), 4943–4954.
30.
HienL.V., An explicit criterion for finite-time stability of linearnonautonomous systems with delays, Applied Mathematics Letters30 (2014), 12–18.
31.
OblozaM., Connections between Hyers and Lyapunov Stability of theOrdinary Differential Equations, Rocznik Nauk-Dydakt, PraceMat14 (1997), 141–146.
32.
OliveiraD.S. and de OliveiraE.C., Hilfer-Katugampola fractional derivatives, Computational and Applied Mathematics37(3) (2018), 3672–3690.
33.
GomesL.T., BarrosL.C., BedeB.Fuzzy differential equations in various approaches, Springer, NewYork, 2015.
34.
de BarrosL.C., BassaneziR.C.LodwickW.A.The extension principle of Zadeh and fuzzy numbers, in: A first course in fuzzy logic, fuzzy dynamical systems, and biomathematics, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2017.
35.
LiM.M. and WangJ.R., Finite time stability and relative controllability of Riemann-Liouville fractional delay differential equations, Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences42(18) (2019), 6607–6623.
36.
SousaJ.V.C., OliveiraE.C. Gronwall inequality and the Cauchy-type problem by means of Ψ-Hilfer operator, arXiv preprint arXiv, 2017.