1. Introduction
The theory and applications of fractional differential equations are contained in many monographs and articles [
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
10,
11,
12,
13,
14,
15,
16,
17,
18,
19,
20,
21,
22,
23,
24]. Over the last years, the fractional order differential equations have proved to be the most valuable and effective tools in the modeling of several phenomena in various fields of science and engineering. In fact, we can find numerous applications on the design of fractional control systems. The electrical properties of nerve cell membranes and the propagation of electrical signals are both characterized by fractional order derivatives.The Fractional Adevective - Dispersive equation has been the model basis for simulating transport in porous media. This model has been applied to laboratory and field experiments. The fundamental explorations of the mechanical, electrical and thermal constitutive relations of various engineering materials such as viscoelastic polymers, are modeled successfully. In the area of financial markets, fractional order models have been recently used to describe the probability distribution of log prices in the long time - limit which is useful to characterize the natural variability in prices in the long term. See for example [
1,
7,
8,
12,
13,
16,
18,
20,
21,
25].
Fractional differentials and integrals provide more accurate models of the above aforementioned system. There are several kinds of definitions for fractional derivatives and integrals such as the Riemann - Liouville definition, the Caputo definition, the Liouville right-sided definition on the half axis
which are all based on integrals with singular kernels and exhibiting non - local behaviors which fail to satisfy the product, quotient and chain rules. In contrast, 2014, Khalil et al, introduced a limit based definition analogous to that for standard derivatives. See [
2,
3,
4,
11,
19].
In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in obtaining sufficient conditions for oscillatory and nonoscillatory behavior of different classes of fractional differential equations. The oscillation theory of fractional differential equations with Liouville right - sided definition has been studied by many authors Chen [
6], Xu [
22], Han [
9], Pan [
15] and with damping term investigated by some other author’s Qi [
17], Zheng [
23,
24].
In 2013, Xu [
22] investigated the oscillatory behavior of class of nonlinear fractional differential equations of the following form
In the same year, Zheng and Feng [
23] discussed the oscillatory behavior of the following equation
for
In 2017, Pavithra and Muthulakshmi [
14] studied the oscillatory behavior for the class of nonlinear fractional differential equations with damping term of the following form
In 2020, G. E. Chatzarakis et al, investigated the Oscillatory Properties of a Certain Class of Mixed Fractional Differential Equations with the conformable fractional derivative and the Riemann-Liouville left-sided fractional derivative. From the above quoted literature, we have observed that the Liouville right-sided fractional derivative together with classical integer order derivative are used for order nonlinear differential equations. To the best of the author’s knowledge, it seems that there has been no work done with conformable and Liouville right-sided derivatives in the fractional order differential equations.
Motivated by this gap, the authors have initiated the following oscillation problem of a class of mixed fractional order nonlinear differential equation of the form
where
denotes the Liouville right-sided fractional derivative and
denotes the conformable fractional derivatives.
Throughout this paper, we will assume that the following conditions hold:
;
is an increasing and odd function and there exist positive constants such that for where i=1,2 and let ;
with for and there exist some positive constants such that for i=1,2, where ;
there exists a function such that for .
By a solution of (1.1), we mean a function such that and satisfies (1.1) on
A nontrivial solution of (1.1) is called oscillatory if it has arbitrary large zeros, otherwise it is called nonoscillatory. (1.1) is called oscillatory if all of its solutions are oscillatory.
The main purpose of this paper is to extend and generalize all the results established in [
6,
9,
14,
15,
17,
22,
23,
24] to the mixed fractional differential equations (1.1) and to provide a detailed discussion of the main results by making use of the generalized Riccati technique and integral averaging method.
This paper is organized as follows: In
Section 2, we recall the basic definitions of Liouville right-sided derivative and conformable fractional derivatives along with basic lemmas concerning the above set of derivatives. In
Section 3, we present some new results of oscillation of solutions of (1.1). In
Section 4, examples are provided to illustrate the main results.
2. Preliminaries
Before starting our analysis of (1.1), we have to explain the meaning of the operators and For the sake of completeness let us provide the essentials of fractional calculus according to Liouville right-sided approach and Khalil’s conformable fractional derivative. Let us first define the Liouville right-sided operator.
Definition 2.1 ([
12])
. The Liouville right-sided fractional derivative of order α of is defined by
where is the gamma function defined by
Lemma 2.1 ([
6])
. Let x(t) be a solution of (1.1) and
Then
Next, we give the definition of the conformable fractional derivative proposed by Khalil et al [
11].
Definition 2.2.
Given a function Then the conformable fractional derivative of f of order is defined by
for all If f is α- differentiable in some exists, then define
We will sometimes write for to denote the conformable fractional derivatives of f of order
Some properties of conformable fractional derivative:
Let and f and g be - differentiable at a point . Then
for all
for all constant functions
If, in addition, f is differentiable, then
Definition 2.3 ([
19])
. Let and A function is α-fractional integrable on [a,b] if the integral
exists and is finite.
Lemma 2.2 ([
2])
. Let be differentiable and . Then, for all we have
The following inequality is taken from Hardy et al [
10], used in the sequel.
Lemma 2.3.
If X and Y are nonnegative, then
3. Main Results
In this section, we will present some new oscillation criteria for (1.1).
Lemma 3.1.
Assume that is an eventually positive solution of (1.1). If
and
then there exists a sufficiently large T, such that on and one of the following two conditions holds:
(i) on
(ii) on and
Proof. Let
be such that
on
and so
on
Thus by (1.1) and
we have
which means that
is strictly increasing on
. Consequently, we can conclude that
is eventually of one sign. We claim that
on
where
is sufficiently large. Otherwise, there exists a sufficiently large
such that
on
Then for
and using Lemma 2.2, we get
From
, we have
which implies that for some sufficiently large
Thus, it is obvious that
From
we have
and therefore
Integrating (3.6) from
to t, we obtain
Letting
it follows that
which contradicts (3.1). Therefore
on
From,
we get that
is eventually one sign. Consequently, there are two possibilities:(i)
on
(ii)
for on
for sufficiently large T. Suppose
for
for sufficiently large
Thus,
and we have
Now we claim that
Otherwise, assuming
then
on
By (3.3) we have
for
- integrating the above inequality from t to ∞ and using Lemma 2.2, we can derive
From
we have that
for
-integrating both sides of (3.7) from t to
we obtain
for
Applying Lemma 2.1 and
we have
Integrating both sides of (3.8) from T to t, we obtain
Letting
and using (3.2), we get
. This contradicts
The proof of the lemma is complete. □
Lemma 3.2.
Suppose that is an eventually positive solution of (1.1) such that on where is sufficiently large. Then
and
where
Proof. As in Lemma 3.1, we deduce that
is strictly increasing on
. So, we have
From
we obtain
which implies that,
Integrating the above inequality from
to t, we obtain
Consequently,
The proof of the lemma is complete. □
Theorem 3.1.
Assume that (3.1), (3.2) hold and suppose that exists such that for some and for all If there exist two functions such that
for sufficiently large T, where is defined in Lemma 3.2, then every solution of (1.1) is oscillatory or
Proof. Suppose that (1.1) has a nonoscillatory solution on Without loss of generality, we may assume that on for By Lemma 3.1, we have for some sufficiently large and either on or
First, suppose that
on
. We define the generalized Riccati function
when
on
Now, differentiating (3.13) for
times with respect to t for
Then, making use of
and
it follows that
or
Integrating the above inequality from
to t, we obtain,
and letting
we get a contradiction to (3.12). The proof of the theorem is complete. □
Theorem 3.2.
Assume that (3.1) and (3.2) hold. If there exist two functions such that
for sufficiently large T, where is defined in Lemma 3.2, then every solution of (1.1) is oscillatory or
Proof. Suppose that (1.1) has a nonoscillatory solution on Without loss of generality, we may assume that on for By Lemma 3.1, we have for some sufficiently large and either on or
Assume that
on
. Let us define the generalized Riccati function as follows,
when
on
The rest of the proof is similar to that of the Theorem 3.1. □
Next, we discuss some new oscillation criteria for (1.1) by using integral average method.
Theorem 3.3. Let and
Assume that (3.1), (3.2) hold and there exists a function is said to belong to the class if
for on ,
H has a continuous and non positive partial derivative on with respect to the second variable and
for all sufficiently large T, where are defined as in Theorem 3.1. Then every solution of (1.1) is oscillatory or
Proof. Suppose that (1.1) has a nonoscillatory solution on Without loss of generality, we may suppose that on for some large By Lemma 3.1, we have for some sufficiently large and either on or
Now, we assume
on
for some sufficiently large
Let
be defined as in Theorem 3.1. By (3.14), we have
Multiplying both sides by
and then integrating it with respect to s from
to t yields
Then,
Therefore
which contradicts (3.17). The proof of the theorem is complete. □
In this theorem, if we take for some special functions such as or then we can obtain some corollaries as follows.
Corollary 3.1.
Assume that (3.1), (3.2) hold and
for sufficiently large T. Then every solution of (1.1) is oscillatory or
Corollary 3.2.
Assume that (3.1), (3.2) hold and
for sufficiently large T. Then every solution of (1.1) is oscillatory or
4. Examples
In this section, we give some examples to illustrate our main results.
Example 4.1.
Consider the fractional differential equation
This corresponds to (1.1) with ,
, where Then, we have
and
Furthermore,
On the other hand, for sufficiently large T, we get
Thus we can take such that for .
Letting
provided Hence, all the conditions of Theorem 3.1 are satisfied. Therefore, every solution of (4.1) is oscillatory or
Example 4.2.
Consider the fractional differential equation
This corresponds to (1.1) with ,
,
Then, we have
and
In addition, we can get
Furthermore,
On the other hand, for sufficiently large T, we get
Thus we can take such that for .
Letting
Hence, all the conditions of Theorem 3.2 are satisfied. Therefore, every solution of (4.2) is oscillatory or
Example 4.3.
Consider the fractional differential equation
This corresponds to (1.1) with ,
,
.
Then, we have
and
In addition, we can get
Furthermore,
On the other hand, for sufficiently large T, we get
Thus, we can take such that for .
Letting
provided Hence all the conditions of Theorem 3.3 are satisfied. Therefore, every solution of (4.3) is oscillatory or
Conclusion
In this article, the authors have derived some new oscillation results for a class of mixed fractional order nonlinear differential equations with conformable fractional derivative and Liouville right-sided fractional derivative, by using the generalized Riccati technique and integral averaging method. This work extends and generalizes some of the results in the known literature [
5,
8,
13,
14,
16,
21,
22,
23] to the mixed fractional differential equations. Some illustrative examples are given to test the effectiveness of our newly established results.
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