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January  2021, 20(1): 339-358. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2020269

Analytical and numerical monotonicity results for discrete fractional sequential differences with negative lower bound

 1 School of Mathematics and Statistics, UNSW Sydney, NSW 2052 Australia 2 Department of Mathematics, Creighton Preparatory School, Omaha, NE 68114 USA 3 Department of Mathematics, University of Nebraska-Omaha, Omaha, NE 68182-0243 USA

* Corresponding author

Received  April 2020 Revised  August 2020 Published  November 2020

We investigate the relationship between the sign of the discrete fractional sequential difference
 $\big(\Delta_{1+a-\mu}^{\nu}\Delta_a^{\mu}f\big)(t)$
and the monotonicity of the function
 $t\mapsto f(t)$
. More precisely, we consider the special case in which this fractional difference can be negative and satisfies the lower bound
 $$$\big(\Delta_{1+a-\mu}^{\nu}\Delta_a^{\mu}f\big)(t)\ge-\varepsilon f(a),\notag$$$
for some
 $\varepsilon>0$
. We prove that even though the fractional difference can be negative, the monotonicity of the function
 $f$
, nonetheless, is still implied by the above inequality. This demonstrates a significant dissimilarity between the fractional and non-fractional cases. Because of the challenges of a purely analytical approach, our analysis includes numerical simulation.
Citation: Christopher S. Goodrich, Benjamin Lyons, Mihaela T. Velcsov. Analytical and numerical monotonicity results for discrete fractional sequential differences with negative lower bound. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, 2021, 20 (1) : 339-358. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2020269
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Math., 236 (2020), 533-589.  doi: 10.1007/s11856-020-1991-2.  Google Scholar [21] C. S. Goodrich and C. Lizama, Positivity, monotonicity, and convexity for convolution operators, Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst., 40 (2020), 4961-4983.  doi: 10.3934/dcds.2020207.  Google Scholar [22] C. S. Goodrich and B. Lyons, Positivity and monotonicity results for triple sequential fractional differences via convolution, Analysis (Berlin), 40 (2020), 89-103.  doi: 10.1515/anly-2019-0050.  Google Scholar [23] C. S. Goodrich and M. Muellner, An analysis of the sharpness of monotonicity results via homotopy for sequential fractional operators, Appl. Math. Lett., 98 (2019), 446-452.  doi: 10.1016/j.aml.2019.07.003.  Google Scholar [24] C. Goodrich and A. C. Peterson, Discrete Fractional Calculus, Springer, New York, 2015. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-25562-0.  Google Scholar [25] M. Holm, Sum and difference compositions in discrete fractional calculus, Cubo, 13 (2011), 153-184.  doi: 10.4067/s0719-06462011000300009.  Google Scholar [26] B. Jia, L. Erbe, C. S. Goodrich and A. Peterson, Monotonicity results for delta fractional differences revisited, Math. Slovaca, 67 (2017), 895-906.  doi: 10.1515/ms-2017-0018.  Google Scholar [27] B. Jia, L. Erbe and A. Peterson, Two monotonicity results for nabla and delta fractional differences, Arch. Math., 104 (2015), 589-597.  doi: 10.1007/s00013-015-0765-2.  Google Scholar [28] B. Jia, L. Erbe and A. Peterson, Monotonicity and convexity for nabla fractional $q$-differences, Dynam. Systems Appl., 25 (2016), 47-60.   Google Scholar [29] B. Jia, L. Erbe and A. Peterson, Convexity for nabla and delta fractional differences, J. Differ. Equ. Appl., 21 (2015), 360-373.  doi: 10.1080/10236198.2015.1011630.  Google Scholar [30] B. Jia, L. Erbe and A. Peterson, Some relations between the Caputo fractional difference operators and integer-order differences, Electron. J. Differ. Equ., (2015), 7 pp.  Google Scholar [31] J. M. Jonnalagadda, An ordering on Green's function and a Lyapunov-type inequality for a family of nabla fractional boundary value problems, Fract. Differ. Calc., 9 (2019), 109-124.  doi: 10.7153/fdc-2019-09-08.  Google Scholar [32] A. Kilbas, H. M. Srivastava and J. J. Trujillo, Theory and Applications of Fractional Differential Equations, North-Holland, New York, 2006.  Google Scholar [33] C. Lizama, The Poisson distribution, abstract fractional difference equations, and stability, P. Am. Math. Soc., 145 (2017), 3809-3827.  doi: 10.1090/proc/12895.  Google Scholar [34] C. Lizama and M. Murillo-Arcila, Well posedness for semidiscrete fractional Cauchy problems with finite delay, J. Comput. Appl. Math., 339 (2018), 356-366.  doi: 10.1016/j.cam.2017.07.027.  Google Scholar [35] R. Wong and R. Beals, Special Functions: A Graduate Text, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2010.  doi: 10.1017/CBO9780511762543.  Google Scholar
Graphical representation of the set $\mathscr{E}_{k, 0.1}$ for $k \le 72$
Graphical representation of the set $\mathscr{E}_{k, 0.01}$ for $k \le 72$
Graphical representation of the set $\mathscr{E}_{k, 0.001}$ for $k \le 72$
Graphical representation of the set $\mathscr{E}_{k, 0.0001}$ for $k \le 72$
Graphical representation of the set $\mathscr{E}_{k, 0.00001}$ for $k \le 72$
Heat maps for the cardinality of the set $\{ k\ : \ (\mu, \nu ) \in \mathscr{E}_{k,\varepsilon}\}$ for $\varepsilon = 0.01, 0.001, 0.0001, 0.00001, 0.000001, 0.0000001$. The cardinality increases from small (dark blue) to large (dark red) and the actual cardinalities are shown along the sidebar of each subplot
Heat maps for the cardinality of the set $\{ k\ : \ (\mu, \nu ) \in \mathscr{E}_{k,\varepsilon}\}$ for $\varepsilon = 1/100, 1/150, 1/400, 1/650, 1/900, 1/1000$. These correspond to the interval of $\varepsilon$ reflected in the top two subplots of Figure 6. Notice the change of cardinality values as $\varepsilon$ decreases
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