Abstract

This manuscript deals with a class of Katugampola implicit fractional differential equations in -metric spaces. The results are based on the -Geraghty type contraction and the fixed point theory. We express an illustrative example.

1. Introduction and Preliminaries

An interesting extension and unification of fractional derivatives of the type Caputo and the type Caputo-Hadamard is called Katugampola fractional derivative that has been introduced by Katugampola [1, 2]. Some fundamental properties of this operator are presented in [3, 4]. Several results of implicit fractional differential equations have been recently provided (see [4–14] and the references therein). A new class of mixed monotone operators with concavity and applications to fractional differential equations has been considered in [15]. In [16], the authors presented some existence and uniqueness results for a class of terminal value problem for differential equations with Hilfer-Katugampola fractional derivative.

On the other side, a novel extension of -metric was suggested by Czerwik [17, 18]. Although the -metric standard looks very similar to the metric definition, it has a quite different structure and properties. For example, in the -metric topology framework, an open (closed) set is not open (closed). Additionally, the -metric function is not continuous. These weaknesses make this new structure more interesting (see [19–28]).

Throughout the paper, any mentioned set is nonempty. We consider the following type of terminal value problems of Katugampola implicit differential equations of noninteger orders: with and the function is continuous. Here, is the Katugampola fractional derivative of order .

Set . Then, forms a Banach space with the norm .

Set . Then, becomes a Banach space with the norm .

Set . Then, it forms a Banach space . Here, is called the weighted space of continuous functions.

Definition 1 (Katugampola fractional integral) [1]. The Katugampola fractional integrals of order and of a function are defined by

Definition 2 (Katugampola fractional derivatives) [1, 2]. The generalized fractional derivatives of order and corresponding to the Katugampola fractional integrals (2) defined for any by where ; if the integrals exist.

Remark 1 ([1, 2]). As a basic example, we quote for and , Giving in particular, In fact, for and , we have If we put , we obtain from (6): So, .

Theorem 1 ([2]). Let , be such that . Then, for any , where , we have (1)Inverse property:(2)Linearity property: for all , we have

Lemma 1 ([2]). Let . ; then the fractional differential equation , has a unique solution where with .

Proof. Let . from Remark 1, we have Then, the fractional equation has a particular solution as follows: Thus, the general solution of is a sum of particular solutions (12), i.e.

Lemma 2. Let . If and , then for some constant .

Proof. Let be the fractional derivative (3) of order . If we apply the operator to and use the properties (8) and (9), we get From the proof of Lemma 1, there exists , such that which implies (14).

Lemma 3. Let and and . A function forms a solution for if and only if fulfills

Proof. Let . and . Suppose that satisfies (17). Employing the operator to the each side of the equation we find From Lemma 2, we get for some . If we use the terminal condition in (21), we find which shows Henceforth, we deduce (18).
Contrariwise, if achieves (18), then ; for and .

Lemma 4. Contemplate the problem (1), and set , and .
We presume achieves Then, forms a solution of (1).

Definition 3 [29, 30]. A function is called b-metric if there is and fulfills (i)(ii)(iii)for all . We say that the tripled () is -metric space (in short, b.m.s.).

Example 1 [29, 30]. Letbe described asErgo, is -metric space.

Example 2 [29, 30]. Set and be designated by Henceforth, () with is -metric space.

We set the following: .

For some , we set .

Definition 4 [29, 30]. A self-operator , on a b.m.s. (), is called a generalized Geraghty contraction whenever there exists , and some such that for we have for all , where .

Remark 2. In the case when in Definition 4 and the fact that the inequality (29) becomes

Definition 5 [29, 30]. Set . An operator , is admissible if for all .

Definition 6 [29, 30]. Let () with be a b.m.s and .
We say that is regular if for any sequence in such that as and for each ; there exists subsequence of with for all .

Theorem 2 [29, 30]. We presume that a self-operator over a complete b.m.s.
() with forms a generalized Geraghty contraction. Furthermore, (i) is admissible with initial value for some (ii)either is continuous or is regularThen possesses a fixed point. Furthermore, if (iii)for all fixed points , either or , then the found fixed point is unique

This manuscript launches the study of Katugampola implicit fractional differential equations on b.m.s.

2. Main Results

Observe that is a complete b.m.s. with described as

A function is called a solution of (1) if it archives with .

In the sequel, we shall need the following hypotheses:

(H₁) There exist and so that for each , and with