
Recepción: 28 Noviembre 2021
Revisado: 19 Abril 2022
Publicación: 30 Junio 2022
Abstract:
In this paper, we deal with the existence of solutions for a coupled system of integral equations in the Cartesian product of weighted Sobolev spaces E = W 1,1(a, b) × W 1,1(a, b).
The results were achieved by equipping the space with the vector-valued norms and using the measure of noncompactness constructed in [F.P. Najafabad, J.J. Nieto, H.A. Kayvanloo, Measure of noncompactness on weighted Sobolev space with an application to some nonlinear convolution type integral equations, J. Fixed Point Theory Appl., 22(3), 75, 2020] to applicate the generalized Darbo’s fixed point theorem [J.R. Graef, J. Henderson, and A. Ouahab, Topological Methods for Differential Equations and Inclusions, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2018].
Keywords: coupled system of integral equation, weighted Sobolev spaces, Darbo’s fixed point theorem, M-set contractive, generalized measure of noncompactness.
1Introduction
Sobolev spaces
[7] are the classes of functions
defined a.e. on
with its derivatives in distributional sense
for orders
in
. One of the most important mathematical discoveries of the XXth century was the concept of Sobolev spaces. This theory is essential in the study of nonlinear partial differential equations in modern analysis. In the early 1970s, Muckenhoupt [14] introduced the
class of weights, which are common in applications. Following that, many papers and books have been discussed intensively in Sobolev spaces with Muckenhoupt’s weights.
Measures of noncompactness introduced by Kuratowski [12] are functions that measure the degree of noncompactness of sets in complete metric spaces. These functions play an outstanding role in fixed point theory. In 1955, Darbo presented a fixed point theorem [8] using this notion. Furthermore, several interesting papers on the solvability of various integral equations in Sobolev spaces without weights using the measures of noncompactness have been shown; see, for example, [3, 5, 11, 13].
The coupled system of integral equations describe a phenomenon in biological science, physics, electrodynamics, electromagnetic, and fluid dynamics. In the last decades, the problem of existence solutions of these equations has been taking great interest [1, 4, 16–18]. In particular, Nasiri et al. [16] gave an existing result of the following category of Volterra integral equations system:
(1)in
. Here
is real Banach algebra, and the entries on system (1) satisfy certain conditions. The idea used here is to prove that system (1) has a coupled fixed point with the help of the measure of noncompactness defined by

where
is a convex function from
into
satisfying
if and only if
, and
is a usual measure of noncompactness.
Another method to ensure the existence of solutions of a coupled system of integral equations is to work on some suitable generalized Banach space in the sense of Perov. In [10], the authors extended Darbo’s fixed point theorem on generalized Banach spaces by replacing the set contraction factor with a matrix convergent to zero and the usual measure of noncompactness of a set A with a generalized (vector) measure of noncompactness

(see Definition 8 and Theorem 1 below).
More recently, authors in [15] constructed a new measure of noncompactness on weighted Sobolev spaces
, where
is
weight, and presented the effectiveness of this measure by studying the existence of solution of some nonlinear convolutiontype integral equations using Darbo’s fixed point theorem.
The organization for the rest of this manuscript is as follows: Section 2 is devoted to the presentation of definitions and some auxiliary results regarding the main objects of the monograph. In Section 3, we present existence results with the help of the so-called generalized measure of noncompactness for the following system of the integral equation (SIE):
(2)where the functions
are given and verify some conditions. The functional setting of this system is the generalized Banach space 
. Finally, an example is given to show the effectiveness of the obtained result.
2 Preliminaries
We recall some concepts that are necessary for this paper. So, this section deals with notations, definitions, and auxiliary results of weighted Sobolev spaces, generalized Banach spaces, generalized measures of noncompactness, and fixed point theory. Beginning with a review of the definition of weights, in particular,
weights, for more details, we refer the reader to the following monographs: [9, 14].
Definition 1. (See [19].) A weight on
is a locally integrable function
such that
for a.e.
.
Definition 2. (See [19].) A weight
is said to be an
weight if there exists a positive constant
such that for every ball
,

here
is the Lebesgue measure of the ball
. The infimum over all such constants
is called the
constant of
. We denote by
the set of all
weights.
Let
be a weight, and let
be open. We define the weighted Lebesgue space
as the set of measurable functions
on
such that

Definition 3. (See [19].) Suppose that the weight
is in
. Then we define the weighted Sobolev space
as the set of functions
with weak derivatives
. The weighted Sobolev space
is a Banach space with the norm

Now, define on
the partial order relation as follows. Let 
and
. Put
and 
. Then
Formula

Let
be a bounded set of
, the supremum bound (resp. the infimun bound) of
is the vector

Definition 4. Let
be a vector space on
. By a generalized norm on
we mean a map

satisfying the following properties:
For all
, then
,
for all
and
, and
for all
.
The pair
is called a vector (generalized) normed space. Furthermore,
is called a generalized Banach space (in short, GBS) if the vector metric space generated by its vector metric is complete.
Proposition 1. (See [10].) In a GBS, in the sense of Perov, the definitions of convergence sequence, continuity, open subsets, and closed subsets are similar to those for usual Banach spaces.
Let
be a generalized Banach space. Throughout this paper and for 
, and
, we denote by
the open ball centered at
with radius
(resp.
) and by
the closed ball centered at
with radius
(resp.
). If
, we simply denote
. Finally, we respectively denote by
and co
the closure and the convex hull of an arbitrary subset
of
.
Definition 5. A matrix
is said to be convergent to zero if

Lemma 1. See [20].) Let
. The following affirmations are equivalent:

The matrix
is invertible, and
.
The spectral radius
is strictly less than 1.
Definition 6. Let
be a GBS, and let K be a subset of
. Then
is said to be G-bounded if there is a vector
. such that for all
, and we write

Definition 7.Let
be a GBS. A subset
of
is called G-compact if every open cover of
has a finite subcover.
is said relatively G-compact if its closure is G-compact.
We denote by
(
) the family of all relatively G-compact subsets of
.
Now, we present a definition of an axiomatic measure of noncompactness for generalized Banach spaces similar to that introduced in 1980 by Banas´ and Goebel [6].
Definition 8. Let
be a GBS, and let
be the family of G-bounded subsets of
. A map

is called a generalized measure of noncompactness (for short G-MNC) defined on
if it satisfies the following conditions:
The family
is nonempty, and ker
.
Monotonicity:
for all
.
Invariance under closure and convex hull:
for all
.
Convexity:
for all
and
.
Generalized Cantor intersection property: if
is a sequence of nonempty, closed subsets of
such that
is G-bounded and
and
, then the set
is nonempry and is G-compact.
Definition 9. Let
be a GBS, and let
be a G-MNC. A self-mapping
:
is said to be a
-set contractive with respect to
if
maps G-bounded sets into G-bounded sets and there exists a matrix
such that

for every nonempty G-bounded subset
of
If the matrix
converges to zero, then we say that
satisfies the generalized Darbo condition.
Theorem 1. (See[10].) Let
be a GBS. Then every nonempty G-bounded, closed, convex subset
of
has the fixed point property for continuous mappings satisfying the generalized Darbo condition.
Theorem 2. (See [15].) Let
be a bounded subset of the space
. For
and
, let us denote

where
for
, and

The function
is a measure of noncompactness on the weighted Sobolev space
, and moreover,
Proposition 2. The space
define a generalized Banach space equipped with the generalized norm

for each
. Furthermore, the function
:
defined as

is generalized measure of noncompactness on
.
Definition 10. (See [2].) A function
is said to have the Carathéodory property if
the function
is measurable for any
,
the function
is continuous for almost all
.
3 Main results
In this section, we study the existence of solutions for the system of integral equation (SIE) (2). Problem (2) will be discussed under the following assumptions:
(H1) 
(H.) The functions
satisfy the Carathéodory conditions and have the continuous derivatives of order 1 with respect to the first variable, and
There exists a matrix
such that for each
and for
, we have

There exists a matrix
such that for each
and for
and 

There exists a matrix
such that for each
and for
and
, we have

For each
the functions
.
(H3) The functions
satisfy the Carathéodory conditions and have the continuous derivatives of order 1 with respect to the first variable, and
There exists a matrix
such that for each
and for
, we have

There exists a matrix
such that for each
and for
and
, we have

There exists a matrix
such that for each
and for
and
, we have

For each
, the functions
exist, and 
Theorem 3. Suppose that assumptions (H1)-(H3) are satisfied. Then the system of integral equation (SIE) (2) has at least one solution in
if there is
such that
(3)and the matrix

converges to zero. Here

Proof. We define the operator
by

The proof will be broken up into several steps.
Step 1. Our first claim is to show that the operator
is well defined. Looking that for each
, the function
is measurable for any
. Also, for any
and
, we have

Then
has a measurable derivative. Now, we shall show that 
for any
. Using our hypotheses, for arbitrarily fixed
and
, we obtain

hence,

Also,

then

thus

this means that the operator
maps
into
.
Keeping in the mind that the vector
fulfills inequality (3), thus for all
,
(4)Due to (4), we derive that
is a mapping from
into
.
Step 2. Our claim here is to proof the continuity of
To this end, let 
be a convergence sequence to some
in 
Then for each
,

On the other hand, we have for each
,

Step 3. The operator
is G-set contractive with respect to
. Indeed, let
be a nonempty and bounded subset of
, and let
be such that
and
, and by applying the same procedure of the previous step we get


then

it follows that

thus

Since for each
are compact in
and
is compact in
, we have
. Then we obtain

Next, let us fix an arbitrary number
. Then, taking into account our hypotheses, for an arbitrary function
, we have

But for each 
when
, hence,

then
(5)By the same way we find for
,


hence,


so
(6)Now, by combining (5), (6) we find
Formula

Therefore, by the generalized Darbo fixed point Theorem 1 system (2) has at least one solution in
.
Example 1. Consider the following coupled functional integral equation:

Then

and we have

and we simply check that

and

Thus,

with

Furthermore,

then we can verify easily that

and

Hence,

It is easy to see that for each
satisfies assumption (H2)(d). Since we have 
. Then we obtain

By the same way we get

and

Furthermore, condition (H2)(d) can be easily verified. Moreover,
. Finally, the matrix

has two eigenvalues:
. Therefore,
converges to zero. All the conditions in Theorem 3 are satisfied, so system (7) has at least one solution in the space
, where
.
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