On discrete tempered fractional calculus and its application

Abstract

Discrete tempered fractional calculus, as a fresh generalization of discrete fractional calculus, takes both the advantages of discrete fractional calculus and its tempered fractional counterpart, which has great potential value in the interpretation of special physical phenomena. However, its essential characteristics are far from clarifying. Meanwhile, the primary goal of this study is to enrich the vital characteristics of discrete tempered fractional calculus in the presence of required domains for diverse scenarios. First, the reciprocal properties of the tempered fractional summation and difference operators, as well as the discrete version of Taylor’s formula, are established. The formulae of the discrete Laplace transform for discrete tempered fractional calculus are also determined with the aid of discrete convolution. Then, the well-posedness of tempered fractional difference equation is investigated, along with the exploration on the corresponding Volterra summation equation, and the existence, uniqueness and continuous dependence as well. In the aspect of application, the criterion of Ulam–Hyers stability of tempered fractional difference equation on finite time interval is obtained in light of a novel discrete Gronwall inequality. Besides, all examples are showed to verify the effectiveness of the main results.