Monotonicity analysis of fractional proportional differences (Q2188000)

Summary: In this work, the nabla discrete new Riemann-Liouville and Caputo fractional proportional differences of order \(0<\varepsilon<1\) on the time scale \(\mathbb{Z}\) are formulated. The differences and summations of discrete fractional proportional are detected on \(\mathbb{Z}\), and the fractional proportional sums associated to \((_c^R \nabla^{\varepsilon, \rho} \chi)(z)\) with order \(0<\varepsilon<1\) are defined. The relation between nabla Riemann-Liouville and Caputo fractional proportional differences is derived. The monotonicity results for the nabla Caputo fractional proportional difference are proved; specifically, if \((_{c - 1}^R \nabla^{\varepsilon, \rho} \chi)(z)>0\) then \(\chi(z)\) is \(\varepsilon\rho\)-increasing, and if \(\chi(z)\) is strictly increasing on \(\mathbb{N}_c\) and \(\chi(c)>0\), then \((_{c - 1}^R \nabla^{\varepsilon, \rho} \chi)(z)>0\). As an application of our findings, a new version of the fractional proportional difference of the mean value theorem (MVT) on \(\mathbb{Z}\) is proved.