Fractional difference inequalities of Gronwall-Bellman type (Q2860948)

The authors consider fractional difference inequalities of Gronwall-Bellman type NEWLINE\[NEWLINE\nabla^{\alpha}u(n+1) \leq a(n)u(n)+b(n), \quad \forall n \in \mathbb{N}^+, NEWLINE\]NEWLINE and NEWLINE\[NEWLINE\begin{multlined} u(n) \leq u(0) \prod_{j=0}^{n-1}\big [ 1+B(n-1, \alpha; j)a(j)\big ]\\ + \sum_{j=0}^{n-1} B(n-1, \alpha; j)b(j) \prod_{k=j+1}^{n-1} \big [ 1+B(n-1, \alpha;j)a(k)\big ],\end{multlined}NEWLINE\]NEWLINE where \(u(n), a(n) \) and \(b(n) \) are real-valued nonnegative functions defined on \( \mathbb{N}_0^+ \) and \( \alpha \in \mathbb{R}\), \(0<\alpha\leq 1 \). They construct some fractional difference inequalities of Gronwall-Bellman type which are providing explicit bounds for the solutions of fractional difference equations.