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Fractional Calculus of Variations: a novel way to look at it

Optimization and Control 2019-08-27 v2 Classical Analysis and ODEs

Abstract

In this work we look at the original fractional calculus of variations problem in a somewhat different way. As a simple consequence, we show that a fractional generalization of a classical problem has a solution without any restrictions on the derivative-order α\alpha.

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@article{arxiv.1809.02250,
  title  = {Fractional Calculus of Variations: a novel way to look at it},
  author = {Rui A. C. Ferreira},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.02250},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

Minor changes of the first version. To be published in Fractional Calculus and Applied Analysis