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Local Fractional Derivatives and Fractal Functions of Several Variables

Mathematical Physics 2008-11-06 v1 math.MP

Abstract

The notion of a local fractional derivative (LFD) was introduced recently for functions of a single variable. LFD was shown to be useful in studying fractional differentiability properties of fractal and multifractal functions. It was demonstrated that the local Holder exponent/ dimension was directly related to the maximum order for which LFD existed. We have extended this definition to directional-LFD for functions of many variables and demonstrated its utility with the help of simple examples.

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@article{arxiv.physics/9801010,
  title  = {Local Fractional Derivatives and Fractal Functions of Several Variables},
  author = {Kiran M. Kolwankar and Anil D. Gangal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/9801010},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

4 pages, Revtex, appeared in proceedings of 'Fractals in Engineering' Arcachon, France (1997)