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Fractional calculus is an effective tool in incorporating the effects of non-locality and memory into physical models. In this regard, successful applications exist rang- ing from signal processing to anomalous diffusion and quantum…

General Physics · Physics 2014-08-26 S. S. Bayin , J. P. Krisch

The Liouville equation, first Bogoliubov hierarchy and Vlasov equations with derivatives of non-integer order are derived. Liouville equation with fractional derivatives is obtained from the conservation of probability in a fractional…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Vasily E. Tarasov

In the present work we consider the electromagnetic wave equation in terms of the fractional derivative of the Caputo type. The order of the derivative being considered is 0 <\gamma<1. A new parameter \sigma, is introduced which…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-09-01 J. F. Gómez , J. J. Rosales , J. J. Bernal , V. I. Tkach , M. Guía

It is well known that for every $f\in C^m$ there exists a polynomial $p_n$ such that $p^{(k)}_n\rightarrow f^{(k)}$, $k=0,\ldots,m$. Here we prove such a result for fractional (non-integer) derivatives. Moreover, a numerical method is…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2013-12-17 Hassan Khosravian-Arab , Delfim F. M. Torres

A class of linear evolutionary equations with material laws involving fractional time-derivatives is considered. The main result is well-posedness and causality for this problem class. The approach is illustrated with two examples: a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-04-10 Rainer Picard

The quantum Boltzmann equation, or Fokker-Planck equation, has been used to successfully explain a number of experiments in semiconductor optics in the past two decades. This paper reviews some of the developments of this work, including…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-11-18 D. W. Snoke

Fractional calculus allows one to generalize the linear, one-dimensional, diffusion equation by replacing either the first time derivative or the second space derivative by a derivative of fractional order. The fundamental solutions of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Francesco Mainardi , Paolo Paradisi , Rudolf Gorenflo

Fractional calculus has been used to describe physical systems with complexity. Here, we show that a fractional calculus approach can restore or include complexity in any physical systems that can be described by partial differential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-06 Kyle Rockwell , Ezio Iacocca

A fractional generalization of variations is used to define a stability of non-integer order. Fractional variational derivatives are suggested to describe the properties of dynamical systems at fractional perturbations. We formulate…

Classical Physics · Physics 2011-07-26 Vasily E. Tarasov

A spectral decomposition method is used to obtain solutions to a class of nonlinear differential equations. We extend this approach to the analysis of the fractional form of these equations and demonstrate the method by applying it to the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-08-14 Malgorzata Turalska , Bruce J. West

Fractional generalization of an exterior derivative for calculus of variations is defined. The Hamilton and Lagrange approaches are considered. Fractional Hamilton and Euler-Lagrange equations are derived. Fractional equations of motion are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Vasily E. Tarasov

The Fokker--Planck Equation can be used in a partially-coherent imaging context to model the evolution of the intensity of a paraxial x-ray wave field with propagation. This forms a natural generalisation of the transport-of-intensity…

Optics · Physics 2021-11-16 David M. Paganin , Kaye S. Morgan

We derive Taylor's Formula for conformable fractional derivatives. This is then employed to extend some recent and classical integral inequalities to the conformable fractional calculus, including the inequalities of Steffensen, Chebychev,…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2014-09-23 Douglas R. Anderson

We generalize the fractional Caputo derivative to the fractional derivative ${^CD^{\alpha,\beta}_{\gamma}}$, which is a convex combination of the left Caputo fractional derivative of order $\alpha$ and the right Caputo fractional derivative…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-01-16 Agnieszka B. Malinowska , Delfim F. M. Torres

This paper is devoted to the rigorous derivation of the macroscopic limit of a Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equation in which the Laplacian is replaced by a fractional Laplacian. The evolution of the density is governed by a fractional heat…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-28 Pedro Aceves-Sanchez , Ludovic Cesbron

In this paper we consider the gravitational field of fractal distribution of particles. To describe fractal distribution, we use the fractional integrals. The fractional integrals are considered as approximations of integrals on fractals.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 Vasily E. Tarasov

Fractional differential equations provide a tractable mathematical framework to describe anomalous behavior in complex physical systems, yet they introduce new sensitive model parameters, i.e. derivative orders, in addition to model…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-05 Ehsan Kharazmi , Mohsen Zayernouri

A generalization of exterior calculus is considered by allowing the partial derivatives in the exterior derivative to assume fractional orders. That is, a fractional exterior derivative is defined. This is found to generate new vector…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kathleen Cotrill-Shepherd , Mark Naber

Electrodynamics of composite materials with fractal geometry is studied in the framework of fractional calculus. This consideration establishes a link between fractal geometry of the media and fractional integro-differentiation. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-04-07 E. Baskin , A. Iomin

In this manuscript, we generalize F-calculus to apply it on fractal Tartan spaces. The generalized standard F-calculus is used to obtain the integral and derivative of the functions on the fractal Tartan with different dimensions. The…

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