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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

We establish Maximum Principles which apply to vectorial approximate minimizers of the general integral functional of Calculus of Variations. Our main result is a version of the Convex Hull Property. The primary advance compared to results…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-04-22 Nikolaos I. Katzourakis

It has been a long time issue in statistical physics how to combine reversible microscopic equations with irreversible macroscopic behavior. Recently, Evans and Searles have suggested causality as the key concept for a solution to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. Pietsch

In this paper a new approach is proposed to quantize mechanical systems whose equations of motion can not be put into Hamiltonian form. This approach is based on a new type of variational principle, which is adopted to a describe a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-04-04 Tianshu Luo , Yimu Guo

We prove Euler-Lagrange and natural boundary necessary optimality conditions for problems of the calculus of variations which are given by a composition of nabla integrals on an arbitrary time scale. As an application, we get optimality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-09-27 Agnieszka B. Malinowska , Delfim F. M. Torres

The notion of fractional dynamics is related to equations of motion with one or a few terms with derivatives of a fractional order. This type of equation appears in the description of chaotic dynamics, wave propagation in fractal media, and…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Vasily E. Tarasov , George M. Zaslavsky

Using the fact that extremum of variation of generalized action can lead to the fractional dynamics in the case of systems with long-range interaction and long-term memory function, we consider two different applications of the action…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Vasily E. Tarasov , George M. Zaslavsky

Lagrangian formalism is established for differential equations with special functions of mathematical physics as solutions. Formalism is based on either standard or non-standard Lagrangians. This work shows that the procedure of deriving…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-08-24 Zdzislaw Musielak , Niyousha Davachi , Marialis Rosario-Franco

This paper presents a theory of systemic undecidability, reframing incomputability as a structural property of systems rather than a localized feature of specific functions or problems. We define a notion of causal embedding and prove a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Seth Bulin

A discrete theory for implicit nonholonomic Lagrangian systems undergoing elastic collisions is developed. It is based on the discrete Lagrange-d'Alembert-Pontryagin variational principle and the dynamical equations thus obtained are the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-03-26 Álvaro Rodríguez Abella , Leonardo Colombo

We formulate a stochastic least-action principle for solutions of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equation, which formally reduces to Hamilton's principle for the incompressible Euler solutions in the case of zero viscosity. We use this…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-10-07 Gregory L. Eyink

In this paper, we study problems of minimization of a functional depending on the fractional Caputo derivative of order $0<\alpha \leq 1$ and the fractional Riemann- Liouville integral of order $\beta > 0$ at fixed endpoints. A fractional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-11 Shakir Sh. Yusubov , Shikhi Sh. Yusubov , Elimhan N. Mahmudov

An explanation of the mechanism of irreversible dynamics was offered. The explanation was obtained within the framework of laws of classical mechanics by the expansion of Hamilton formalism. Such expansion consisted in adaptation of it to…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. M. Somsikov

In this work we propose a new and more general approach to the calculus of variations on time scales that allows to obtain, as particular cases, both delta and nabla results. More precisely, we pose the problem of minimizing or maximizing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-08-30 Ewa Girejko , Agnieszka B. Malinowska , Delfim F. M. Torres

The Principle of Least Action is used with a simple Lagrangian density, involving second-order derivatives of the wave function, to obtain the Schroedinger equation. A Hamiltonian density obtained from this simple Lagrangian density shows…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-12-12 Donald H. Kobe

We consider two evolution equations involving space fractional Laplace operator of order $0<s<1$. We first establish some existence and uniqueness results for the considered evolution equations. Next, we give some comparison theorems and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-28 Cyrille Kenne , Gisèle Mophou

We study variational systems for space curves, for which the Lagrangian or action principle has a Euclidean symmetry, using the Rotation Minimising frame, also known as the Normal, Parallel or Bishop frame. Such systems have previously been…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-06-05 E. L. Mansfield , A. Rojo-Echeburua

We derive a consistent differential representation for the dynamics of a self-financing portfolio for different hedging strategies. In the basis of the derivation there is the so called "retarded action principle", which represents the…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2016-06-23 Dmitry Lesnik

We investigate the existence of minimizers of variational models with Eulerian-Lagrangian formulations. We consider energy functionals depending on the deformation of a body, defined on its reference configuration, and an Eulerian map…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Marco Bresciani , Manuel Friedrich , Carlos Mora-Corral

We approach uncertainty principles of Cowling-Price-Heis-\\enberg-type as a variational principle on modulation spaces. In our discussion we are naturally led to compact localization operators with symbols in modulation spaces. The optimal…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-21 Nuno Costa Dias , Franz Luef , João Nuno Prata
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