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Methods from the geometry of nonholonomic manifolds and Lagrange-Finsler spaces are applied in fractional calculus with Caputo derivatives and for elaborating models of fractional gravity and fractional Lagrange mechanics. The geometric…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-06-03 Dumitru Baleanu , Sergiu I. Vacaru

We study the fractional gravity for spacetimes with non-integer dimensions. Our constructions are based on a geometric formalism with the fractional Caputo derivative and integral calculus adapted to nonolonomic distributions. This allows…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-04-20 Sergiu I. Vacaru

The goal of this paper is to encode equivalently the fractional Lagrange dynamics as a nonholonomic almost Kahler geometry. We use the fractional Caputo derivative generalized for nontrivial nonlinear connections (N-connections) originally…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-08-19 Dumitru Baleanu , Sergiu I. Vacaru

The main goal of this work is to perform a nonolonomic deformation (Fedosov type) quantization of fractional Lagrange geometries. The constructions are provided for a (fractional) almost Kahler model encoding equivalently all data for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-01-05 Dumitru Baleanu , Sergiu I. Vacaru

We study fractional configurations in gravity theories and Lagrange mechanics. The approach is based on Caputo fractional derivative which gives zero for actions on constants. We elaborate fractional geometric models of physical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-09-20 Dumitru Baleanu , Sergiu I. Vacaru

We survay our recent results on fractional gravity theory. It is also provided the Main Theorem on encoding of geometric data (metrics and connections in gravity and geometric mechanics) into solitonic hierarchies. Our approach is based on…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-03-13 Dumitru Baleanu , Sergiu I. Vacaru

We give a proper fractional extension of the classical calculus of variations by considering variational functionals with a Lagrangian depending on a combined Caputo fractional derivative and the classical derivative. Euler-Lagrange…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-11-11 Tatiana Odzijewicz , Agnieszka B. Malinowska , Delfim F. M. Torres

The aim of this paper is to study certain problems of calculus of variations, that are dependent upon a Lagrange function on a Caputo-type fractional derivative. This type of fractional operator is a generalization of the Caputo and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-24 Ricardo Almeida

The fractional calculus is useful to model non-local phenomena. We construct a method to evaluate the fractional Caputo derivative by means of a simple explicit quadratic segmentary interpolation. This method yields to numerical resolution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-26 Alberto Ferrari , Manuel Gadella , Luis Lara , Eduardo Santillan Marcus

A fractional Hamiltonian formalism is introduced for the recent combined fractional calculus of variations. The Hamilton-Jacobi partial differential equation is generalized to be applicable for systems containing combined Caputo fractional…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-06-19 Agnieszka B. Malinowska , Delfim F. M. Torres

Main results and techniques of the fractional calculus of variations are surveyed. We consider variational problems containing Caputo derivatives and study them using both indirect and direct methods. In particular, we provide necessary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-12 Ricardo Almeida , Delfim F. M. Torres

We review some recent results of the fractional variational calculus. Necessary optimality conditions of Euler-Lagrange type for functionals with a Lagrangian containing left and right Caputo derivatives are given. Several problems are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-11-29 Ricardo Almeida , Agnieszka B. Malinowska , Delfim F. M. Torres

In this paper the generalisation of previous author's formulation of fractional continuum mechanics to the case of anisotropic non-locality is presented. The considerations include the review of competitive formulations available in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-08-03 Wojciech Sumelka

We obtain necessary optimality conditions for variational problems with a Lagrangian depending on a Caputo fractional derivative, a fractional and an indefinite integral. Main results give fractional Euler-Lagrange type equations and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-11-11 Ricardo Almeida , Shakoor Pooseh , Delfim F. M. Torres

The book contains a collection of works on Riemann-Cartan and metric-affine manifolds provided with nonlinear connection structure and on generalized Finsler-Lagrange and Cartan-Hamilton geometries and Clifford structures modelled on such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 S. Vacaru , P. Stavrinos , E. Gaburov , D. Gonţa

Recently, the research community has been exploring fractional calculus to address problems related to cosmology; in this approach, the gravitational action integral is altered, leading to a modified Friedmann equation, then the resulting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-07 Bayron Micolta-Riascos , Alfredo D. Millano , Genly Leon , Cristián Erices , Andronikos Paliathanasis

In this paper we develop a fractional Hamiltonian formulation for dynamic systems defined in terms of fractional Caputo derivatives. Expressions for fractional canonical momenta and fractional canonical Hamiltonian are given, and a set of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Dumitru Baleanu , Om P. Agrawal

We obtain Euler-Lagrange equations, transversality conditions and a Noether-like theorem for Herglotz-type variational problems with Lagrangians depending on generalized fractional derivatives. As an application, we consider a damped…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-19 Roberto Garra , Giorgio S. Taverna , Delfim F. M. Torres

This paper presents a relativistic version of Newtonian Fractional-Dimension Gravity (NFDG), an alternative gravitational model recently introduced and based on the theory of fractional-dimension spaces. This extended version - Relativistic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-26 Gabriele U. Varieschi

The aim of this paper is to bring together two approaches to non-conservative systems -- the generalized variational principle of Herglotz and the fractional calculus of variations. Namely, we consider functionals whose extrema are sought,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-06-04 Ricardo Almeida , Agnieszka B. Malinowska
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