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We introduce a fractional calculus on time scales using the theory of delta (or nabla) dynamic equations. The basic notions of fractional order integral and fractional order derivative on an arbitrary time scale are proposed, using the…

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We introduce the the fractional Laplacian on a subgraph of a graph with Dirichlet boundary condition. For a lattice graph, we prove the upper and lower estimates for the sum of the first $k$ Dirichlet eigenvalues of the fractional…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-06 Jiaxuan Wang

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

After motivating the need of a multiscale version of fractional calculus in quantum gravity, we review current proposals and the program to be carried out in order to reach a viable definition of scale-dependent fractional operators. We…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-06-22 Gianluca Calcagni

The short note here is to give a few heuristic arguments on the weird looking fractional Laplacian operator. This is certainly going to expand the vision of a reader who is looking to develope a taste for research in this direction.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-10 Debajyoti Choudhuri

We present a numerical method for the approximation of the inverse of the fractional Laplacian $(-\Delta)^{s}$, based on its spectral definition, using rational functions to approximate the fractional power $A^{-s}$ of a matrix $A$, for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-22 José A. Carrillo , Stefano Fronzoni , Yuji Nakatsukasa , Endre Süli

We consider a fractional Laplace equation and we give a self-contained elementary exposition of the representation formula for the Green function on the ball. In this exposition, only elementary calculus techniques will be used, in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-05 Claudia Bucur

Some mathematical models of applied problems lead to the need of solving boundary value problems with a fractional power of an elliptic operator. In a number of works, approximations of such a nonlocal operator are constructed on the basis…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Petr N. Vabishchevich

We describe a highly efficient numerical scheme for finding two-sided bounds for the eigenvalues of the fractional Laplace operator (-Delta)^{alpha/2} in the unit ball D in R^d, with a Dirichlet condition in the complement of D. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-17 Bartłomiej Dyda , Alexey Kuznetsov , Mateusz Kwaśnicki

In this article we show that the fractional Laplacian in $R^{2}$ can be factored into a product of the divergence operator, a Riesz potential operator, and the gradient operator. Using this factored form we introduce a generalization of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-03 Xiangcheng Zheng , V. J. Ervin , Hong Wang

This paper presents the fractional trigonometric functions in complex-valued space and proposes a short outline of local fractional calculus of complex function in fractal spaces.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-10-31 Xiao-Jun Yang

In this study the general formula for differential and integral operations of fractional calculus via fractal operators by the method of cumulative diminution and cumulative growth is obtained. The under lying mechanism in the success of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Fevzi Buyukkilic , Zahide Ok Bayrakdar , Dogan Demirhan

We prove necessary optimality conditions, in the class of continuous functions, for variational problems defined with Jumarie's modified Riemann-Liouville derivative. The fractional basic problem of the calculus of variations with free…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-05-10 Ricardo Almeida , Delfim F. M. Torres

We consider the spectral definition of the fractional Laplace operator and study a basic linear problem involving this operator and singular forcing. In two dimensions, we introduce an appropriate weak formulation in fractional Sobolev…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Enrique Otarola , Abner J. Salgado

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

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

The applicability of the factorization method is extended to the case of quantum fractional-differential Hamiltonians. In contrast with the conventional factorization, it is shown that the `factorization energy' is now a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-05-05 Fernando Olivar-Romero , Oscar Rosas-Ortiz

In this paper, we consider the following nonlinear system involving the fractional Laplacian \begin{equation} \left\{\begin{array}{ll} (-\Delta)^{s} u (x)= f(u,\,v), \\ (-\Delta)^{s} v (x)= g(u,\,v), \end{array} \right. (1) \end{equation}…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-28 Ran Zhuo , Yingshu Lü

Two approximations, derived from continuous expansions of Riemann-Liouville fractional derivatives into series involving integer order derivatives, are studied. Using those series, one can formally transform any problem that contains…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-05-10 Shakoor Pooseh , Ricardo Almeida , Delfim F. M. Torres

We investigate some basic applications of Fractional Calculus (FC) to Newtonian mechanics. After a brief review of FC, we consider a possible generalization of Newton's second law of motion and apply it to the case of a body subject to a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-07-02 Gabriele U. Varieschi