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Fractional mechanics describes both conservative and non-conservative systems. The fractional variational principles gained importance in studying the fractional mechanics and several versions are proposed. In classical mechanics the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-08-14 Dumitru Baleanu , Sami I. Muslih , Eqab M. Rabei

A discrete version of the symmetric duality of Caputo-Torres, to relate left and right Riemann-Liouville and Caputo fractional differences, is considered. As a corollary, we provide an evidence to the fact that in case of right fractional…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2017-06-16 Thabet Abdeljawad , Delfim F. M. Torres

In this paper, we deal with a Cauchy problem for a nonlinear fractional differential equation with the Caputo derivative of order $\alpha \in (0, 1)$. As initial data, we consider a pair consisting of an initial point, which does not…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-23 Mikhail I. Gomoyunov

We introduce a class of fractional Dirac type operators with time variable coefficients by means of a Witt basis, the Djrbashian-Caputo fractional derivative and the fractional Laplacian, both operators defined with respect to some given…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2023-10-04 Joel E. Restrepo , Michael Ruzhansky , Durvudkhan Suragan

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

Historically the fractional calculus concept works an extended idea based on the question asked by Guillaume de L'H\^opital to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in 1695 about the notation ${d^nf}/{dx^n}$ for the derivative operator "What if…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 J. J. A. de Oliveira , C. F. L. Godinho

Diffusive representations of fractional derivatives have proven to be useful tools in the construction of fast and memory efficient numerical methods for solving fractional differential equations. A common challenge in many of the known…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-11 Kai Diethelm

Recently, we have demonstrated that there exists a possible relationship between q-deformed algebras in two different contexts of Statistical Mechanics, namely, the Tsallis' framework and the Kaniadakis' scenario, with a local form of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-03-18 José Weberszpil , José Abdalla Helayël-Neto

The link between the treatments of constrained systems with fractional derivatives by using both Hamiltonian and Lagrangian formulations is studied. It is shown that both treatments for systems with linear velocities are equivalent.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 S. Muslih , D. Baleanu

We study gradient flows of general functionals with linear growth with very weak assumptions. Classical results concerning characterisation of solutions require differentiability of the Lagrangian, as for the time-dependent minimal surface…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-19 Wojciech Górny , José M. Mazón

We develop a variational approach to the minimization problem of functionals of the type $\frac12\left\lVert \nabla \phi \right\rVert^2_2 + \beta \left\lVert \phi \right\rVert_1$ constrained by $\left\lVert \phi \right\rVert_2 = 1$ which is…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-14 Alexander Hach

We develop a non-anticipating calculus of variations for functionals on a space of laws of continuous semi-martingales, which extends the classical one. We extend Hamilton's least action principle and Noether's theorem to this generalized…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-01-22 Ana Bela Cruzeiro , Rémi Lassalle

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 paper is devoted to the development of control procedures with a guide for conflict-controlled dynamical systems described by ordinary fractional differential equations with the Caputo derivative of an order $\alpha \in (0, 1).$ For the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-10 Mikhail Gomoyunov

In this paper, we study the Lagrangian functions for a class of second-order differential systems arising from physics. For such systems, we present necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of Lagrangian functions. Based on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Yihan Shen , Yajuan Sun

We revisit the problem of approximating minimizers of certain convex functionals subject to a convexity constraint by solutions of fourth order equations of Abreu type. This approximation problem was studied in previous works of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-12 Nam Q. Le

This paper presents the Euler-Lagrange equations for fractional variational problems with multiple integrals. The fractional Noether-type theorem for conservative and nonconservative generalized physical systems is proved. Our approach uses…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-10-09 Agnieszka B. Malinowska

In this work we consider the following class of fractional $p\&q$ Laplacian problems \begin{equation*} (-\Delta)_{p}^{s}u+ (-\Delta)_{q}^{s}u + V(\varepsilon x) (|u|^{p-2}u + |u|^{q-2}u)= f(u) \mbox{ in } \mathbb{R}^{N}, \end{equation*}…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-01 Claudianor O. Alves , Vincenzo Ambrosio , Teresa Isernia

The transformation of the partial fractional derivatives under spatial rotation in $R^2$ are derived for the Riemann-Liouville and Caputo definitions. These transformation properties link the observation of physical quantities, expressed…

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