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The general linear quaternion function of degree one is a sum of terms with quaternion coefficients on the left and right. The paper considers the canonic form of such a function, and builds on the recent work of Todd Ell, who has shown…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2008-01-21 Stephen J. Sangwine

The conformable derivative has been promoted in numerous publications as a new fractional derivative operator. This article provides a critical reassessment of this claim. We demonstrate that the conformable derivative is not a fractional…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Aziz El Ghazouani , Fouad Ibrahim Abdou Amir , Khoulane Mohamed , M'hamed Elomari

Differential operators usually result in derivatives expressed as a ratio of differentials. For all but the simplest derivatives, these ratios are typically not algebraically manipulable, but must be held together as a unit in order to…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2022-10-18 Maria Isabelle Fite , Jonathan Bartlett

The partial Hamiltonian systems of the form $\dot q^i=\frac{\partial H}{\partial p_i}, \dot p^i=-\frac{\partial H}{\partial q_i}+\Gamma^i(t,q^i,p_i)$ arise widely in different fields of the applied mathematics. The partial Hamiltonian…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-08-24 Rehana Naz

Rational function approximations find applications in many areas including macro-modeling of high-frequency circuits, model order reduction for controller design, interpolation and extrapolation of system responses, surrogate models for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-10 Andrew Ma , Arif Ege Engin

The Green's function method which has been originally proposed for linear systems has several extensions to the case of nonlinear equations. A recent extension has been proposed to deal with certain applications in quantum field theory. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-06-26 Marco Frasca , Asatur Khurshudyan

We propose a nonparametric method to explicitly model and represent the derivatives of smooth underlying trajectories for longitudinal data. This representation is based on a direct Karhunen--Lo\`eve expansion of the unobserved derivatives…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-07-17 Xiongtao Dai , Hans-Georg Müller , Wenwen Tao

Fast algorithms for arithmetic on real or complex polynomials are well-known and have proven to be not only asymptotically efficient but also very practical. Based on Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), they for instance multiply two polynomials…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Martin Ziegler

Fractional programming (FP) is a branch of mathematical optimization that deals with the optimization of ratios. It is an invaluable tool for signal processing and machine learning, because many key metrics in these fields are fractionally…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Kaiming Shen , Wei Yu

A general explicit form for generating functions for approximating fractional derivatives is derived. To achieve this, an equivalent characterisation for consistency and order of approximations established on a general generating function…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-31 W. A. Gunarathna , H. M. Nasir , W. B. Daundasekera

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

Cartesian reverse derivative categories (CRDCs) provide an axiomatic generalization of the reverse derivative, which allows generalized analogues of classic optimization algorithms such as gradient descent to be applied to a broad class of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-26 Tyler Hanks , James Fairbanks , Matthew Klawonn

This article proposes new perspectives for developing derivative based numerical algorithms, supported by the introduction of a generalized derivative operators. It demonstrates that these operators have the potential to enhance and extend…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Flavio Barbosa , Fernando Nogueira

This paper explores a method for solving constrained optimization problems when the derivatives of the objective function are unavailable, while the derivatives of the constraints are known. We allow the objective and constraint function to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-20 Melody Qiming Xuan , Jorge Nocedal

New real structure-preserving decompositions are introduced to develop fast and robust algorithms for the (right) eigenproblem of general quaternion matrices. Under the orthogonally JRS-symplectic transformations, the Francis JRS-QR step…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-10 Zhigang Jia , Musheng Wei , Meixiang Zhao , Yong Chen

Fractional variation is defined as the limit of the difference quotient of the increments of a function and its argument raised to a fractional power. Fractional velocity can be suitable for characterizing singular behavior of derivatives…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-05-01 Dimiter Prodanov

Generalized linear models (GLMs) form one of the most popular classes of models in statistics. The gamma variant is used, for instance, in actuarial science for the modelling of claim amounts in insurance. A flaw of GLMs is that they are…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-02-12 Philippe Gagnon , Yuxi Wang

Functions of several quaternion variables are investigated and integral representation theorems for them are proved. With the help of them solutions of the $\tilde \partial $-equations are studied. Moreover, quaternion Stein manifolds are…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2007-05-23 S. V. Ludkovsky

The anomaly implies an obstruction to a fully chiral covariant calculation of the effective action in the abnormal parity sector of chiral theories. The standard approach then is to reconstruct the anomalous effective action from its…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-03-24 L. L. Salcedo

A general representation of the quaternion gradients presented in the literature is proposed, and an universal update equation for QLMS-like algorithms is obtained. The general update law is used to study the convergence of widely linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-10-13 Fernando G. Almeida Neto , Vítor H. Nascimento