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Recently, we have proposed a new diffusive representation for fractional derivatives and, based on this representation, suggested an algorithm for their numerical computation. From the construction of the algorithm, it is immediately…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-12 Kai Diethelm

In this paper, we consider the two-dimensional surface quasi-geostrophic equation with fractional horizontal dissipation and fractional vertical thermal diffusion. Global existence of classical solutions is established when the dissipation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-09 Zhuan Ye

Starting from a general classical model of many interacting particles we present a well defined step by step procedure to derive the continuum-mechanics equations of nonlinear elasticity theory with fluctuations which describe the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-02 Rudolf Haussmann

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

The logical line is traced of formulation of theory of mechanics founded on the basic correlations of mathematics of hypercomplex numbers and associated geometric images. Namely, it is shown that the physical equations of quantum, classical…

General Physics · Physics 2016-05-10 Alexander P. Yefremov

A mechanical model is introduced for predicting the initiation and evolution of complex fracture patterns without the need for a damage variable or law. The model, a continuum variant of Newton's second law, uses integral rather than…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-02 Robert Lipton , Stewart Silling , Richard Lehoucq

Fractional classical mechanics has been introduced and developed as a classical counterpart of the fractional quantum mechanics. Lagrange, Hamilton and Hamilton-Jacobi frameworks have been implemented for the fractional classical mechanics.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-02-05 Nick Laskin

In this paper, we propose a fractional time extension of the Quan tum Master Equation. We introduce a Caputo-type fractional derivative in time as an extension of the exponential decay of the Lindblad framework through the incorporation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Taylan Demir

We show a relation between fractional calculus and fractals, based only on physical and geometrical considerations. The link has been found in the physical origins of the power-laws, ruling the evolution of many natural phenomena, whose…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-08-20 Salvatore Butera , Mario Di Paola

Over the recent decades, diverse formalisms have emerged that are adopted to approach complex systems. Amongst those, we may quote the q-calculus in Tsallis' version of Non-Extensive Statistics with its undeniable success whenever applied…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-08-08 J. Weberszpil , Matheus Jatkoske Lazo , J. A. Helayël-Neto

Since the seminal work of Emmy Noether it is well know that all conservations laws in physics, \textrm{e.g.}, conservation of energy or conservation of momentum, are directly related to the invariance of the action under a family of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-16 Gastão S. F. Frederico , Matheus J. Lazo

Integer-order differential operators were originally used to describe local and isotropic effects, in both space and time. However, in fields like biology, the modelling of complex phenomena with spatial heterogeneity necessitates more…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Cypres Verbeeck , Nikolaos Sfakianakis

This work is devoted to the study of the existence of solutions to nonlocal equations involving the fractional Laplacian. These equations have a variational structure and we find a nontrivial solution for them using the Mountain Pass…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-30 Giovanni Molica Bisci , Dušan Repovš

A Compact Introduction to Fractional Calculus is presented including basic definitions, fractional differential equations and special functions.

History and Overview · Mathematics 2023-01-03 Alexander I. Zhmakin

A thermomechanical, polar continuum formulation under finite strains is proposed for anisotropic materials using a multiplicative decomposition of the deformation gradient. First, the kinematics and conservation laws for three dimensional,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Reza Ghaffari , Roger A. Sauer

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

The main goal of this paper is to introduce a new fractional anisotropic Sobolev space with variable exponent where the basic qualitative properties (completeness, separability, reflexivity, ...) are established, including the continuous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-07 Elhoussine Azroul , Abdelkrim Barbara , Nezha Kamali , Mohammed Shimi

This paper provides a new model to compute the fractal dimension of a subset on a generalized-fractal space. Recall that fractal structures are a perfect place where a new definition of fractal dimension can be given, so we perform a…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2010-07-23 M. A. Sánchez-Granero , Manuel Fernández-Martínez

We consider the fractional oscillator being a generalization of the conventional linear oscillator in the framework of fractional calculus. It is interpreted as an ensemble average of ordinary harmonic oscillators governed by stochastic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-15 Aleksander Stanislavsky

This is a first study of the cosmology of classical fractional gravity, a nonlocal proposal endowed with self-adjoint fractional d'Alembertian operators which serves as the basis for an ultraviolet-complete theory of quantum gravity. We…

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