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The following material was created with the idea of being used for an introductory fractional calculus course. A recapitulation of the history of fractional calculus is presented, as well as the different attempts at fractional derivatives…
In this paper, we derive new estimates for the remainder term of the midpoint, trapezoid, and Simpson formulae for functions whose derivatives in absolute value at certain power are quasi-convex. Some applications to special means of real…
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…
Because of its ineffectiveness, the usual arithmetic Hilbert-Samuel formula is not applicable in the context of Diophantine Approximation. In order to overcome this difficulty, the present paper presents explicit estimates for arithmetic…
In this paper, using a pseudospectral approach, we develop operational matrices based on the shifted Chebyshev polynomials to approximate numerically Caputo fractional derivatives and Riemann-Liouville fractional integrals. In order to make…
Two approximations of the integral of a class of sinusoidal composite functions, for which an explicit form does not exist, are derived. Numerical experiments show that the proposed approximations yield an error that does not depend on the…
We set the main concepts for multiplicative fractional calculus. We define Caputo, Riemann and Letnikov multiplicative fractional derivatives and multiplicative fractional integrals and study some of their properties. Finally, the…
Asymptotic approximations of Jacobi polynomials are given in terms of elementary functions for large degree $n$ and parameters $\alpha$ and $\beta$. From these new results, asymptotic expansions of the zeros are derived and methods are…
We revisit a representation for the Riemann zeta function $\zeta(s)$ expressed in terms of normalised incomplete gamma functions given by the author and S. Cang in Methods Appl. Anal. {\bf 4} (1997) 449--470. Use of the uniform asymptotics…
First derivatives of the Whittaker function $\mathrm{M}_{\kappa ,\mu }\left(x\right) $ with respect to the parameters are calculated. Using the confluent hypergeometric function, these derivarives can be expressed as infinite sums of…
In this paper we consider the approximation of a function by its interpolating multilinear spline and the approximation of its derivatives by the derivatives of the corresponding spline. We derive formulas for the uniform approximation…
The variable change w=exp(u) is applied to establish novel integral representations of the incomplete gamma-function, hypergeometric F-function,confluent hypergeometric /Phi-function and beta-function, and to analyze these functionsas as…
The application of the approximation-operational approach to solving linear differential equations of fractional order with variable coefficients is considered. It is shown that the method can also be applied to solving differential…
The derivative expansion approach to the calculation of the interaction between two surfaces, is a generalization of the proximity force approximation, a technique of widespread use in different areas of physics. The derivative expansion…
Derivatives with respect to the parameters of the integral Mittag-Leffler function and the integral Wright function, recently introduced by us, are calculated. These derivatives can be expressed in the form of infinite sums of quotients of…
Two fractional two-phase Stefan-like problems are considered by using Riemann-Liouville and Caputo derivatives of order $\alpha \in (0, 1)$ verifying that they coincide with the same classical Stefan problem at the limit case when…
In this paper, we approximate numerically the solution of Caputo-type advection-diffusion equations of the form $D_t^{\alpha} u(t,x) = a_1(x)u_{xx}(t,x) + a_2(x)u_x(t,x) + a_3u(t,x) + a_4(t,x)$, where $D_t^{\alpha} u$ denotes the Caputo…
In this paper the singular Emden-Fowler equation of fractional order is introduced and a computational method is proposed for its numerical solution. For the approximation of the solutions we have used Boubaker polynomials and defined the…
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…
A fractional derivative is a temporally nonlocal operation which is computationally intensive due to inclusion of the accumulated contribution of function values at past times. In order to lessen the computational load while maintaining the…