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Despite their diversity, many of the most prominent candidate theories of quantum gravity share the property to be effectively lower-dimensional at small scales. In particular, dimension two plays a fundamental role in the finiteness of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Gianluca Calcagni

We construct a theory of fields living on continuous geometries with fractional Hausdorff and spectral dimensions, focussing on a flat background analogous to Minkowski spacetime. After reviewing the properties of fractional spaces with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-01-19 Gianluca Calcagni

To remove the confusion of concepts about different sorts of geographical space and dimension, a new framework of space theory is proposed in this paper. Based on three sets of fractal dimensions, the geographical space is divided into…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-12-21 Yanguang Chen

Within the framework of fractional calculus with variable order the evolution of space in the adiabatic limit is investigated. Based on the Caputo definition of a fractional derivative using the fractional quantum harmonic oscillator a…

General Physics · Physics 2013-11-26 R. Herrmann

Fractional diffusion equations replace the integer-order derivatives in space and time by their fractional-order analogues. They are used in physics to model anomalous diffusion. This paper develops strong solutions of space-time fractional…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-12-19 Zhen-Qing Chen , Mark M. Meerschaert , Erkan Nane

We informally review the construction of spacetime geometries with multifractal and, more generally, multiscale properties. Based on fractional calculus, these continuous spacetimes have their dimension changing with the scale; they display…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-10-10 Gianluca Calcagni

It is shown by very simple arguments that the observed 3+1 dimensionality of spacetime may be understood on the basis of four fundamental principles of physics namely, Causality, General Covariance, Gauge Invariance and Renormalizability.…

General Physics · Physics 2013-03-25 Rajat K. Pradhan

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

Over the past two decades or so, it has become increasingly appparent that, out to quite large distances, galaxies are distributed in a quasi-fractal fashion with fractal dimension $D \approx 2$. Whether or not this behaviour continues onto…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D F Roscoe

Observations of galaxies over large distances reveal the possibility of a fractal distribution of their positions. The source of fractal behavior is the lack of a length scale in the two body gravitational interaction. However, even with…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bruce N. Miller , Jean-Louis Rouet , Emmanuel Le Guirriec

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…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2015-09-09 Ehab Malkawi

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

In this article, we construct the multivariate fractal interpolation functions for a given data points and explore the existence of $\alpha$-fractal function corresponding to the multivariate continuous function defined on $[0,1]\times…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Vishal Agrawal , Megha Pandey , Tanmoy Som

This paper introduces a possible alternative model of gravity based on the theory of fractional-dimension spaces and its applications to Newtonian gravity. In particular, Gauss's law for gravity as well as other fundamental classical laws…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-09 Gabriele U. Varieschi

A solution to the more than 300-years old problem of geometric and physical interpretation of fractional integration and differentiation (i.e., integration and differentiation of an arbitrary real order) is suggested for the…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Igor Podlubny

A simple multifractal coarsening model is suggested that can explain the observed dynamical behavior of the fractal dimension in a wide range of coarsening fractal systems. It is assumed that the minority phase (an ensemble of droplets) at…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Avner Peleg , Baruch Meerson

For fractional derivatives and time-fractional differential equations, we construct a framework on the basis of the operator theory in fractional Sobolev spaces. Our framework provides a feasible extension of the classical Caputo and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-24 Masahiro Yamamoto

We clarify what it means to have a spacetime fractal geometry in quantum gravity and show that its properties differ from those of usual fractals. A weak and a strong definition of multi-scale and multi-fractal spacetimes are given together…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-07 Gianluca Calcagni

We show that the uncertainty in distance and time measurements found by the heuristic combination of quantum mechanics and general relativity is reproduced in a purely classical and flat multi-fractal spacetime whose geometry changes with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-22 Gianluca Calcagni , Michele Ronco

We consider dynamical systems that are described by fractional power of coordinates and momenta. The fractional powers can be considered as a convenient way to describe systems in the fractional dimension space. For the usual space the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Vasily E. Tarasov