Fractional number operator and associated fractional diffusion equations (Q1664405)

The author studies the fractional number operator as an analog of the finite-dimensional fractional Laplacian and gives a relation with the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. Using a semigroup approach, the solution of the Cauchy problem associated to the fractional number operator is presented. Further, by using the Mittag-Leffler function and the Laplace transform, the solutions of the Caputo time fractional diffusion equation and Riemann-Liouville time fractional diffusion equation in infinite dimensions associated to the fractional number operator are derived.