Functional calculus and a link to fractional calculus. (Q4438577)

The authors give a well readable survey on their functional calculus theory of fractional integration and differentiation. In contrast to the Riemann--Liouville appproach, here the lower limit of integration is not \(0\) (or another finite real number) but \(-\infty\), and the analytical treatment is not via the Laplace but via the Fourier transform. This is particularly appropriate for evolution problems with linear combinations of fractional derivatives of different orders where the starting time is not \(0\) but \(-\infty\). After sketching the \(L_2\) approach and its limitations, the authors extend the theory to distributional spaces, hereby using the Fourier--Laplace transform. Particular attention is paid to the question of causality in evolution problems.