A new theory of fractional differential calculus

DOI10.1142/S0219530521500019zbMATH Open1479.26007arXiv2007.10244OpenAlexW3130233725MaRDI QIDQ5153352FDOQ5153352

Authors: Xiaobing Feng, Mitchell Sutton 

Publication date: 29 September 2021

Published in: Analysis and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper presents a self-contained new theory of weak fractional differential calculus in one-dimension. The crux of this new theory is the introduction of a weak fractional derivative notion which is a natural generalization of integer order weak derivatives; it also helps to unify multiple existing fractional derivative definitions and characterize what functions are fractionally differentiable. Various calculus rules including a fundamental theorem calculus, product and chain rules, and integration by parts formulas are established for weak fractional derivatives. Additionally, relationships with classical fractional derivatives and detailed characterizations of weakly fractional differentiable functions are also established. Furthermore, the notion of weak fractional derivatives is also systematically extended to general distributions instead of only to some special distributions. This new theory lays down a solid theoretical foundation for systematically and rigorously developing new theories of fractional Sobolev spaces, fractional calculus of variations, and fractional PDEs as well as their numerical solutions in subsequent works. This paper is a concise presentation of the materials of Sections 1-4 and 6 of reference [9].

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.10244

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zbMATH Keywords

fundamental theorem of calculusweak fractional derivativesfractional differential calculusfractional derivatives of distributionsproduct and chain rules

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fractional derivatives and integrals (26A33)

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