Fractional Laplacian matrix on the finite periodic linear chain and its periodic Riesz fractional derivative continuum limit

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/48/29/295202MaRDI QIDQ5500802zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors T. Michelitsch, B. Collet, Andrzej F. Nowakowski, Franck C. G. A. Nicolleau

Publication date 10 August 2015

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.5904

zbMATH Keywords

continuum limit of fractional discrete modelsdiscrete fractional operators on periodic finite chainsfinite domain fractional Laplacian operatorfractional discrete approachesfractional lattice modelsLévy flights on finite latticespower law matrix functionRiesz fractional derivative

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Representation theory of lattices (06B15) Fractional derivatives and integrals (26A33) Fractional partial differential equations (35R11) Continuum limits in quantum field theory (81T27) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B41)

Abstract: The 1D discrete fractional Laplacian operator on a cyclically closed (periodic) linear chain with finitenumber $N$ of identical particles is introduced. We suggest a "fractional elastic harmonic potential", and obtain the $N$-periodic fractionalLaplacian operator in the form of a power law matrix function for the finite chain ($N$ arbitrary not necessarily large) in explicit form.In the limiting case $Nightarrowinfty$ this fractional Laplacian matrix recovers the fractional Laplacian matrix ofthe infinite chain.The lattice model contains two free material constants, the particle mass $mu$ and a frequency$Omeg{a}_{alpha}$.The "periodic string continuum limit" of the fractional lattice model is analyzed where lattice constant $hightarrow0$and length $L=Nh$ of the chain ("string") is kept finite: Assuming finiteness of the total mass and totalelastic energy of the chain in the continuum limit leads to asymptotic scaling behavior for $hightarrow0$ of thetwo material constants,namely $musimh$ and $Omeg{a}_{alpha}^{2}sim{h}^{-alpha}$. In this way we obtain the $L$-periodic fractional Laplacian (Riesz fractional derivative) kernel in explicit form.This $L$-periodic fractional Laplacian kernel recovers for $Lightarrowinfty$the well known 1D infinite space fractional Laplacian (Riesz fractional derivative) kernel. When the scaling exponentof the Laplacian takesintegers, the fractional Laplacian kernel recovers, respectively, $L$-periodic and infinite space (localized) distributionalrepresentations of integer-order Laplacians.The results of this paper appear to beuseful for the analysis of fractional finite domain problems for instance in anomalous diffusion (L'evy flights), fractional Quantum Mechanics,and the development of fractional discrete calculus on finite lattices.

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