Mathematics Subject Classification: 26A33 (main), 35A22, 78A25, 93A30The generalization of the concept of derivative to non-integer values goes back to the beginning of the theory of differential calculus. Nevertheless, its application in physics and engineering remained unexplored up to the last two decades. Recent research motivated the establishment of strategies taking advantage of the Fractional Calculus (FC) in the modeling and control of many phenomena. In fact, many classical engineering...

We present a new method to study the classical fractional integrals of Weyl. This new approach basically consists in considering these operators in the largest space where they make sense. In particular, we construct a theory of fractional integrals of Weyl by studying these operators in an appropriate Fréchet space. This is a function space which contains the $L^p\left(ℝ\right)$-spaces, and it appears in a natural way if we wish to identify these fractional operators with fractional powers of a suitable non-negative...

We consider the summation equation, for $t\in {[\mu -2,\mu +b]}_{{\mathbb{N}}_{\mu -2}}$, $$\begin{array}{ccc}\hfill y\left(t\right)={\gamma }_1\left(t\right)H_1\left(\sum _{i=1}^n{a}_{i}y\left({\xi }_i\right)\right)& +{\gamma }_2\left(t\right)H_2\left(\sum _{i=1}^m{b}_{i}y\left({\zeta }_i\right)\right)\hfill & \hfill +\lambda \sum _{s=0}^{b}G(t,s)f(s+\mu -1,y(s+\mu -1))\end{array}$$ in the case where the map $(t,s)\mapsto G(t,s)$ may change sign; here $\mu \in (1,2]$ is a parameter, which may be understood as the order of an associated discrete fractional boundary value problem. In spite of the fact that $G$ is allowed to change sign, by introducing a new cone we are able to establish the existence of at least one positive solution to this problem by imposing some growth conditions on the functions $H_1$ and $H_2$. Finally, as an application of the abstract existence result,...

We study the local and global existence of mild solutions to a class of semilinear fractional Cauchy problems in the α-norm assuming that the operator in the linear part is the generator of a compact analytic C₀-semigroup. A suitable notion of mild solution for this class of problems is also introduced. The results obtained are a generalization and continuation of some recent results on this issue.

In this paper we use the upper and lower solutions method to investigate the existence of solutions of a class of impulsive partial hyperbolic differential inclusions at fixed moments of impulse involving the Caputo fractional derivative. These results are obtained upon suitable fixed point theorems.

Mathematics Subject Classification 2010: 26A33, 33E12.The new result presented here is a theorem involving series in the three-parameter Mittag-Leffler function. As a by-product, we recover some known results and discuss corollaries. As an application, we obtain the solution of a fractional differential equation associated with a RLC electrical circuit in a closed form, in terms of the two-parameter Mittag-Leffler function.

We use the Laplace transform method to solve certain families of fractional order differential equations. Fractional derivatives that appear in these equations are defined in the sense of Caputo fractional derivative or the Riemann-Liouville fractional derivative. We first state and prove our main results regarding the solutions of some families of fractional order differential equations, and then give examples to illustrate these results. In particular, we give the exact solutions for the vibration...

In this work, the fractional Lie symmetry method is applied for symmetry analysis of time fractional Kupershmidt equation. Using the Lie symmetry method, the symmetry generators for time fractional Kupershmidt equation are obtained with Riemann-Liouville fractional derivative. With the help of symmetry generators, the fractional partial differential equation is reduced into the fractional ordinary differential equation using Erdélyi-Kober fractional differential operator. The conservation laws are...

2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 26A33, 33E12, 33C60, 44A10, 45K05, 74D05,The aim of this tutorial survey is to revisit the basic theory of relaxation processes governed by linear differential equations of fractional order. The fractional derivatives are intended both in the Rieamann-Liouville sense and in the Caputo sense. After giving a necessary outline of the classica theory of linear viscoelasticity, we contrast these two types of fractiona derivatives in their ability to take into...

In this paper, we give a generalization of Fefferman-Stein inequality for the fractional one-sided maximal operator: $${\int }_{-\infty }^{+\infty }{M}_{\alpha }^{+}\left(f\right){\left(x\right)}^{p}w\left(x\right)dx\le A_p{\int }_{-\infty }^{+\infty }{\left|f\left(x\right)\right|}^p{M}_{\alpha p}^{-}\left(w\right)\left(x\right)dx,$$ where $0<\alpha <1$ and $1<p<1/\alpha$. We also obtain a substitute of dual theorem and weighted norm inequalities for the one-sided fractional integral $I_{\alpha }^{+}$.