This article investigates a class of discrete nabla fractional operators by using the discrete nabla convolution theorem. Inspired by this, we define the discrete generalized nabla fractional sum and differences of Riemann-Liouville and Caputo types. In the process, we give a relationship between the generalized discrete delta fractional operators introduced by Ferreira \cite{Ferreira} and the proposed discrete generalized nabla fractional operators via the dual identities. Also, we present some test examples to justify the relationship. Moreover, we prove the fundamental theorem of calculus for the defined discrete generalized nabla fractional operators. Inspired by the above operators, we define discrete generalized nabla Atangana-Baleanu-like (or Caputo-Fabrizio-like) fractional sum and differences at the end of the article.
Here we define a Caputo like discrete nabla fractional difference and we produce discrete nabla fractional Taylor formulae for the first time. We estimate their remaiders. Then we derive related discrete nabla fractional Opial, Ostrowski, Poincare and Sobolev type inequalities.
We extend the definitions of $\nabla-$convex and completely monotonic functions for two variables. Some general identities of Popoviciu type for sum $\sum \sum p_{ij} f(y_i, z_j)$ and integrals $\int P(y)f(y) dy$, $\int \int P(y,z) f(y,z) dy \, dz$ are deduced. Using obtained identities, positivity of these expressions are characterized for higher order $\nabla-$convex and completely monotonic functions. Some applications in terms of generalized Cauchy means and exponential convexity are given.
We introduce a more general discrete fractional operator, given by convex linear combination of the delta and nabla fractional sums. Fundamental properties of the new fractional operator are proved. As particular cases, results on delta and nabla discrete fractional calculus are obtained.
In this article, we illustrate the asymptotic behaviour of exponential functions of nabla fractional calculus. For this purpose, we propose a novel matrix technique to compute these functions numerically.
This paper gives particular emphasis to the nabla tempered fractional calculus, which involves the multiplication of the rising function kernel with tempered functions, and provides a more flexible alternative with considerable promise for practical applications. Some remarkable inequalities for such nabla fractional calculus are developed and analyzed, which greatly enrich the mathematical theory of nabla tempered fractional calculus. Numerical results confirm the validity of the developed properties once again, which also reveals that the introduction of tempered function provides high value…
Discrete mathematics, the study of finite structures, is one of the fastest growing areas in mathematics and optimization. Discrete fractional calculus (DFC) theory that is an important subject of the fractional calculus includes the difference of fractional order. In present paper, we mention the radial Schr{ö}dinger equation which is a physical and singular differential equation. And, we can obtain the particular solutions of this equation by applying nabla ($ \nabla $) discrete fractional operator. This operator gives successful results for the singular equations, and solutions have fractio…
In this article, we consider a nabla fractional boundary value problem with general boundary conditions. Brackins \& Peterson \cite{Br} gave an explicit expression for the corresponding Green's function. Here, we show that this Green's function is nonnegative and obtain an upper bound for its maximum value. Since the expression for the Green's function is complicated, derivation of its properties may not be straightforward. For this purpose, we use a few properties of fractional nabla Taylor monomials. Using the Green's function, we will then develop a Lyapunov-type inequality for the nabla fr…
Different fractional difference types of Euler-Lagrange equations are obtained within Riemann and Caputo by making use of different versions of integration by part forumlas in fractional difference calculus. An example is presented to illustrate part of the results.
We consider the discrete, fractional operator $\left(L_a^νx\right) (t) := \nabla [p(t) \nabla_{a^*}^νx(t)] + q(t) x(t-1)$ involving the nabla Caputo fractional difference, which can be thought of as an analogue to the self-adjoint differential operator. We show that solutions to difference equations involving this operator have expected properties, such as the form of solutions to homogeneous and nonhomogeneous equations. We also give a variation of constants formula via a Cauchy function in order to solve initial value problems involving $L_a^ν$. We also consider boundary value problems of an…
In this paper we develop the theory of initial and boundary value problems for the self-adjoint nabla fractional difference equation containing a Caputo fractional nabla difference that is given by \[ \nabla[p(t+1)\nabla_{a*}^νx(t+1)] + q(t)x(t) = h(t), \] where $0 < ν\leq 1$. We give an introduction to the nabla fractional calculus with Caputo fractional differences. We investigate properties of the specific self-adjoint nabla fractional difference equation given above. We prove existence and uniqueness theorems for both initial and boundary value problems under appropriate conditions. We int…
Recently, some authors have proved monotonicity results for delta and nabla fractional differences separately. In this article, we use dual identities relating delta and nabla fractional difference operators to prove shortly the monotonicity properties for the (left Riemann) nabla fractional differences using the corresponding delta type properties. Also, we proved some monotonicity properties for the Caputo fractional differences. Finally, we use the $Q-$operator dual identities to prove monotonicity results for the right fractional difference operators.
In this paper, we reformulate certain nabla fractional difference equations which had been investigated by other researchers. The previous results seem to be incomplete. By using Contraction Mapping Theorem, we establish conditions under which solutions exist and are unique and have certain asymptotic properties.
We formulate a new class of fractional difference and sum operators, study their fundamental properties, and find their discrete Laplace transforms. The method depends on iterating the fractional sum operators corresponding to fractional differences with discrete Mittag-Leffler kernels. The iteration process depends on the binomial theorem. We note in particular the fact that the iterated fractional sums have a certain semigroup property and hence the new introduced iterated fractional difference-sum operators have this semigroup property as well.
We study the Sobolev regularity on the sphere $\mathbb{S}^d$ of the uncentered fractional Hardy-Littlewood maximal operator $\widetilde{\mathcal{M}}_β$ at the endpoint $p=1$, when acting on polar data. We first prove that if $q=\frac{d}{d-β}$, $0<β<d$ and $f$ is a polar $W^{1,1}(\mathbb{S}^d)$ function, we have $$\|\nabla \widetilde{\mathcal{M}}_βf\|_q\lesssim_{d,β}\|\nabla f\|_1.$$ We then prove that the map $$f\mapsto \big | \nabla \widetilde{\mathcal{M}}_βf \big |$$ is continuous from $W^{1,1}(\mathbb{S}^d)$ to $L^q(\mathbb{S}^d)$ when restricted to polar data. Our methods allow us to give …
In this article we focus our attention on the relation between a singular linear discrete time system and a singular linear system of fractional nabla difference equations whose coefficients are square constant matrices. By using matrix pencil theory, first we give necessary and sufficient condition to obtain a unique solution for the continuous time model. After by assuming that the input vector changes only at equally space sampling instants, we shall derive the corresponding discrete time state equation which yield the values of the solutions of the continuous time model which will connect …
We will use analytic function theory and Fourier analysis to establish a characterization for some classical umbral calculus, which will focus on the generalization of the evaluation function. Although we cannot cover all the umbral calculus people care about, the part about Bernoulli numbers can still answer an open question about fractional sums raised by Müller and Schleicher in 2005 and synthesize some common analysis results. We will only develop the results which are sufficient to serve the purpose of this article, but at the same time, we will briefly mention some possible extensions.
We introduce a natural definition for sums of the form \[ \sum_{ν=1}^x f(ν) \] when the number of terms x is a rather arbitrary real or even complex number. The resulting theory includes the known interpolation of the factorial by the gamma function or Euler's little-known formula \sum_{ν=1}^{-1/2} \frac 1ν= -2\ln 2. Many classical identities like the geometric series and the binomial theorem nicely extend to this more general setting. Sums with a fractional number of terms are closely related to special functions, in particular the Riemann and Hurwitz zeta functions. A number of results about…
In this article we prove that if the $q-$fractional operator $(~_{q}\nabla_{qa}^αy)(t)$ of order $0<α\leq 1$ , $0<q<1$ and starting at some $qa \in T_q=\{q^k: k \in \mathbb{Z}\}\cup \{0\},~~a>0$ is positive such that $y(a) \geq 0$, then $y(t)$ is $c_q(α)-$increasing, $c_q(α)=\frac{1-q^α}{1-q}q^{1-α}$. Conversely, if y(t) is increasing and $y(a)\geq 0$, then $(~_{q}\nabla_{qa}^αy)(t)\geq 0$. As an application, we proved a $q-$fractional version of the Mean-Value Theorem.
We prove upper and lower bounds for certain sums of products of fractional parts by using majoring and minorizing functions from Fourier analysis. In special cases the upper bounds are sharp if there exist counterexamples to the Littlewood conjecture in Diophantine approximation. We introduce a generalization of such counterexamples which we call strongly badly approximable matrices. And we prove a transference principle for strongly badly approximable matrices.
In this paper we prove new $(\ell^p, \ell^q)$ bounds for a discrete fractional integral operator by applying techniques motivated by the circle method of Hardy and Littlewood to the Fourier multiplier of the operator. From a different perspective, we describe explicit interactions between the Fourier multiplier and mean values of Weyl sums. These mean values express the average behaviour of the number $r_{s,k}(l)$ of representations of a positive integer $l$ as a sum of $s$ positive $k$-th powers. Recent deep results within the context of Waring's problem and Weyl sums enable us to prove a fur…
We introduce a fractional calculus on time scales using the theory of delta (or nabla) dynamic equations. The basic notions of fractional order integral and fractional order derivative on an arbitrary time scale are proposed, using the inverse Laplace transform on time scales. Useful properties of the new fractional operators are proved.
Starting from a small number of well-motivated axioms, we derive a unique definition of sums with a noninteger number of addends. These "fractional sums" have properties that generalize well-known classical sum identities in a natural way. We illustrate how fractional sums can be used to derive infinite sum and special functions identities; the corresponding proofs turn out to be particularly simple and intuitive.
We establish that the map $f\mapsto |\nabla \mathcal{M}_αf|$ is continuous from $W^{1,1}(\mathbb{R}^d)$ to $L^{q}(\mathbb{R}^d)$, where $α\in (0,d)$, $q=\frac{d}{d-α}$ and $\mathcal{M}_α$ denotes either the centered or non-centered fractional Hardy--Littlewood maximal operator. In particular, we cover the cases $d >1$ and $α\in (0,1)$ in full generality, for which results were only known for radial functions.
A discrete version of the symmetric duality of Caputo-Torres, to relate left and right Riemann-Liouville and Caputo fractional differences, is considered. As a corollary, we provide an evidence to the fact that in case of right fractional differences, one has to mix between nabla and delta operators. As an application, we derive right fractional summation by parts formulas and left fractional difference Euler-Lagrange equations for discrete fractional variational problems whose Lagrangians depend on right fractional differences.
We introduce a nabla, a delta, and a symmetric fractional calculus on arbitrary nonempty closed subsets of the real numbers. These fractional calculi provide a study of differentiation and integration of noninteger order on discrete, continuous, and hybrid settings. Main properties of the new fractional operators are investigated, and some fundamental results presented, illustrating the interplay between discrete and continuous behaviors.
Let $0<α<d$ and $1\leq p<d/α$. We present a proof that for all $f\in W^{1,p}(\mathbb{R}^d)$ both the centered and the uncentered Hardy-Littlewood fractional maximal operator $\mathcal M_αf$ are weakly differentiable and $ \|\nabla\mathcal M_αf\|_{p^*} \leq C_{d,α,p} \|\nabla f\|_p , $ where $ p^* = (p^{-1}-α/d)^{-1} . $ In particular it covers the endpoint case $p=1$ for $0<α<1$ where the bound was previously unknown. For $p=1$ we can replace $W^{1,1}(\mathbb{R}^d)$ by $\mathrm{BV}(\mathbb{R}^d)$. The ingredients used are a pointwise estimate for the gradient of the fractional maximal function…
Very recently, some authors have studied new types of fractional derivatives whose kernels are nonsingular. In this article, we study Sturm-Liouville Equations ($SLEs$) in the frame of fractional operators with Mittag-Leffler kernels. We formulate some Fractional Sturm-Liouville Problems ($FSLPs$) with the diffferential part containing the left and right sided derivatives. We investigate the self-adjointness, eigenvalue and eigenfunction properties of the corresponding Fractional Sturm-Liouville Operators ($FSLOs$) by using fractional integration by parts formulas. The nabla discrete version o…
