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Physics of Fractal Operators

This text describes the statistcal behavior of complex systems and shows how the fractional calculus can be used to model the behavior. The discussion emphasizes physical phenomena whose evolution is best described using the fractional calculus, such as systems with long-range spatial interactions o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: West, Bruce, Bologna, Mauro (Author), Grigolini, Paolo (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer New York 2003, 2003
Edition:1st ed. 2003
Series:Institute for Nonlinear Science
Subjects:
Quantum Physics
Complex Systems
Dynamical Systems
System Theory
Mathematical Physics
Theoretical, Mathematical And Computational Physics
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Non-differentiable processes
  • 1.1 Classical mechanics
  • 1.2 Langevin equation
  • 1.3 Comments on the physics of the fractional calculus
  • 1.4 Commentary
  • 2 Failure of traditional models
  • 2.1 Fractals; geometric and otherwise
  • 2.2 Generalized Weierstrass function
  • 2.3 Fractional operators
  • 2.4 Intervals of the generalized Weierstrass function
  • 2.5 Commentary
  • 3 Fractional dynamics
  • 3.1 Elementary properties of fractional derivatives
  • 3.2 The generalized exponential functions
  • 3.3 Parametric derivatives
  • 3.4 Commentary
  • 4 Fractional Fourier transforms
  • 4.1 A brief review of Fourier analysis
  • 4.2 Linear fields
  • 4.3 Fourier transforms in the fractional calculus
  • 4.4 Generalized Fourier transform
  • 4.5 Commentary
  • 5 Fractional Laplace transforms
  • 5.1 Solving differential equations
  • 5.2 Generalized exponentials
  • 5.3 Fractional Green’s functions
  • 5.4 Commentary
  • 6 Fractional randomness
  • 6.1 Ordinary random walk
  • 6.2 Continuous-time random walk
  • 6.3 Fractional random walks
  • 6.4 Fractal stochastic time series
  • 6.5 Evolution of probability densities
  • 6.6 Langevin equation with Lévy statistics
  • 6.7 Commentary
  • 7 Fractional Rheology
  • 7.1 History and definitions
  • 7.2 Fractional relaxation
  • 7.3 Path integrals
  • 7.4 Commentary
  • 8 Fractional stochastics
  • 8.1 Fractional stochastic equations
  • 8.2 Memory kernels
  • 8.3 The continuous master equation
  • 8.4 Back to Langevin
  • 9 The ant in the gurge metaphor
  • 9.1 Lévy statistics and renormalization.:
  • 9.2 An ad hoc derivation
  • 9.3 Fractional eigenvalue equation
  • 9.4 Fractional stochastic oscillator
  • 9.5 Fractional propagation-transport equation
  • 9.6 Commentary
  • 10 Appendix
  • 10.1 Special functions
  • 10.2 Fractional derivatives
  • 10.3 Mellin transforms

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