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The Theory Of Discrete Fractional Calculus: Development And Application, Michael T. Holm
The Theory Of Discrete Fractional Calculus: Development And Application, Michael T. Holm
Department of Mathematics: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
The author's purpose in this dissertation is to introduce, develop and apply the tools of discrete fractional calculus to the arena of fractional difference equations. To this end, we develop the Fractional Composition Rules and the Fractional Laplace Transform Method to solve a linear, fractional initial value problem in Chapters 2 and 3. We then apply fixed point strategies of Krasnosel'skii and Banach to study a nonlinear, fractional boundary value problem in Chapter 4.
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