holderian variational problems subject to integral constraints abstract we prove a necessary stationary condition for non differentiable isoperimetric variational problems with scale derivatives defined on the class of holder continuous functions

fractional variational problems depending on indefinite integrals abstract we obtain necessary optimality conditions for variational problems with a lagrangian depending on a caputo fractional derivative a fractional and an indefinite integral main results give fractional euler lagrange type equations and natural boundary conditions which provide a generalization of the previous results found in the literature isoperimetric problems problems with holonomic constraints and depending on higher order caputo derivatives as well as fractional lagrange problems are considered

fractional variational calculus and the transversality conditions this paper presents the euler lagrange equations and the transversality conditions for fractional variational problems the fractional derivatives are defined in the sense of riemann liouville and caputo the connection between the transversality conditions and the natural boundary conditions necessary to solve a fractional differential equation is examined it is demonstrated that fractional boundary conditions may be necessary even when the problem is defined in terms of the caputo derivative furthermore both fractional derivatives the riemann liouville and the caputo arise in the formulations even when the fractional variational problem is defined in terms of one fractional derivative only examples are presented to demonstrate the applications of the formulations

fuzzy nets and their application fuzzy net theory is enriched by the introduction of the fuzzy net of fuzzy sets the limsup liminf and limit of a fuzzy net of fuzzy sets are defined and their various properties are discussed alternative characterizations based on the notion of a fuzzy net are provided for several fuzzy topological concepts including open and closed fuzzy sets fuzzy continuity maps with closed fuzzy graph open fuzzy mapping etc thus the net theoretic approach is shown to be a promising tool in fuzzy topology

variational problems with fractional derivatives invariance conditions and nother s theorem abstract a variational principle for lagrangian densities containing derivatives of real order is formulated and the invariance of this principle is studied in two characteristic cases necessary and sufficient conditions for an infinitesimal transformation group basic nother s identity are obtained these conditions extend the classical results valid for integer order derivatives a generalization of nother s theorem leading to conservation laws for fractional euler lagrangian equation is obtained as well results are illustrated by several concrete examples finally an approximation of a fractional euler lagrangian equation by a system of integer order equations is used for the formulation of an approximated invariance condition and corresponding conservation laws

fractional variations for dynamical systems hamilton and lagrange approaches fractional generalization of an exterior derivative for calculus of variations is defined the hamilton and lagrange approaches are considered fractional hamilton and euler lagrange equations are derived fractional equations are obtained by fractional variation of lagrangian and hamiltonian that have only integer derivatives

fractional noether s theorem in the riesz caputo sense abstract we prove a noether s theorem for fractional variational problems with riesz caputo derivatives both lagrangian and hamiltonian formulations are obtained illustrative examples in the fractional context of the calculus of variations and optimal control are given

hamilton jacobi fractional mechanics abstract as a continuation of rabei et al work eqab m rabei khaled i nawafleh raed s hijjawi sami i muslih dumitru baleanu the hamilton formalism with fractional derivatives j math anal appl 327 2007 891 897 the hamilton jacobi partial differential equation is generalized to be applicable for systems containing fractional derivatives the hamilton jacobi function in configuration space is obtained in a similar manner to the usual mechanics two problems are considered to demonstrate the application of the formalism the result is found to be in exact agreement with agrawal s formalism

a fractional calculus of variations for multiple integrals with application to vibrating string we introduce a fractional theory of the calculus of variations for multiple integrals our approach uses the recent notions of riemann liouville fractional derivatives and integrals in the sense of jumarie the main results provide fractional versions of the theorems of green and gauss fractional euler lagrange equations and fractional natural boundary conditions as an application we discuss the fractional equation of motion of a vibrating string

new applications of l nets in l fuzzy multifunctions in this paper we will give new applications of l net in l fuzzy multifunctions using l net we will further study l fuzzy continuous almost continuous and r continuous multifunctions some interesting characterizations are obtained

variational problems with fractional derivatives euler lagrange equations we generalize the fractional variational problem by allowing the possibility that the lower bound in the fractional derivative does not coincide with the lower bound of the integral that is minimized also for the standard case when these two bounds coincide we derive a new form of euler lagrange equations we use approximations for fractional derivatives in the lagrangian and obtain the euler lagrange equations which approximate the initial euler lagrange equations in a weak sense

extending bauer s corollary to fractional derivatives we comment on the method of dreisigmeyer and young j phys a math gen 368297 to model nonconservative systems with fractional derivatives it was previously hoped that using fractional derivatives in an action would allow us to derive a single retarded equation of motion using a variational principle it is proven that under certain reasonable assumptions the method of dreisigmeyer and young fails

linear transformations of vector arma processes abstract linear transformations of stochastic processes are used in many ways in economic analyses for example when linear aggregates or subprocesses are considered it is demonstrated that a linear transformation of a vector arma process is again an arma process and conditions for stationarity are given three different predictors for a linearly transformed process are compared forecasting the original process and transforming the predictions is superior to forecasting the transformed process directly and to transforming univariate predictions of the components of the original process conditions for equality of the three different forecasts are provided

modified riemann liouville derivative and fractional taylor series of nondifferentiable functions further results the paper gives some results and improves the derivation of the fractional taylor s series of nondifferentiable functions obtained recently in the form f g h e a h ad g a f g 0 a 1 where e a is the mittag leffier function here one defines fractional derivative as the limit of fractional difference and by this way one can circumvent the problem which arises with the definition of the fractional derivative of constant using riemann liouville definition as a result a modified riemann liouville definition is proposed which is fully consistent with the fractional difference definition and avoids any reference to the derivative of order greater than the considered one s in order to support this f taylor series one shows how its first term can be obtained directly in the form of a mean value formula the fractional derivative of the dirac delta function is obtained together with the fractional taylor s series of multivariate functions the relation with irreversibility of time and symmetry breaking is exhibited and to some extent this f taylor s series generalizes the fractional mean value formula obtained a few years ago by kolwantar

theory of topological molecular lattices abstract the aim of this paper is to bring the theories of point set topology fuzzy topology and l fuzzy topology into a unified theory the theory of topological molecular lattices for this purpose we first introduce the concepts of molecule for completely distributive complete lattice molecular lattice for short the cotopology on it and the concept of remote neighborhoods of molecules therefrom we develop the theory of pointwise topology on molecular lattices

higher order hahn s quantum variational calculus abstract we prove a necessary optimality condition of euler lagrange type for quantum variational problems involving hahn s derivatives of higher order

fractional variational calculus with classical and combined caputo derivatives abstract we give a proper fractional extension of the classical calculus of variations by considering variational functionals with a lagrangian depending on a combined caputo fractional derivative and the classical derivative euler lagrange equations to the basic and isoperimetric problems as well as transversality conditions are proved

fractional embedding of differential operators and lagrangian systems this paper is a contribution to the general program of embedding theories of dynamical systems following our previous work on the stochastic embedding theory developed with darses c r acad sci ser i math 342 333 2006 preprint ihes 06 27 p 87 2006 we define the fractional embedding of differential operators and ordinary differential equations we construct an operator combining in a symmetric way the left and right riemann liouville fractional derivatives for lagrangian systems our method provides a fractional euler lagrange equation we prove developing the corresponding fractional calculus of variations that such equation can be derived via a fractional least action principle we then obtain naturally a fractional noether theorem and a fractional hamiltonian formulation of fractional lagrangian systems all these constructions are coherents i e the embedding procedure is compatible with the fractional calculus of variations we then extend our results to cover the ostrogradski

fuzzy topology and fuzzy multifunctions the fundamental concept of a fuzzy set was first introduced by zadeh in his classical paper 141 since then work has been done by many authors in several directions which has resulted in the formation of a new mathematical field called fuzzy mathematics the theory of fuzzy topological spaces is a branch of such mathematics chang in 2 was the first to introduce the notion of fuzzy topology several others continued the work in this area for example see 12 131 we remark that general point set topology can be regarded as a special case of fuzzy topology where all membership functions are just characteristic functions in this paper we introduce several fuzzy topological concepts and examine their properties our basic tool in that process is the notion of the fuzzy neighborhood of a point introduced by warren in ill we also introduce the notion of fuzzy multifunctions which we strongly believe will be useful in the study of fuzzy games and general fuzzy optimization problems we study the continuity and measurability properties of these multifunctions also we introduce linear fuzzy multifunctions and study their properties in the light of the recent work of katsaras 5 katsaras and liu s and lowen 9 on fuzzy vector spaces

a fractional variational iteration method for solving fractional nonlinear differential equations recently fractional differential equations have been investigated by employing the famous variational iteration method however all the previous works avoid the fractional order term and only handle it as a restricted variation a fractional variational iteration method was first proposed in g c wu e w m lee fractional variational iteration method and its application phys lett a 374 2010 2506 2509 and gave a generalized lagrange multiplier in this paper two fractional differential equations are approximately solved with the fractional variational iteration method

the hamilton formalism with fractional derivatives recently the traditional calculus of variations has been extended to be applicable for systems containing fractional derivatives in this paper the passage from the lagrangian containing fractional derivatives to the hamiltonian is achieved the hamilton s equations of motion are obtained in a similar manner to the usual mechanics in addition the classical fields with fractional derivatives are investigated using hamiltonian formalism two discrete problems and one continuous are considered to demonstrate the application of the formalism the results are obtained to be in exact agreement with agrawal s formalism

on almost continuous and weakly continuous fuzzy multifunctions abstract the paper deals with the study of almost continuous and weakly continuous multifunctions in fuzzy setting several characterizations and certain properties of these fuzzy multifunctions along with their mutal relationships are established attempts are also made to correlate them with fuzzy lower and upper semi continuous multifunctions

the characterizations of semi continuous and irresolute order homomorphisms on fuzzes abstract the concepts of semi continuous and irresolute order homomorphisms on fuzzes were introduced in j jianghan petroleum institute 2 1988 96 97 in this paper we first present the theory with respect to s convergence s convergence of molecular nets and ideals on fuzzes secondly we introduce the notions of strong semicontinuity strong irresoluteness and s irresoluteness on fuzzes then we systematically study the characterizations of these notions with the aid of the s convergence s convergence of molecular nets and ideals and give the relations of them

fractional actionlike variational problems fractional actionlike variational problems have recently gained importance in studying dynamics of nonconservative systems in this note we address multidimensional fractional actionlike problems of the calculus of variations

nonconservative lagrangian mechanics a generalized function approach we reexamine the problem of having nonconservative equations of motion arise from the use of a variational principle in particular a formalism is developed that allows the inclusion of fractional derivatives this is done within the lagrangian framework by treating the action as a volterra series it is then possible to derive two equations of motion one of these is an advanced equation and the other is retarded

nonconservative lagrangian and hamiltonian mechanics traditional lagrangian and hamiltonian mechanics cannot be used with nonconservative forces such as friction a method is proposed that uses a lagrangian containing derivatives of fractional order a direct calculation gives an euler lagrange equation of motion for nonconservative forces conjugate momenta are defined and hamilton s equations are derived using generalized classical mechanics with fractional and higher order derivatives the method is applied to the case of a classical frictional force proportional to velocity textcopyright 1996 the american physical society

a formulation of noether s theorem for fractional problems of the calculus of variations abstract fractional or non integer differentiation is an important concept both from theoretical and applicational points of view the study of problems of the calculus of variations with fractional derivatives is a rather recent subject the main result being the fractional necessary optimality condition of euler lagrange obtained in 2002 here we use the notion of euler lagrange fractional extremal to prove a noether type theorem for that we propose a generalization of the classical concept of conservation law introducing an appropriate fractional operator