Author | West, Bruce J. author |
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Title | Physics of Fractal Operators [electronic resource] / by Bruce J. West, Mauro Bologna, Paolo Grigolini |
Imprint | New York, NY : Springer New York, 2003 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-21746-8 |
Descript | X, 354 p. 23 illus. online resource |
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 Greenโs 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 Lรฉvy 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 Lรฉvy 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