Riemann–Liouville integral

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The Riemann–Liouville integral is a fundamental operator in fractional calculus that generalizes the concept of an n-fold repeated integral to non-integer (fractional) orders.

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instanceOf concept in fractional calculus
fractional integral operator
mathematical operator
actsOn locally integrable functions
suitable functions
appearsIn fractional Sobolev spaces
theory of fractional-order systems
assumes sufficient regularity of the integrand
belongsTo integral transforms with weakly singular kernels
comparedWith Hadamard fractional integral
Weyl fractional integral
domain interval [a,b]
field fractional calculus
mathematical analysis
generalizes Cauchy formula for repeated integration
n-fold repeated integral
hasLimitingCase identity operator when α → 0^+
hasNotation I_{-b}^{α}
I_{a+}^{α}
hasOrder real order α > 0
hasVariant Riemann–Liouville integral self-linksurface differs
surface form: left-sided Riemann–Liouville integral

Riemann–Liouville integral self-linksurface differs
surface form: right-sided Riemann–Liouville integral
introducedIn 19th century
isDefinedBy convolution with power-law kernel
isLinear true
isToolFor defining fractional derivatives
solving fractional integral equations
kernelType power-law kernel (x-t)^{α-1}
namedAfter Bernhard Riemann
Joseph Liouville
parameter lower limit a
order α
property depends on entire past history from a to x
nonlocal operator
reducesTo n-fold classical integral when α is a positive integer n
relatedTo Caputo derivative
Riemann–Liouville integral self-linksurface differs
surface form: Riemann–Liouville derivative

fractional differential equations
satisfies semigroup property in the order α under suitable conditions
usedFor defining fractional powers of operators
usedIn anomalous diffusion models
control theory
modeling memory effects
signal processing
viscoelasticity
usesFunction Gamma function

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Bernhard Riemann knownFor Riemann–Liouville integral
Riemann–Liouville integral hasVariant Riemann–Liouville integral self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: left-sided Riemann–Liouville integral
Riemann–Liouville integral hasVariant Riemann–Liouville integral self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: right-sided Riemann–Liouville integral
Riemann–Liouville integral relatedTo Riemann–Liouville integral self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Riemann–Liouville derivative
Caputo derivative basedOn Riemann–Liouville integral
this entity surface form: Riemann–Liouville derivative
Caputo derivative relatedTo Riemann–Liouville integral
Weyl fractional integral relatedTo Riemann–Liouville integral
this entity surface form: Riemann–Liouville fractional integral
Hadamard fractional integral relatedTo Riemann–Liouville integral
this entity surface form: Riemann–Liouville fractional integral
Hadamard fractional integral contrastsWith Riemann–Liouville integral
this entity surface form: Riemann–Liouville integral on additive domains