On the Unique Solvability of Incomplete Cauchy Type Problems for a Class of Multi-Term Equations with the Riemann–Liouville Derivatives

Incomplete Cauchy-type problems are considered for linear multi-term equations solved with respect to the highest derivative in Banach spaces with fractional Riemann–Liouville derivatives and with linear closed operators at them. Some new existence and uniqueness theorems for solutions are presented explicitly and the analyticity of the solutions of the homogeneous equations are also shown. The asymmetry of the Cauchy-type problem under study is expressed in the presence of a so-called defect, which shows the number of lower-order initial conditions that should not be set when setting the problem. As applications, our abstract results are used in the study of a class of initial-boundary value problems for multi-term equations with Riemann–Liouville derivatives in time and with polynomials of a self-adjoint elliptic differential operator with respect to spatial variables.

On the solutions of some fractional q-differential equations with the Riemann-Liouville fractional q-derivative

This paper is devoted to explicit and numerical solutions to linear fractional q-difference equations and the Cauchy type problem associated with the Riemann-Liouville fractional q-derivative in q-calculus. The approaches based on the reduction to Volterra q-integral equations, on compositional relations, and on operational calculus are presented to give explicit solutions to linear q-difference equations. For simplicity, we give results involving fractional q-difference equations of real order a > 0 and given real numbers in q-calculus. Numerical treatment of fractional q-difference equations is also investigated. Finally, some examples are provided to illustrate our main results in each subsection.

A spherical rearrangement proof of the stability of a Riesz-type inequality and an application to an isoperimetric type problem

We prove the stability of the ball as global minimizer of an attractive shape functional under volume constraint, by means of mass transportation arguments. The stability exponent is $1/2$ and it is sharp. Moreover, we use such stability result together with the quantitative (possibly fractional) isoperimetric inequality to prove that the ball is a global minimizer of a shape functional involving both an attractive and a repulsive term with a sufficiently large fixed volume and with a suitable (possibly fractional) perimeter penalization.