Introduction
The fractal derivative or Hausdorff derivative, is a relatively new concept of differentiation that extends Leibniz’s derivative for discontinuous fractal media. In the literature, there are various definitions of this new concept. For instance, in 2006 Chen introduced the concept of the Hausdorff derivative of a function with respect to a fractal measure , where is the order of the fractal derivative. A treatment of a more general case goes back to the work of Jeffery in 1958.
Fractal calculus is extremely effective in branches such as fluid mechanics where hierarchical or porous media, turbulence or aquifers present fractal properties, which do not necessarily follow a Euclidean geometry.
Fractional calculus deals with the generalization of the concepts of differentiation and integration of non-integer orders. This generalization is not merely a purely mathematical curiosity, but it has demonstrated its application in various disciplines such as physics, biology, engineering, and economics.
Unlike fractional calculus, fractal calculus maintains the chain rule in a very direct way, which relates the fractal derivative to the classical derivative.
The fractal-fractional derivative (a new class of fractional derivative, which has many applications in real world problems) is a mathematical concept that combines two different ideas: fractals and fractional derivatives. Fractals are complex geometric patterns that repeat at different scales, while fractional derivatives are a generalization of ordinary derivatives that allow for non-integer orders. The combination of fractal theory and fractional calculus gave rise to new concepts of differentiation and integration.
A considerable literature has grown up around new fractal, fractional and fractal-fractional derivatives. For references connected with the subject being considered in this work we refer the reader to [
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10,
11,
12].
Quaternionic analysis (the most natural and close generalization of complex analysis) concerns the connection between analysis (even topology / geometry) in and the algebraic structure of quaternions . At the heart of this function theory lies the notion of hyperholomorphic functions defined on domains in with values in , i.e., null solutions of the so-called Fueter operator (to be defined later) in which the standard basis of is replaced by a structural set .
In the last years, there is an increasing interest in finding a framework for a fractal or fractional counterpart of quaternionic analysis, see [
13,
14,
15,
16,
17,
18,
19] and the references given there.
This paper introduce a fractional-fractal -Fueter operator in the quaternionic context inspired in the concepts of proportional fractional derivative and Hausdorff derivative of a function with respect to a fractal measure. Moreover, we establish the corresponding Stokes and Borel-Pompeiu formulas associated to this generalized fractional-fractal -Fueter operator.
The outline of this paper is summarized as follows. In
Section 2 we give a brief exposition of the generalized fractal-fractional derivative considered.
Section 3 presents some preliminaries on quaternionic analysis. In
Section 4 we develop the rudiments of a function theory induced by a quaternionic
-proportional fractal Fueter operator and finally in
Section 5 we will be concerned with a quaternionic
-proportional fractal Fueter operator with truncated exponential functions as fractals measure.
1. Generalized Fractal-Fractional Derivative
Definition 1.
The fractal derivative of a function f, defined on an interval I, with respect to a fractal measure is given by
If exists for all then f is real fractal differentiable on I with order η.
Some well-known cases. If for all then is the derivative operator. In addition, if for all where for all then for all
On the other hand, if for all then reduces to the Hausdorff derivative. Another useful fractal measure is for all and .
We consider an well-known extension of the previous fractal derivative.
Definition 2.
Given we present the β-fractal derivative of a function f, defined on an interval I, with respect to a fractal measure :
In order to make our description of the concept of fractal-fractional derivatives to be used precise, we introduce the notion of fractional proportional derivative, following [
20].
Definition 3.
Let be continuous functions such that
The proportional derivative of of order is given by
A combination of Definitions 2 and 3 yields.
Definition 4.
Let , the proportional β-fractal derivative of with respect to and σ is defined to be
if it exists for all .
Remark 1.
Given and we will consider the k-truncated exponential function defined as follows
for all . For we have and for we have .
Remark 2.
Important particular case, when the proportional and fractal measure in Definition 4 are given by
for all and allows to introduce some cases of generalized fractal-fractional derivative to consider. For we have
for all . The particular cases reduces to
where clearly the conditions and are necessary.
Addressing the issue requires that the case should be omitted.
The k-truncated exponential function as fractal measure provides the generalized fractal-fractional drivative in much generality
2. Preliminaries on Quaternionic Analysis
We begin by recalling some background and fixing notation that will be used throughout the entire document. For more details, we refer the interested reader to [
21,
22,
23].
A real quaternion is an element of the form
where
and the imaginary units
,
,
satisfy:
Quaternions form a skew-field denoted by . The set is the standard basis of .
The vector part of
is by definition,
while its real part is
. The quaternionic conjugation of
x, denoted by
is defined by
and norm the
is given by
The quaternionic scalar product of
is given by
A set of quaternions
is called structural set if
, for
and any quaternion
x can be rewritten as
, where
for all
k. Notion of structural sets is due to N
no [
24,
25].
Given
we follow the notation used in [
21] to write
where
for all
k.
Let
an structural set. From now on, we will use the mapping
in essential way.
Given a domain and a function . Then f is written as: , where are -valued functions. Properties of f are due to properties of all components such as continuity, differentiability, integrability and so on. For example, denotes the set of continuously differentiable -valued functions defined in .
The left- and the right--Fueter operators are given by and , for all , respectively, where for all k.
Let
be a
dimensional smooth surface. Then recall the Borel-Pompieu and differential and integral versions of Stokes’ formulas
for all
.
for all
. Here
d represents the exterior differentiation operator,
is the differential form of the 4-dimensional volume in
and
is the quaternionic differential form of the 3-dimensional volume in
according to
, where
omitting factor
. In addition,
is 1, or
, if
and
have the same orientation, or not, respectively. Note that,
is the differential form of the 3-dimensional volume in
and write
. Let us recall that the
-Cauchy Kernel is given by
3. A Function Theory Generated by a -Proportional Fractal Fueter Operator
Let us extend Definition 4 to a quaternionic differential operator associate to an arbitrary structural set .
Definition 5. Let a domain. Fix and where is a fractal measure for according to Definition 1. Denote , and where and and are given by Definition 3 on coordinate for .
Let such that exists for all and all . Then, the quaternionic ψ-proportional β-fractal derivative of f with respect to ν and σ, is given by
Proposition 1.
Given as above let us assume that
exist for . Under conditions and for all and all we have
for
Proof. To simplify notation consider
for all
. From direct computations we have that
Therefore,
where
and
.
As a consequence we have that
i.e.,
or equivalently
□
Notation and for all , can be improved but we have decided to keep it at this level to make easier to write and read the following computations.
Definition 6. For , and where is a fractal measure for according to Definition 1. Denote , and where and and are given by Definition 3 for .
Given such that there exists for all and all . The quaternionic right ψ-proportional δ-fractal derivative of g with respect to μ and ρ, is given by
Remark 3.
Consider such that
there exist for . If and for all and all , then repeating several computations of the previous proof we can see that
for .
Assuming hypothesis and notations of Proposition 1 and Remark 3 let us present some consequences of quatertionic Borel-Pompeiu and Stokes formulas.
Proposition 2.
Let be a domain such that is a 3-dimensional smooth surface. If then
Proof. The formulas follow by application of quaternionic Borel-Pompieu and Stokes formula, functions , and the usage of identities given in Proposition 1 and Remark 3. □
Remark 4.
In case in which and are invertible operators we can improve formula (6) to obtain the quaternionc values of f and g. In addition, if and then
4. Quaternionic -Proportional Fractal Fueter Operator with Truncated Exponential Fractal Measure
From now on, partial differential operators given by Remarks 1 and 2 are considered, and let , , and for .
Let
be a domain and
. We will use the proportional
-fractal partial derivatives
for all
.
Definition 7.
Let be a domain. Given , where are real valued functions. Define
and to simplify the notation in the proof of the next statement use for all . In addition,
where for all and .
Proposition 3.
Given . Then
for all .
Proof.
The identities
and
imply that
For each
we see that
□
Remark 5.
Denote , , and for . We will use the the proportional -fractal partial derivative . Recall that if then
for all .
If , where are real valued functions. Define the right version of the operator given by (8) as follows:
and use for all . Denote
From similar computations to presented in the previous proof we can obtain the right version of (11):
for all
Corollary 1. Let be a domain such that is a 3-dimensional smooth surface. In agreement with notation in Definition 7 and Remark 5 we have:
- (1)
-
If then operators given in Definition 7 are represented as follows:
for all and (11) becomes at
for all . Another important cases are the following:
- (a)
-
If and then
for all and (11) becomes at
for all .
- (b)
-
If and then
for all and (11) becomes at
for all .
- (2)
-
If then the operators given in Remark 5 are represented by
for all .
- (a)
-
If then the operators given in Remark 5 are represented by
for all .
- (b)
-
If and then the operators given in Remark 5 are represented by
for all .
- (c)
-
If and then the operators given in Remark 5 are represented by
for all .
Proposition 4.
Let be a domain such that is a 3-dimensional smooth surface. In agreement with notation in Definition 7 and Remark 5 let , where are real valued functions. Then
Proof. It is a direct consequence of Definition 7 and Remark 5 using functions
and
and identities (
11) and (
12) in formulas (
2) and (
3). □
Remark 6. In formulas (13) and (14), the operators and reflect the phenomenon of duality in quaternionic analysis due to the non-commutativity of quaterinonic algebra.
Corollary 2.
Let be a domain such that is a 3-dimensional smooth surface. In agreement with notation in Definition 7 and Remark 5 let , where are real valued functions. Suppose that and . Then
Corollary 3. Let be a domain such that is a 3-dimensional smooth surface. In agreement with notation in Definition 7 and Remark 5 let , where are real valued functions. Suppose that and . For fix and we have:
- (1)
-
If and , then
where operators , , and are represented in Corollary 1.
- (2)
-
If and , then
where , , and are given in Corollary 1.
- (3)
-
If and , then
where operators , , and are given in Corollary 1.
- (4)
For and a similar result is in fact true.
5. Discussion
This paper establishes the foundations of a quaternionic function theory associated to a proportional and fractional-fractal -Fueter operator associated to a fractal measure. Also this work extends the quaternionic hiperholomorphic function theory. So what other results can be extended to this recent function theory?
Acknowledgments
This work was partially supported by Instituto Politécnico Nacional (grant numbers SIP20241638, SIP20241237) and CONAHCYT (grant number 1077475).
Conflicts of Interest
“ The authors declare that they have no competing interests regarding the publication of this paper.”
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