Extending Bauer's corollary to fractional derivatives
- 2 March 2004
- journal article
- letter
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics A: General Physics
- Vol. 37 (11), L117-L121
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/37/11/l01
Abstract
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.Keywords
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