Generalized stirling functions of second kind and representations of fractional order differences via derivatives

Journal of Difference Equations and Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 503-533

  Butzer, Paul L ^a   Kilbas, Anatoly A ^b   Trujillo, Juan J ^c  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b BELARUSIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (Belarus)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Differences of fractional order; Generalized Stirling functions of second kind; Liouville fractional integrals and derivatives; Stirling numbers of second kind

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037572322     PISSN: 10236198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1023619031000112514     Document Type: Article

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