An operator-based approach for the construction of closed-form solutions to fractional differential equations

Abstract

An operator-based approach for the construction of closed-form solutions to fractional differential equations is presented in this paper. The technique is based on the analysis of Caputo and Riemann-Liouville algebras of fractional power series. Explicit solutions to a class of linear fractional differential equations are obtained in terms of Mittag-Leffler and fractionally-integrated exponential functions in order to demonstrate the viability of the proposed technique.

Keywords

• fractional differential equation
• operator calculus
• analytical solution
• closed-form solution