Author:
Pattnaik Ashapurna,Padhan Saroj Kumar,Mohapatra R.N.
Abstract
Sufficient conditions for extremum of fractional variational problems are formulated with the help of Caputo fractional derivatives. The Euler–Lagrange equation is defined in the Caputo sense and Jacobi conditions are derived using this. Again, Wierstrass integral for the considered functional is obtained from the Jacobi conditions and the transversality conditions. Further, using the Taylor’s series expansion with Caputo fractional derivatives in the Wierstrass integral, the Legendre’s sufficient condition for extremum of the fractional variational problem is established. Finally, a suitable counterexample is presented to justify the efficacy of the fresh findings.
Subject
Management Science and Operations Research,Computer Science Applications,Theoretical Computer Science