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The non local fractional Laplacian plays a relevant role when modeling the dynamics of many processes through complex media. From 1933 to 1949, within the framework of potential theory, the Hungarian mathematician Marcel Riesz discovered the well known Riesz potential operators, a generalization of the Riemann-Liouville fractional integral to dimension higher than one. The scope of this note is to highlight that in the above mentioned works, Riesz also gave the necessary tools to introduce several new definitions of the generalized coupled fractional Laplacian which can be applied to much wider domains of functions than those given in the literature, which are based in both the theory of fractional power of operators or in certain hyper-singular integrals. Moreover, we will introduce the corresponding fractional hyperbolic differential operator also called fractional Lorentzian Laplacian.
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Prado, H., Rivero, M., Trujillo, J.J. et al. New Results from Old Investigation: A Note on Fractional M-Dimensional Differential Operators. The Fractional Laplacian. FCAA 18, 290–307 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1515/fca-2015-0020
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