[Update 3:] I gave a new partial answer following the ansatz in question Q3. I leave the other parts of the question untouched, they are also partially answered in specialized other questions in MSE.
I'm trying to understand the concept of fractional derivatives and am fiddling with the examples at wikipedia. The a'th derivative of a monomial in x, where a can be fractional is accordingly dadxaxm=Γ(1+m)Γ(1+m−a)xm−a
Q1: But what happens for some function f(x) if I want to evaluate the half-derivative at zero?
Originally I'm interested in the fractional derivatives of the zeta at zero. Because I thought that the monomial-halfiterative is the most easy one to understand I tried first the power-series expression of the zeta-function
ζ(x)=−11−x+∞∑k=0wkxk
But if I want to find the (1/2)'th derivative at x=0 I need definitions how I should handle the fractional powers of zero.
Q2: How can I evaluate the fractional derivative of the leading fraction 11−x? Can I do better than to express the fraction by its power series and do the derivations termwise at the monomials?
Q3: Or can I do something like with the integer derivatives of the zeta at s=0 where I express it as the Dirichlet-series having the logarithms in the numerators?
[update]: concerning Q3, I've now used the alternating-zeta version and assumed, that
d1/2dx1/21kx=d1/2dx1/2exp(x(−log(k)))=(−log(k))1/21kx=i⋅(log(k))1/21kx
and then I set x=0 and evaluate the alternating series η(0)(1/2)=E∞∑k=0((−1)klog(1+k)1/2⋅i)∼−0.347006596200⋅i
[update2]: I tried the Riemann-Liouville-formula for the half-derivative as given by @J.M. in MSE, but the result is inconclusive. First, I need to handle zeros in the denominators, and second, if I replace them by limiting expressions with ϵ→0 the numerical integration seems to diverge either to −∞ or −i∞ depending on whether I approach zero from positive or from negative values. So I need some help even for this...
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