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Abstract and Applied Analysis
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 406757, 13 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/406757
Research Article
On the Definitions of Nabla Fractional Operators
1Department of Mathematics, Çankaya University, 06530 Ankara, Turkey
2Department of Mathematics, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY 42101, USA
Received 12 April 2012; Accepted 4 September 2012
Academic Editor: Dumitru Bǎleanu
Copyright © 2012 Thabet Abdeljawad and Ferhan M. Atici. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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