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This book is dedicated to the generalized fractional calculus of variations and its main task is to unify and extend results concerning the standard fractional variational calculus.

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Malinowska, A.B., Odzijewicz, T., Torres, D.F.M. (2015). Introduction. In: Advanced Methods in the Fractional Calculus of Variations. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14756-7_1

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