A review of definitions of fractional differences and sums

Abstract

Given the increasing importance of discrete fractional calculus in mathematics, science engineering and so on, many different concepts of fractional difference and sum operators have been defined. In this paper, we mainly reviews some definitions of fractional differences and sum operators that emerged in the fields of discrete calculus. Moreover, some properties of those operators are also analyzed and compared with each other, including commutation rules, linearity, Leibniz rules, etc.