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$AC^p$ curves and pointwise metric speed in abstract metric spaces?

For a fixed "reasonable" metric space $(X,d)$ (say complete, separable, whatever is needed...), a curve $\gamma:[0,1]\to X$ is said to be $AC^p(0,1)$ (absolutely continuous) if $$ d(\gamma(s)...
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Question about optimizing a given function by optimizing an approximation

Let $f$ be a real-valued function. Suppose I want to find a local maximum of $f$, but I decide to work with an ''approximation'' to $f$ --let us call it $g$. What is a suitable notion of ''...
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A definition of the fractional derivative

I was investigating the idea of fractional derivatives and devised the following definition. WHich definition is it equivalent to and can I have a reference for it? $$\frac{d^n}{dx^n}f(x) = \lim_{h \...