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We found that the fundamental laws of the aforementioned problems can all be characterized by fractal operators, and each type of operator possesses rich invariant properties. Based on the invariant properties of fractal operators, we discovered that the symmetry evolution laws of functional fractal trees in the physical fractal space can reveal the intrinsic correlations between special functions. This article explores the fractional-order correlation between special functions inspired by bone fractal operators. Specifically, the following contents are included: (1) showing the intrinsic expression in the convolutional kernel function of bone fractal operators and its correlation with special functions; (2) proving the following proposition: the convolutional kernel function of bone fractal operators is still related to the special functions under different input signals (external load, external stimulus); (3) using the bone fractal operators as the background and error function as the core, deriving the fractional-order correlation between different special functions.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/sym16101279","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,9,30]],"date-time":"2024-09-30T03:12:28Z","timestamp":1727665948000},"page":"1279","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Fractional-Order Correlation between Special Functions Inspired by Bone Fractal Operators"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"given":"Zhimo","family":"Jian","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Chaoqian","family":"Luo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Tianyi","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Gang","family":"Peng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Civil Engineering, Chengdu Technological University, Chengdu 611730, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yajun","family":"Yin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,9,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1429","DOI":"10.1007\/s10483-019-2524-8","article-title":"Abstraction and operator characterization of fractal ladder viscoelastic hyper-cell for ligaments and tendons","volume":"40","author":"Guo","year":"2019","journal-title":"Appl. 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