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We introduce left general fractional Caputo style derivatives with respect to an absolutely continuous strictly increasing function g. We give various examples of such fractional derivatives for different g. Let f be a p-times continuously differentiable function on [a,b], and let L be a linear left general fractional differential operator such that L(f) is non-negative over a closed subinterval I of [a,b]. We find a sequence of polynomials Qₙ of degree ≤n such that L(Qₙ) is non-negative over I, and furthermore f is approximated uniformly by Qₙ over [a,b].
The degree of this constrained approximation is given by an inequality using the first modulus of continuity of $f^{(p)}$. We finish with applications of the main fractional monotone approximation theorem for different g. On the way to proving the main theorem we establish useful related general results.