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Let $\mathbb{T}$ be a time scale. If $\mathbb{T}$ has a right-scattered minimum $m$, then define $\mathbb{T}_{\kappa}=\mathbb{T} \setminus \{m\}$, otherwise let $\mathbb{T}_{\kappa}=\mathbb{T}$. Define the backward graininess function $\nu \colon \mathbb{T}_{\kappa} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ by $$\nu(t) = t - \rho(t).$$

Let $f \colon \mathbb{T} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ and let $t \in \mathbb{T}_{\kappa}$. The $\nabla$-derivative of $f$ at $t$ is denoted by $f^{\nabla}(t)$ to be the number such that given any $\epsilon > 0$ there is a neighborhood $U$ of $t$ and $s \in U$, $$|f(\rho(t))-f(s)-f^{\nabla}(t)[\rho(t)-s]|\leq \epsilon|\rho(t)-s|.$$

References

Nabla dynamic equations on time scales - D. Anderson, J. Bullock, L. Erbe, A. Peterson, H. Tran