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We introduce a discrete-time fractional calculus of variations on the time scales $\mathbb{Z}$ and $(h\mathbb{Z})_a$. First and second order necessary optimality conditions are established. Some numerical examples illustrating the use of…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2012-02-15 Nuno R. O. Bastos

This paper is devoted to the error analysis of a time-spectral algorithm for fractional diffusion problems of order $\alpha$ ($0 < \alpha < 1$). The solution regularity in the Sobolev space is revisited, and new regularity results in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-08 Hao Luo , Xiaoping Xie

Sub-diffusion equations are used in a large range of applications including fluids, plasma physics and biology. Their mathematical analysis is advanced even if a much larger literature addresses super-diffusions. The goal of this paper is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Benoît Perthame , Min Tang

This paper establishes explicit solutions for fractional diffusion problems on bounded domains. It also gives stochastic solutions, in terms of Markov processes time-changed by an inverse stable subordinator whose index equals the order of…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-04-22 Boris Baeumer , Tomasz Luks , Mark M. Meerschaert

We begin with a treatment of the Caputo time-fractional diffusion equation, by using the Laplace transform, to obtain a Volterra intego-differential equation where we may examine the weakly singular nature of this convolution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-27 Wesley Davis , Richard Noren , Ke Shi

We present a series of results focused on the decay in time of solutions of classical and anomalous diffusive equations in a bounded domain. The size of the solution is measured in a Lebesgue space, and the setting comprises time-fractional…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-09 Elisa Affili , Serena Dipierro , Enrico Valdinoci

The first part of this paper introduces sufficient conditions to determine conservation laws of diffusion equations of arbitrary fractional order in time. Numerical methods that satisfy a discrete analogue of these conditions have…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-07 Angelamaria Cardone , Gianluca Frasca-Caccia

Super-diffusion, characterized by a spreading rate $t^{1/\alpha}$ of the probability density function $p(x,t) = t^{-1/\alpha} p \left( t^{-1/\alpha} x , 1 \right)$, where $t$ is time, may be modeled by space-fractional diffusion equations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-02-20 James F. Kelly , Mark M. Meerschaert

This paper deals with the investigation of the computational solutions of an unified fractional reaction-diffusion equation, which is obtained from the standard diffusion equation by replacing the time derivative of first order by the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-09-11 R. K. Saxena , A. M. Mathai , H. J. Haubold

The time-fractional Fokker-Planck equation is a key model for characterizing anomalous diffusion, stochastic transport, and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics with applications in finance, chaotic dynamics, optical physics, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Neetu Garg , Varsha R

The Caputo time-derivative is usually defined pointwise for well-behaved functions, say, for continuously differentiable functions. Accordingly, in the theory of the partial fractional differential equations with the Caputo derivatives, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-11-27 Rudolf Gorenflo , Yuri Luchko , Masahiro Yamamoto

We prove maximum principles for the problem of optimal control for a jump diffusion with infinite horizon and partial information. The results are applied to partial information optimal consumption and portfolio problems in infinite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-06-11 Sven Haadem , Bernt Øksendal , Frank Proske

We prove the dynamic programming principle for a class of diffusion processes controlled up to the time of exit from a cylindrical region $[0,T)\times G$. It is assumed that the functional to be maximized is in the Lagrange form with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-12-11 Dmitry B. Rokhlin

We present and analyze a space-time Petrov-Galerkin finite element method for a time-fractional diffusion equation involving a Riemann-Liouville fractional derivative of order $\alpha\in(0,1)$ in time and zero initial data. We derive a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-07-26 Beiping Duan , Bangti Jin , Raytcho Lazarov , Joseph Pasciak , Zhi Zhou

In this paper we consider a final value problem for a diffusion equation with time-space fractional differentiation on a bounded domain $D$ of $ \mathbb{R}^{k}$, $k\ge 1$, which includes the fractional power $\mathcal L^\beta$, $0<\beta\le…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Nguyen Huy Tuan , Tran Bao Ngoc , Yong Zhou , Donal O'Regan

The solution of time fractional partial differential equations in general exhibit a weak singularity near the initial time. In this article we propose a method for solving time fractional diffusion equation with nonlocal diffusion term. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-10 Sudhakar Chaudhary , Pari J. Kundaliya

In this paper, we numerically address the inverse problem of identifying a time-dependent coefficient in the time-fractional diffusion equation. An a priori estimate is established to ensure uniqueness and stability of the solution. A fully…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Arshyn Altybay

We consider a "superposition operator" obtained through the continuous superposition of operators of mixed fractional order, modulated by a signed Borel finite measure defined over the set $[0, 1]$. The relevance of this operator is rooted…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Serena Dipierro , Edoardo Proietti Lippi , Caterina Sportelli , Enrico Valdinoci

We study a fractional diffusion problem in the divergence form in one space dimension. We define a notion of the viscosity solution. We prove existence of viscosity solutions to the fractional diffusion problem with the Dirichlet boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-02 Tokinaga Namba , Piotr Rybka

The object of this paper is to present a computable solution of a fractional partial differential equation associated with a Riemann-Liouville derivative of fractional order as the time-derivative and Riesz-Feller fractional derivative as…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-10-03 R. K. Saxena , A. M. Mathai , H. J. Haubold