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The presented explanations are provided for the one--dimensional diffusion process with constant drift by using forward Fokker--Planck technique. We are interested in the outflow probability in a finite interval, i.e. first passage time…

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In this article, we consider the reconstruction of $\rho(t)$ in the (time-fractional) diffusion equation $(\partial_t^\alpha-\triangle)u(x,t)=\rho(t)g(x)$ ($0<\alpha \le 1$) by the observation at a single point $x_0$. We are mainly…

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