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Simultaneous determination of initial value and source term for time-fractional wave-diffusion equations

Analysis of PDEs 2023-08-01 v1

Abstract

We consider initial boundary value problems for time fractional diffusion-wave equations: dtαu=Au+μ(t)f(x) d_t^{\alpha} u = -Au + \mu(t)f(x) in a bounded domain where μ(t)f(x)\mu(t)f(x) describes a source and α(0,1)(1,2)\alpha \in (0,1) \cup (1,2), and A-A is a symmetric ellitpic operator with repect to the spatial variable xx. We assume that μ(t)=0\mu(t) = 0 for t>Tt > T:some time and choose T2>T1>TT_2>T_1>T. We prove the uniqueness in simultaneously determining ff in Ω\Omega, μ\mu in (0,T)(0,T), and initial values of uu by data uω×(T1,T2)u\vert_{\omega\times (T_1,T_2)}, provided that the order α\alpha does not belong to a countably infinite set in (0,1)(1,2)(0,1) \cup (1,2) which is characterized by μ\mu. The proof is based on the asymptotic behavior of the Mittag-Leffler functions.

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@article{arxiv.2307.16665,
  title  = {Simultaneous determination of initial value and source term for time-fractional wave-diffusion equations},
  author = {Paola Loreti and Daniela Sforza and Masahiro Yamamoto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.16665},
  year   = {2023}
}
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