# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

June  2016, 6(2): 251-269. doi: 10.3934/mcrf.2016003

## Determination of time dependent factors of coefficients in fractional diffusion equations

 1 Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo 153, Japan 2 Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, CPT UMR 7332, Marseille, 13288, France

Received  January 2015 Revised  February 2016 Published  April 2016

In the present paper, we consider initial-boundary value problems for partial differential equations with time-fractional derivatives which evolve in $Q=\Omega\times(0,T)$ where $\Omega$ is a bounded domain of $\mathbb{R}^d$ and $T>0$. We study the stability of the inverse problems of determining the time-dependent parameter in a source term or a coefficient of zero-th order term from observations of the solution at a point $x_0\in\overline{\Omega}$ for all $t\in(0,T)$.
Citation: Kenichi Fujishiro, Yavar Kian. Determination of time dependent factors of coefficients in fractional diffusion equations. Mathematical Control & Related Fields, 2016, 6 (2) : 251-269. doi: 10.3934/mcrf.2016003
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[8] J. Carcione, F. Sanchez-Sesma, F. Luzón and J. Perez Gavilán, Theory and simulation of time-fractional fluid diffusion in porous media,, Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 46 (2013). doi: 10.1088/1751-8113/46/34/345501. [9] J. Cheng, J. Nakagawa, M. Yamamoto and T. Yamazaki, Uniqueness in an inverse problem for a one dimensional fractional diffusion equation,, Inverse Problems, 25 (2009). doi: 10.1088/0266-5611/25/11/115002. [10] M. Choulli and Y. Kian, Stability of the determination of a time-dependent coefficient in parabolic equations,, Math. Control Relat. Fields, 3 (2013), 143. doi: 10.3934/mcrf.2013.3.143. [11] D. Fujiwara, Concrete characterization of the domains of fractional powers of some elliptic differential operators of the second order,, Proceedings of the Japan Academy, 43 (1967), 82. doi: 10.3792/pja/1195521686. [12] P. Gaitan and Y. 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Yamamoto, Uniqueness in inverse boundary value problems for fractional diffusion equations,, Inverse Problems, 32 (2016). doi: 10.1088/0266-5611/32/1/015004. [19] J.-L. Lions and E. Magenes, Problèmes Aux Limites Non Homogènes et Applications, Vol. I,, Dunod, (1968). [20] Y. Liu, W. Rundell and M. Yamamoto, Strong maximum principle for fractional diffusion equations and an application to an inverse source problem,, , (). [21] Y. Luchko, Initial-boundary value problems for the generalized time-fractional diffusion equation,, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 374 (2011), 538. doi: 10.1016/j.jmaa.2010.08.048. [22] Y. Luchko, Maximum principle for the generalized time-fractional diffusion equation,, J. Math. Anal. Appl., 351 (2009), 218. doi: 10.1016/j.jmaa.2008.10.018. [23] D. Matignon, Stability properties for generalized fractional differential systems,, ESAIM:Proc., 5 (1998), 145. doi: 10.1051/proc:1998004. [24] D. 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A, 27 (1994), 3407. doi: 10.1088/0305-4470/27/10/017. [31] S. Saitoh, V. K. Tuan and M. Yamamoto, Convolution inequalities and applications,, J. Ineq. Pure and Appl. Math., 4 (2003). [32] S. Saitoh, V. K. Tuan and M. Yamamoto, Reverse convolution inequalities and applications to inverse heat source problems,, J. Ineq. Pure and Appl. Math., 3 (2002). [33] K. Sakamoto and M. Yamamoto, Initial value/boundary value problems for fractional diffusion-wave equations and applications to some inverse problems,, J. Math. Anal. Appl., 382 (2011), 426. doi: 10.1016/j.jmaa.2011.04.058. [34] S. G. Samko, A. A. Kilbas and O. I. Marichev, Fractional Integrals and Derivatives,, Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, (1993). [35] E. M. Stein, Singular Intearals and Differentiability Properties of Functions,, Princeton university press, (1970). [36] R. S. Strichartz, Multipliers on fractional Sobolev spaces,, J. Math. Mech., 16 (1967), 1031. [37] X. Xu, J. Cheng and M. Yamamoto, Carleman estimate for a fractional diffusion equation with half order and application,, Appl. Anal., 90 (2011), 1355. doi: 10.1080/00036811.2010.507199. [38] M. Yamamoto and Y. Zhang, Conditional stability in determining a zeroth-order coefficient in a half-order fractional diffusion equation by a Carleman estimate,, Inverse Problems, 28 (2012). doi: 10.1088/0266-5611/28/10/105010.
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