A Mollification Method for Backward Time-Fractional
Heat Equation
Authors: Nguyen Van Duc, Pham Quy Muoi, Nguyen Van Thang
Acta Mathematica Vietnamica
: 45 : 749-766
Publishing year: 6/2020
In this paper, we study the ill-posed fractional backward heat equation
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∂γ u
∂t γ
= Δu, x ∈ Rn, t ∈ (0, T ),
u(x, T ) = ϕ(x), x ∈ Rn,
where ϕ is unknown exact data and only noisy data ϕε with
ϕε(·) − ϕ(·)L2(Rn) ε
is available. The problem is regularized by the well-posed mollified problem
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∂γ vν
∂t γ
= Δvν, x ∈ Rn, t ∈ (0, T ),
vν(x, T ) = Sν(ϕε(x)), x ∈ Rn,
where ν > 0 and Sν(ϕε(x)), a mollification of ϕε defined by the convolution of ϕε(x) with
Dirichlet kernel. The error estimates u(·, t) − vν(·, t)H l(Rn), 0 ≤ l are established for ν
chosen a priori and a posteriori.
Fractional equations backward in time · Mollification method · Dirichlet kernel · Log-convexity method