Initial boundary value problems for time-fractional evolution equations in Banach spaces

TL;DR

This paper studies initial boundary value problems for time-fractional evolution equations in Banach spaces, establishing well-posedness, solution construction, and uniqueness in inverse problems, with applications to elliptic operators on bounded domains.

Contribution

It introduces a solution framework for time-fractional evolution equations in Banach spaces using Laplace transforms and proves well-posedness and uniqueness results, including inverse problem applications.

Findings

Constructed solution operator via Laplace transform.

Proved well-posedness for weak and strong solutions.

Established uniqueness in inverse problems.

Abstract

We consider an initial value problem for time-fractional evolution equation in Banach space $X$: $$ \pppa (u(t)-a) = Au(t) + F(t), \quad 0<t<T. \eqno{(*)} $$ Here $u: (0,T) \rrrr X$ is an $X$-valued function defined in $(0,T)$, and $a \in X$ is an initial value. The operator $A$ satisfies a decay condition of resolvent which is common as a generator of analytic semigroup, and in particular, we can treat a case $X=L^p(\OOO)$ over a bounded domain $\OOO$ and a uniform elliptic operator $A$ within our framework. First we construct a solution operator $(a, F) \rrrr u$ by means of $X$-valued Laplace transform, and we establish the well-posedness of (*) in classes such as weak solution and strong solutions. We discuss also mild solutions local in time for semilinear time-fractional evolution equations. Finally we apply the result on the well-posedness to an inverse problem of determining an initial value and we establish the uniqueness for the inverse problem.