## Taiwanese Journal of Mathematics

### Generic Well-posedness for an Inverse Source Problem for a Multi-term Time-fractional Diffusion Equation

#### Abstract

This paper deals with an inverse source problem for the multi-term time-fractional diffusion equation with a diffusion parameter by using final overdetermination. On the basis of analytic Fredholm theory, a generic well-posedness of the inverse source problem in some suitable function space is proved.

#### Article information

Source
Taiwanese J. Math., Advance publication (2019), 16 pages.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 14 November 2019

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.twjm/1573722211

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.11650/tjm/191103

#### Citation

Li, Zhiyuan; Cheng, Xing; Liu, Yikan. Generic Well-posedness for an Inverse Source Problem for a Multi-term Time-fractional Diffusion Equation. Taiwanese J. Math., advance publication, 14 November 2019. doi:10.11650/tjm/191103. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.twjm/1573722211

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