Inverse initial problem for fractional reaction-diffusion equation with nonlinearities

Abstract

The initial inverse problem of finding solutions and their initial values ($t = 0$) appearing in a general class of fractional reaction-diffusion equations from the knowledge of solutions at the final time ($t = T$). Our work focuses on the existence and regularity of mild solutions in two cases: \begin{itemize} \item[--] The first case: The nonlinearity is globally Lipschitz and uniformly bounded which plays important roles in PDE theories, and especially in numerical analysis. \item[--] The second case: The nonlinearity is locally critical which widely arises from the Navier-Stokes, Schr\"odinger, Burgers, Allen-Cahn, Ginzburg-Landau equations, etc. \end{itemize} Our solutions are local-in-time and are derived via fixed point arguments in suitable functional spaces. The key idea is to combine the theories of Mittag-Leffler functions and fractional Sobolev embeddings. To firm the effectiveness of our methods, we finally apply our main results to time fractional Navier-Stokes and Allen-Cahn equations.