Abstract

In the present paper, we consider a backward problem for a space-fractional diffusion equation (SFDE) with a time-dependent coefficient. Such the problem is obtained from the classical diffusion equation by replacing the second-order spatial derivative with the Riesz-Feller derivative of order α∈(0,2]. This problem is ill-posed, i.e., the solution (if it exists) does not depend continuously on the data. Therefore, we propose one new regularization solution to solve it. Then, the convergence estimate is obtained under a priori bound assumptions for exact solution.