A coercive space-time variational approach to fractional diffusion problems

DOI10.48550/arXiv.2609.00091MaRDI QIDQ7285170arXivFDO

Authors Herbert Egger, Marvin Fritz, Barbara Wohlmuth

Publication date 31 August 2026

Published in arXiv

Tldr We derive a coercive space-time variational formulation for fractional diffusion problems with temporal nonlocality acting on the diffusive flux and establish existence, uniqueness, and regularity of solutions in Bochner-valued Sobolev spaces. We develop a conforming tensor-product Galerkin discretization and prove quasi-optimal error estimates in anisotropic energy norms and improved convergence rates in weaker norms using duality arguments.

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.00091

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fractional derivatives and integrals (26A33) Fractional partial differential equations (35R11) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M12) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60)

arXiv classification

math.NA

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