The existence of mild and classical solutions for time fractional Fokker-Planck equations (Q2172594)

Time fractional Fokker-Planck equations can be used to describe the subdiffusion in an external time-and space-dependent force field \(F(t, x).\) In this paper, the authors convert it to the form of the following problem \[ \partial_t u-\kappa_{\alpha}\partial_t^{1-\alpha}\Delta u=\nabla\cdot(F\partial_t^{1-\alpha}u)+f, \] and apply it to study the following initial-boundary value problems of time fractional Fokker-Planck equations in an open bounded domain \[ \begin{cases} \displaystyle -\partial_tu(t,x)-\nabla\cdot (\partial_t^{1-\alpha}\kappa_{\alpha}\nabla u -F\partial_t^{1-\alpha}u)(t,x)=f(t,x), &(t,x) \in (0,T)\time\Omega\mathbb{R}^{3},\\ u(t,x)=0, &(t,x) \in (0,T)\time\partial\Omega,\\ u(0,x)=u_0(x),&x\in \Omega,\tag{1.1} \end{cases} \] the authors obtain some results on existence and uniqueness of mild solutions allowing the ``working space'' that may have low regularity. Secondly, they also analyze the relationship between ``working space'' and the value range of \(\alpha\) when investigating the problem of classical solutions. Finally, by constructing a suitable weighted Hölder continuous function space, the existence of classical solutions is derived without the restriction on \(\alpha\in(\frac{1}{2},1)\).