A strongly ill-posed integrodifferential singular parabolic problem in the unit cube of \(\mathbb{R}^n\) (Q478976)

In the present paper, the authors deal first with an \(n\)-dimensional differential linear parabolic problem, where the spatial differential operator \[ A(x,D)=-\sum_{j=1}^{n}D_{x_j}\left[a_j(x_j)D_{x_j}\right]+\sum_{j=1}^{n}a_{0,j}(x)D_{x_j}+a_{0,0}(x), \] is defined on the \(n\)-dimensional open unit cube \(\Omega_n=(0,1)^n\) and is singular in its principal part when approaching any of the faces on \(x_j=0\), \(j=1,\dots,n,\) the singularities of the coefficients \(a_j\), \(j=1,\dots,n\), being of power type. Then, they treat the related integro-differential problem, when the parabolic differential equation is perturbed by a linear integro-differential operator of Fredholm type of the form: \[ B(t)w(x)=\int_{\Omega_n}k_0(t,x,y)w(y)dy+\sum_{i=1}^{n}\int_{\Omega_n}k_i(t,x,y)D_{y_i}w(y)dy. \] By obtaining Carleman estimates, they prove uniqueness and continuous dependence results without considering initial conditions.