Inverse Source Problem for a Time-Fractional Diffusion-Wave Equation with a Singular Inverse-Square Potential
Abstract
This paper investigates an inverse source problem for a time-fractional diffusion-wave equation with a singular inverse-square potential. The source term is assumed to consist of a known temporal factor and an unknown spatial component, which is to be recovered from terminal-state measurements. The well-posedness and regularity of the forward problem are established within an appropriate energy framework by exploiting Hardy-type inequalities and the spectral properties of the associated singular elliptic operator. The terminal observation operator is then shown to be compact, and uniqueness of the spatial source is established under a suitable nondegeneracy condition on the temporal factor. To stabilize the resulting ill-posed inverse problem, a Tikhonov regularization approach is introduced. The gradient of the regularized functional is derived through an adjoint problem involving a right-sided fractional derivative, leading to an adjoint-based conjugate gradient method with an exact line search for the numerical reconstruction of the unknown source. Numerical experiments are conducted on both one-and two-dimensional spatial domains, using both exact and noisy terminal data, to demonstrate the effectiveness and stability of the proposed source reconstruction method.
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BibTeX
@misc{wang2026inverse,
title = {{Inverse Source Problem for a Time-Fractional Diffusion-Wave Equation with a Singular Inverse-Square Potential}},
author = {Zewen Wang and Bin Wu and Yikan Liu and Liangwei Jin and Shufang Qiu},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = aug,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2608.28103},
eprint = {2608.28103},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.28103},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Inverse Source Problem for a Time-Fractional Diffusion-Wave Equation with a Singular Inverse-Square Potential
AU - Zewen Wang
AU - Bin Wu
AU - Yikan Liu
AU - Liangwei Jin
AU - Shufang Qiu
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/08/28
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2608.28103
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.28103
AB - This paper investigates an inverse source problem for a time-fractional diffusion-wave equation with a singular inverse-square potential. The source term is assumed to consist of a known temporal factor and an unknown spatial component, which is to be recovered from terminal-state measurements. The well-posedness and regularity of the forward problem are established within an appropriate energy framework by exploiting Hardy-type inequalities and the spectral properties of the associated singular elliptic operator. The terminal observation operator is then shown to be compact, and uniqueness of the spatial source is established under a suitable nondegeneracy condition on the temporal factor. To stabilize the resulting ill-posed inverse problem, a Tikhonov regularization approach is introduced. The gradient of the regularized functional is derived through an adjoint problem involving a right-sided fractional derivative, leading to an adjoint-based conjugate gradient method with an exact line search for the numerical reconstruction of the unknown source. Numerical experiments are conducted on both one-and two-dimensional spatial domains, using both exact and noisy terminal data, to demonstrate the effectiveness and stability of the proposed source reconstruction method.
ER -