Communicated by: M. Kirane MSC Classification: 35K05; 35K99; 47J06; 47H10In this paper, we consider an inverse source problem for a time fractional diffusion equation. In general, this problem is ill posed, therefore we shall construct a regularized solution using the filter regularization method in the random noise case. We will provide appropriate conditions to guarantee the convergence of the approximate solution to the exact solution. Then, we provide examples of filters in order to obtain error estimates for their approximate solutions. Finally, we present a numerical example to show efficiency of the method.
KEYWORDSdiffusion process, fractional derivative, inverse source problem, random noise, regularization 204 We start by recalling the definition of the Mittag-Leffler function, a special function that plays an important role in understanding diffusion processes. For more information, see 12 and references therein.Definition 2.1. For any > 0 and ∈ R , the two-parameter Mittag-Leffler function, a special function that plays an important role in understanding diffusion processes. For more information, see 13 and references therein, z ∈ C.The asymptotic growth of the Mittag-Leffler function is characterized in the following lemma.