Reflected Spectrally Negative Stable Processes and their Governing Equations

This paper explicitly computes the transition densities of a spectrally negative stable process with index greater than one, reflected at its infimum. First we derive the forward equation using the theory of sun-dual semigroups. The resulting forward equation is a boundary value problem on the positive half-line that involves a negative Riemann-Liouville fractional derivative in space, and a fractional reflecting boundary condition at the origin. Then we apply numerical methods to explicitly compute the transition density of this space-inhomogeneous Markov process, for any starting point, to any desired degree of accuracy. Finally, we discuss an application to fractional Cauchy problems, which involve a positive Caputo fractional derivative in time

Distributed Order Calculus and Equations of Ultraslow Diffusion

We consider diffusion type equations with a distributed order derivative in the time variable. This derivative is defined as the integral in $\alpha$ of the Caputo-Dzhrbashian fractional derivative of order $\alpha \in (0,1)$ with a certain positive weight function. Such equations are used in physical literature for modeling diffusion with a logarithmic growth of the mean square displacement. In this work we develop a mathematical theory of such equations, study the derivatives and integrals of distributed order.Comment: 39 pages. To appear in J. Math. Anal. App