Regularity conjecture for solutions of a singular fractional differential equation

Consider the boundary-value problem

{D0+αu(t)+h(t)=0,t(0,1),u(0)=0=u(1),\begin{cases} D^{\alpha}_{0+}u(t)+h(t)=0,\quad t\in(0,1),\\ u(0)=0=u(1), \end{cases}

where D0+αD^{\alpha}_{0+} is the Riemann–Liouville fractional derivative of order α(1,2]\alpha\in(1,2]. Let C2α1[0,1]C^1_{2-\alpha}[0,1] denote the weighted differentiability space used in the paper, and let

Eα={uC[0,1]:tα1D0+α1u(t)C[0,1]}.E_\alpha=\{u\in C[0,1]:t^{\alpha-1}D^{\alpha-1}_{0+}u(t)\in C[0,1]\}.

Regularity conjecture. If hC[0,1]h\in C[0,1] or hL1(0,1)h\in L^1(0,1), then the solution uu belongs to C2α1[0,1]C^1_{2-\alpha}[0,1]. Moreover, if hC(0,1]h\in C(0,1] satisfies (H)(H), then the solution uu belongs to Eα[0,1]E_\alpha[0,1]. The claim concerns regularity of solutions when the forcing term is either regular or singular at the endpoint. The surrounding discussion states that the first assertion is known for continuous hh and that examples demonstrate the relevance of EαE_\alpha for singular data; the status of the full proposition, including the L1L^1 case and the hypotheses (H)(H), is not established in the supplied text.

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Jinsil Lee and Yong-Hoon Lee, “Regularity of solutions for singular fractional differential equation”, arXiv:2202.09015 (2022).

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