The stretched exponential behavior and its underlying dynamics. The phenomenological approach

Abstract

We show that the anomalous diffusion equations with a fractional derivative in the Caputo or Riesz sense are strictly related to the special convolution properties of the Lévy stable distributions which stem from the evolution properties of stretched or compressed exponential function. The formal solutions of these fractional differential equations are found by using the evolution operator method where the evolution operator is presented as integral transforms whose kernel is the Green function. Exact and explicit examples of the solutions are reported and studied for various fractional order of derivatives and different initial conditions.

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