Fox H functions in fractional diffusion

AbstractThe H functions, introduced by Fox in 1961, are special functions of a very general nature, which allow one to treat several phenomena including anomalous diffusion in a unified and elegant framework. In this paper we express the fundamental solutions of the Cauchy problem for the space–time fractional diffusion equation in terms of proper Fox H functions, based on their Mellin–Barnes integral representations. We pay attention to the particular cases of space-fractional, time-fractional and neutral-fractional diffusion