Journal of Public Affairs.
John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
2021.
In this article, we formulate two kinds of time fractional derivatives of the Caputo type with order α in fractional Sobolev spaces and prove that they are isomorphisms between the corresponding Sobolev space of order α and the L2 -space. On the basis of such fractional derivatives, we formulate initial value problems for time fractional ordinary differential equations and prove the well-posedness. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.