Response to Reviewer’s Comments

Ali Pirkhedri,
Department of Computer Engineering , Islamic Azad University, Marivan Branch, Marivan, Iran,
alipirkhedri@gmail.com,
2024-03-22

Dear Reviewer, thank you very much for your insightful comments and suggestions on my pa-
per. I appreciate the time and effort you have devoted to providing me with valuable feedback.
I have carefully considered all of your suggestions and have made the following revisions to the
manuscript. Furthermore, in revised paper, I have indicated the newly added content using blue
color for your convenience.
1- Comment: On Page 2, Eq. (2.1), what means C and d ?
Response A: The symbol C denotes the Caputo fractional derivative (The first letter of Ca-
puto). In fractional calculus theory, there are several types of fractional derivatives, each with
its own characteristics and specific applications. Some important types of fractional derivatives
include: Caputo fractional derivative, Grünwald-Letnikov fractional derivative, Riemann-Liouville
fractional derivative and Marchaud fractional derivative. In this paper, Caputo fractional deriva-
tive has been used.
Response B: (The parameter d )
The left and right Caputo fractional derivatives of order κ > 0 of a function Φ(x, t) where d < t < e
are defined by [1] :
C κ
d Dt Φ(x, t) =d Dtκ (Φ(x, t) − Φ(x, d)) ,

and
C κ
t De Φ(x, t) =t Deκ (Φ(x, t) − Φ(x, e)) ,

respectively, where d Dtκ (Φ(x, t)) and t Deκ (Φ(x, t)) denote the left and right Riemann–Liouville
fractional derivative of order κ , that is,

d t
Z
1
D
d t
κ
(Φ(x, t)) = (t − ρ)−κ Φ(x, ρ)dρ,
Γ(1 − κ) dt d
−1 d e
Z
D
t e
κ
(Φ(x, t)) = (ρ − t)−κ Φ(x, ρ)dρ.
Γ(1 − κ) dt t

2- Comment: On Page 3, Eq. (2.5) , explain about value of b approximately. (In revised paper
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Eq.(2.9))
Response: Rationalized Haar functions are defined in the range [0, 1) by default. But we can also
define them in the range (0, b) where b > 0.
More generally, we define the RH functions over the interval [a, b) as [2]:

1,
 p1 ≤ t < p 12
Rv (t) = −1, p 1 ≤ t < p0 ,
 2

0, otherwise,

 
n−q 1
R0 (t) = 1, pq = a + (b − a), q = 0, , 1, a, b > 0.
2m 2

v = 2m + n − 1, m = 0, 1, 2, ..., n = 1, 2, 3, ..., 2m .

3- Comment: Identify the rank of matrices on Page 3, Eqs. (2.11), (2.12) and (2.15). (In revised
paper Eqs. (2.15),(2.16) and (2.19))
The dimensions of all three matrices are k × k which have been written in revised paper. Also
about matrix Ωk×k which can be formulated as:
1 3
), . . . , γk ( 2k−1
 
Ωk×k = γk ( 2k ), γk ( 2k 2k ) 1×k
,

where, each element γk (t) can be formulated as:

 T
γk (t) = R0 (t), R1 (t), ..., Rk−1 (t) .

4- Comment: On Page 7, Section 5, specify range of ti .

Response: The values of ti have been mentioned in Eq.(4.13) as:

2i − 1
ti = , i = 1, 2, ..., k,
2k

and the values of L∞ − error, L2 − error and C − rate have been calculated for k = 16, 32.
5- Comment: The accurate of the method is good. Can we expect a super convergence result from
this technique?
Response: Figure 1 shows the logarithmic scale mode of L∞ − error, L2 − error. Since in this
semi-log representation the error variations are approximately linear versus n, we observe that the
values of error decay exponentially and we can conclude that the convergence rate of the proposed
method is exponential rate. (The above content is added in Example 1. )
6- Comment: Changing the ”haar” to ”Haar” in Ref.#24.
Response: Thanks for your tip and the change has been made. (Revised paper Ref.#26)

Once again, we sincerely appreciate your constructive feedback, which has undoubtedly strength-
ened our work. Thank you for your time and consideration.
Sincerely,
Ali Pirkhedri.
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