Identification of the initial condition in backward problem with nonlinear diffusion and reaction

In this paper, we study the backward in time problem for nonlinear parabolic equations associated with nonlinear diffusion coefficient. The problem is ill-posed in the sense of Hadamard. Under an a priori assumption on the exact solution in Gevrey space, we propose a new regularization method for stabilising the ill-posed problem. Our results extend some earlier works on backward problems for nonlinear parabolic equations.