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Seismic acoustic impedance (AI) inversion is widely used in geophysics as AI can indicate rock characteristics and facilitate stratigraphic analysis. However, traditional AI inversion suffers from a multi-solution problem. To overcome this barrier, anisotropic total p-variation (ATpV) regularization has been applied in inversion as it can improve the accuracy by Lp quasi-norm. Nevertheless, this regularization results in the staircase effect and the scattering effect. To reduce these two effects, we introduced the mixed second-order variations and the fractional difference in AI inversion based on ATpV and proposed a novel AI inversion method using mixed second-order fractional anisotropic total p-variation (MS_FATpV) regularization. Moreover, the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) algorithm is used to build the inversion framework. Numerical experiments demonstrate that the fractional difference and the mixed second-order variant can reduce the staircase and scattering effects. The proposed method reduces the multiplicity and improves the accuracy than some state-of-the-art methods based on anisotropic total variation (ATV).