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A Lipschitz stable reconstruction formula for the inverse problem for the wave equation

Analysis of PDEs 2012-10-04 v1

Abstract

We consider the problem to reconstruct a wave speed cC(M)c \in C^\infty(M) in a domain MRnM \subset \R^n from acoustic boundary measurements modelled by the hyperbolic Dirichlet-to-Neumann map Λ\Lambda. We introduce a reconstruction formula for cc that is based on the Boundary Control method and incorporates features also from the complex geometric optics solutions approach. Moreover, we show that the reconstruction formula is locally Lipschitz stable for a low frequency component of c2c^{-2} under the assumption that the Riemannian manifold (M,c2dx2)(M, c^{-2} dx^2) has a strictly convex function with no critical points. That is, we show that for all bounded C2C^2 neighborhoods UU of cc, there is a C1C^1 neighborhood VV of cc and constants C,R>0C, R > 0 such that |\F\ll(\tilde c^{-2} - c^{-2}\rr)(\xi)| \le C e^{2R |\xi|} \norm{\tilde \Lambda - \Lambda}_*, \quad \xi \in \R^n, for all c~UV\tilde c \in U \cap V, where Λ~\tilde \Lambda is the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map corresponding to the wave speed c~\tilde c and \norm\norm{\cdot}_* is a norm capturing certain regularity properties of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann maps.

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@article{arxiv.1210.1094,
  title  = {A Lipschitz stable reconstruction formula for the inverse problem for the wave equation},
  author = {Shitao Liu and Lauri Oksanen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.1094},
  year   = {2012}
}
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