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An Inverse Source Problem in Radiative Transfer with Partial Data

Analysis of PDEs 2015-05-28 v3

Abstract

The inverse source problem for the radiative transfer equation is considered, with partial data. Here it is shown that under certain smoothness conditions on the scattering and absorption coefficients, one can recover sources supported in a certain subset of the domain, which we call the visible set. Furthermore, it is shown for an open dense set of CC^{\infty} absorption and scattering coefficients that one can recover the part of the wave front set of the source that is supported in the microlocally visible set, modulo a function in the Sobolev space HkH^{k} for kk arbitrarily large. This is an extension to the full data case, which is considered in \cite{inversesource}.

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@article{arxiv.1105.1577,
  title  = {An Inverse Source Problem in Radiative Transfer with Partial Data},
  author = {Mark Hubenthal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1105.1577},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

27 pages, 2 figures, accepted to Inverse Problems

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