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Application of the boundary control method to partial data Borg-Levinson inverse spectral problem

Analysis of PDEs 2017-03-28 v1

Abstract

We consider the multidimensional Borg-Levinson problem of determining a potential qq, appearing in the Dirichlet realization of the Schr\"odinger operator Aq=Δ+qA_q=-\Delta+q on a bounded domain ΩRn\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^n, n2n\geq2, from the boundary spectral data of AqA_q on an arbitrary portion of Ω\partial\Omega. More precisely, for γ\gamma an open and non-empty subset of Ω\partial\Omega, we consider the boundary spectral data on γ\gamma given by BSD(q,γ):={(λk,νϕkγ): k1}\mathrm{BSD}(q,\gamma):=\{(\lambda_{k},{\partial_\nu \phi_{k}}_{|\overline{\gamma}}):\ k \geq1\}, where {λk: k1}\{ \lambda_k:\ k \geq1\} is the non-decreasing sequence of eigenvalues of AqA_q, {ϕk: k1}\{ \phi_k:\ k \geq1 \} an associated Hilbertian basis of eigenfunctions, and ν\nu is the unit outward normal vector to Ω\partial\Omega. We prove that the data BSD(q,γ)\mathrm{BSD}(q,\gamma) uniquely determine a bounded potential qL(Ω)q\in L^\infty(\Omega). Previous uniqueness results, with arbitrarily small γ\gamma, assume that qq is smooth. Our approach is based on the Boundary Control method, and we give a self-contained presentation of the method, focusing on the analytic rather than geometric aspects of the method.

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@article{arxiv.1703.08832,
  title  = {Application of the boundary control method to partial data Borg-Levinson inverse spectral problem},
  author = {Yavar Kian and Morgan Morancey and Lauri Oksanen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.08832},
  year   = {2017}
}
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