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Instability of the linearized problem in multiwave tomography of recovery both the source and the speed

Analysis of PDEs 2012-11-28 v1

Abstract

In this paper we consider the linearized problem of recovering both the sound speed and the thermal absorption arising in thermoacoustic and photoacoustic tomography. We show that the problem is unstable in any scale of Sobolev spaces.

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@article{arxiv.1211.6217,
  title  = {Instability of the linearized problem in multiwave tomography of recovery both the source and the speed},
  author = {Plamen Stefanov and Gunther Uhlmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.6217},
  year   = {2012}
}