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Inverse anisotropic conductivity from internal current densities

Analysis of PDEs 2015-06-15 v1

Abstract

This paper concerns the reconstruction of an anisotropic conductivity tensor γ\gamma from internal current densities of the form J=γuJ = \gamma\nabla u, where uu solves a second-order elliptic equation (γu)=0\nabla\cdot(\gamma\nabla u) = 0 on a bounded domain XX with prescribed boundary conditions. A minimum number of such functionals equal to n+2n + 2, where nn is the spatial dimension, is sufficient to guarantee a local reconstruction. We show that γ\gamma can be uniquely reconstructed with a loss of one derivative compared to errors in the measurement of JJ. In the special case where γ\gamma is scalar, it can be reconstructed with no loss of derivatives. We provide a precise statement of what components may be reconstructed with a loss of zero or one derivatives.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1303.6665,
  title  = {Inverse anisotropic conductivity from internal current densities},
  author = {Guillaume Bal and Chenxi Guo and Francois Monard},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.6665},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

27 pages, submitted to Inverse Problems (March 2013)

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