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Inverse anisotropic conductivity from power densities in dimension $n\ge 3$

Analysis of PDEs 2012-08-31 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We investigate the problem of reconstructing a fully anisotropic conductivity tensor γ\gamma from internal functionals of the form uγu\nabla u\cdot\gamma\nabla u where uu solves (γu)=0\nabla\cdot(\gamma\nabla u) = 0 over a given bounded domain XX with prescribed Dirichlet boundary condition. This work motivated by hybrid medical imaging methods covers the case n3n\ge 3, following the previously published case n=2n=2 \cite{Monard2011}. Under knowledge of enough such functionals, and writing γ=τγ~\gamma = \tau \tilde \gamma (detγ~=1\det \tilde\gamma = 1) with τ\tau a positive scalar function, we show that all of γ\gamma can be explicitely and locally reconstructed, with no loss of scales for τ\tau and loss of one derivative for the anisotropic structure γ~\tilde\gamma. The reconstruction algorithms presented require rank maximality conditions that must be satisfied by the functionals or their corresponding solutions, and we discuss different possible ways of ensuring these conditions for \C1,α\C^{1,\alpha}-smooth tensors (0<α<10<\alpha<1).

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@article{arxiv.1208.6029,
  title  = {Inverse anisotropic conductivity from power densities in dimension $n\ge 3$},
  author = {Francois Monard and Guillaume Bal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.6029},
  year   = {2012}
}

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27 pages, sumbitted to CPDE