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Inverse problems for the perturbed polyharmonic operator with coefficients in Sobolev spaces with non-positive order

Analysis of PDEs 2017-03-07 v3

Abstract

We show that the knowledge of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map on the boundary of a bounded open set in Rn\mathbb R^n, n3n\ge 3, for the perturbed polyharmonic operator (Δ)m+AD+q(-\Delta)^m+A\cdot D+q, m2m\ge 2, with n>mn>m, AWm22,2nmA\in W^{-\frac{m-2}{2},\frac{2n}{m}} and qWm2+δ,2nmq\in W^{-\frac{m}{2}+\delta,\frac{2n}{m}}, with 0<δ<1/20<\delta<1/2, determines the potentials AA and qq in the set uniquely. The proof is based on a Carleman estimate with linear weights and with a gain of two derivatives and on the property of products of functions in Sobolev spaces.

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@article{arxiv.1510.02160,
  title  = {Inverse problems for the perturbed polyharmonic operator with coefficients in Sobolev spaces with non-positive order},
  author = {Yernat M. Assylbekov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.02160},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

24 pages, statement of main result was incorrect in the earlier version and has been corrected and modified