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Mean value methods for solving the heat equation backwards in time

Numerical Analysis 2020-12-01 v1 Numerical Analysis

Abstract

We investigate an iterative mean value method for the inverse (and highly ill-posed) problem of solving the heat equation backwards in time. Semi-group theory is used to rewrite the solution of the inverse problem as the solution of a fixed point equation for an affine operator, with linear part satisfying special functional analytical properties. We give a convergence proof for the method and obtain convergence rates for the residual. Convergence rates for the iterates are also obtained under the so called source conditions.

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@article{arxiv.2011.14685,
  title  = {Mean value methods for solving the heat equation backwards in time},
  author = {A. Leitao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.14685},
  year   = {2020}
}

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13 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2011.08629

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