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Quantitative stability of Gel'fand's inverse boundary problem

Analysis of PDEs 2025-04-02 v4 Differential Geometry

Abstract

In Gel'fand's inverse problem, one aims to determine the topology, differential structure and Riemannian metric of a compact manifold MM with boundary from the knowledge of the boundary M,\partial M, the Neumann eigenvalues λj\lambda_j and the boundary values of the eigenfunctions φjM\varphi_j|_{\partial M}. We show that this problem has a stable solution with quantitative stability estimates in a class of manifolds with bounded geometry. More precisely, we show that finitely many eigenvalues and the boundary values of corresponding eigenfunctions, known up to small errors, determine a metric space that is close to the manifold in the Gromov-Hausdorff sense. We provide an algorithm to construct this metric space. This result is based on an explicit estimate on the stability of the unique continuation for the wave operator.

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@article{arxiv.2012.04435,
  title  = {Quantitative stability of Gel'fand's inverse boundary problem},
  author = {Dmitri Burago and Sergei Ivanov and Matti Lassas and Jinpeng Lu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.04435},
  year   = {2025}
}

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introduction updated, to appear in Anal. PDE