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Unique Determination of Sound Speeds for Coupled Systems of Semi-linear Wave Equations

Analysis of PDEs 2018-11-02 v2

Abstract

We consider coupled systems of semi-linear wave equations with different sound speeds on a finite time interval [0,T][0,T] and a bounded Lipschitz domain Ω\Omega in R3\mathbb{R}^3, with boundary Ω\partial\Omega. We show the coupled systems are well posed for variable coefficient sounds speeds and short times. Under the assumption of small initial data, we prove the source to solutions map on [0,T]×Ω[0,T]\times\partial\Omega associated with the nonlinear problem is sufficient to determine the source-to-solution map for the linear problem. We can then reconstruct the sound speeds in Ω\Omega for the coupled nonlinear wave equations under certain geometric assumptions. In the case of the full source to solution map in Ω×[0,T]\Omega\times[0,T] this reconstruction could also be accomplished under fewer geometric assumptions.

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@article{arxiv.1804.11155,
  title  = {Unique Determination of Sound Speeds for Coupled Systems of Semi-linear Wave Equations},
  author = {Alden Waters},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.11155},
  year   = {2018}
}

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