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In this paper, we establish a quantitative weak unique continuation theorem on an annular domain for a backward degenerate parabolic equation with a degenerate interior point. Our methodology hinges on approximating the solution of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Dong-Hui Yang , Bao-Zhu Guo , Guojie Zheng , Jie Zhong

Based on a fundamental identity for stochastic hyperbolic-like operators, we derive in this paper a global Carleman estimate (with singular weight function) for stochastic wave equations. This leads to an observability estimate for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Xu Zhang

We consider a parabolic problem with degeneracy in the interior of the spatial domain and Neumann boundary conditions. In particular, we will focus on the well-posedness of the problem and on Carleman estimates for the associated adjoint…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-21 Idriss Boutaayamou , Genni Fragnelli , Lahcen Maniar

We consider non smooth general degenerate/singular parabolic equations in non divergence form with degeneracy and singularity occurring in the interior of the spatial domain, in presence of Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-29 Genni Fragnelli

Aim of this paper is to extend the continuous dependence estimates proved in \cite{JK1} to quasi-monotone systems of fully nonlinear second-order parabolic equations. As by-product of these estimates, we get an H\"older estimate for bounded…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-02-28 Fabio Camilli , Claudio Marchi

Quantitative unique continuation principles for multiscale structures are an important ingredient in a number applications, e.g. random Schr\"odinger operators and control theory. We review recent results and announce new ones regarding…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-08 Denis Borisov , Ivica Nakić , Christian Rose , Martin Tautenhahn , Ivan Veselić

This paper is about Holder and Lipschitz stability estimates and uniqueness theorems for some coefficient inverse problems and associated inverse source problems for a general linear parabolic equation of the second order with variable…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Michael V. Klibanov

In this paper, we present a new Carleman estimate for the adjoint equations associated to a class of super strong degenerate parabolic linear problems. Our approach considers a standard geometric imposition on the control domain, which can…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-22 Bruno S. V. Araújo , Reginaldo Demarque , Luiz Viana

We investigate the quantitative uniqueness of solutions to parabolic equations with lower order terms on compact smooth manifolds. Quantitative uniqueness is a quantitative form of strong unique continuation property. We characterize…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-08-08 Jiuyi Zhu

The exact solution of a Cauchy problem related to a linear second-order difference equation with constant noncommutative coefficients is reported.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. A. Jivulescu , A. Messina , A. Napoli , F. Petruccione

This paper studies unique continuation for weakly degenerate parabolic equations in one space dimension. A new Carleman estimate of local type is obtained to deduce that all solutions that vanish on the degeneracy set, together with their…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-10-04 Piermarco Cannarsa , Jacques Tort , Masahiro Yamamoto

In this paper we establish some new $L^{2}-L^{2}$ Carleman estimates for the Baouendi-Grushin operators $\mathscr{B}_\gamma$, in (1.1) below. We apply such estimates to obtain: (i) an extension of the Bourgain-Kenig quantitative unique…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-01 Agnid Banerjee , Nicola Garofalo , Ramesh Manna

We consider a $2\times 2$ system of parabolic equations with first and zeroth coupling and establish a Carleman estimate by extra data of only one component without data of initial values. Then we apply the Carleman estimate to inverse…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-09-10 Assia Benabdallah , Michel Cristofol , Patricia Gaitan , Masahiro Yamamoto

In this article, we study the quantitative uniqueness of solutions to second order elliptic equations with singular lower order terms. We quantify the strong unique continuation property by estimating the maximal vanishing order of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Blair Davey , Jiuyi Zhu

This expository note, written for the proceedings of ICCM 2023, presents recent work [arXiv:2004.13894]. We particularly prove an Carleman estimate on conic manifolds, using a multiple-weight Carleman argument.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-27 Ruoyu P. T. Wang

We consider a parabolic problem with degeneracy in the interior of the spatial domain, and we focus on controllability results through Carleman estimates for the associated adjoint problem. The novelty of the present paper is that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-02-10 Genni Fragnelli , Dimitri Mugnai

For a symmetric hyperbolic system of the first order, we prove a Carleman estimate under some positivity condition concerning the coefficient matrices. Next, applying the Carleman estimate, we prove an observability $L^2$-estimate for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-15 G. Floridia , H. Takase , M. Yamamoto

We prove a Carleman estimate for a one-dimensional parabolic equation which degenerates at one extremity of the domain and has a bounded, time dependent coefficient multiplying the diffusion term. Then we use the estimate to show the null…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Alfredo S. Gamboa , Juan Limaco , Luis P. Yapu

In this work there is established an optimal existence and regularity theory for second order linear parabolic differential equations on a large class of noncompact Riemannian manifolds. Then it is shown that it provides a general unifying…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-29 Herbert Amann

We investigate the unique solvability of second order parabolic equations in non-divergence form in $W_p^{1,2}((0,T) \times \bR^d)$, $p \ge 2$. The leading coefficients are only measurable in either one spatial variable or time and one…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Doyoon Kim , N. V. Krylov