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In this paper, we focus on the backward heat problem of finding the function $\theta(x,y)=u(x,y,0)$ such that \[ {l l l} u_t - a(t)(u_{xx} + u_{yy}) & = f(x,y,t), & \qquad (x,y,t) \in \Omega\times (0,T), u(x,y,T) & = h(x,y), & \qquad (x,y)…
We study various partial data inverse boundary value problems for the semilinear elliptic equation $\Delta u+ a(x,u)=0$ in a domain in $\mathbb R^n$ by using the higher order linearization technique introduced in [LLS 19, FO19]. We show…
We study the inverse problem of recovery a non-linearity $f(x,u)$, which is compactly supported in $x$, in the semilinear wave equation $u_{tt}-\Delta u+ f(x,u)=0$. We probe the medium with either complex or real-valued harmonic waves of…
In this paper we study existence and uniqueness of renormalized solution to the following problem $\lambda (x,u) -div a(x,Du) +\Phi (x,u)) =f$ with $f$ in $L^1$ and with Dirichlet-Neumann boundary condition. The main difficulty in this task…
We consider in this paper the nonlinear elliptic equation with Neumann boundary condition \begin{align*} \begin{cases} \Delta u=a|u|^{m-1}u\,\,\mbox{ in }\,\,\rnp\\ \dfrac{\partial u}{\partial t}=b|u|^{\eta-1}u+f\,\,\mbox{ on…
We consider the problem of determining a pair of functions $(u,f)$ satisfying the heat equation $u_t -\Delta u =\varphi(t)f (x,y)$, where $(x,y)\in \Omega=(0,1)\times (0,1)$ and the function $\varphi$ is given. The problem is ill-posed.…
We consider the problem of existence of a solution $u$ to $\partial_t u-\partial_{xx} u = 0$ in $(0,T)\times\mathbb{R}_+$ subject to the boundary condition $-u_x(t,0)+g(u(t,0))=\mu$ on $(0,T)$ where $\mu$ is a measure on $(0,T)$ and $g$ a…
In the present paper we prove existence results for solutions to nonlinear elliptic Neumann problems whose prototype is \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} -\Delta_{p} u -\text{div} (c(x)|u|^{p-2}u)) =f & \text{in}\ \Omega, \\ \left( |\nabla…
We consider stable solutions of semilinear elliptic equations of the form $-\Delta u=f(u)$ in a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N$. In a well-known paper \cite{cfrs}, Cabr\'e, Figalli, Ros-Oton and Serra obtained interior estimates…
We consider the recovery of an unknown function $f$ from a noisy observation of the solution $u_f$ to a partial differential equation that can be written in the form $\mathcal{L} u_f=c(f,u_f)$, for a differential operator $\mathcal{L}$ that…
In this article we study the inverse problem of determining a semilinear term appearing in an elliptic equation from boundary measurements. Our main objective is to develop flexible and general theoretical results that can be used for…
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In this paper we are interested on solvability of the problem \begin{align*} \begin{cases} -\Delta u=0 & \text{in} \;\;\;\mathbb{R}^{n+1}_{+}\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\\ \;\;\displaystyle{\frac{\partial u}{\partial \nu}} = V(x)u+b \vert…
In this paper, we investigate a nonlinear inverse problem aimed at recovering a coefficient $a(t, x)$, dependent on both time and a subset of spatial variables, in a diffusion equation \( u_t - \Delta_x u - u_{yy} +a(t, x) u = f(t,x,y) \),…
In this paper we establish the existence and multiplicity of nontrivial solutions to the following problem \begin{align*} \begin{split} (-\Delta)^{\frac{1}{2}}u+u+(\ln|\cdot|*|u|^2)&=f(u)+\mu|u|^{-\gamma-1}u,~\text{in}~\mathbb{R},…
We study an inverse problem for a coupled system of semilinear Helmholtz equations where we are interested in reconstructing multiple coefficients in the system from internal data measured in applications such as thermoacoustic imaging. We…
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We study inverse source problems associated to semilinear elliptic equations of the form \[ \Delta u(x)+a(x,u)=F(x), \] on a bounded domain $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^n$, $n\geq 2$. We show that it is possible to use nonlinearity to break…