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Inverse transport theory concerns the reconstruction of the absorption and scattering coefficients in a transport equation from knowledge of the albedo operator, which models all possible boundary measurements. Uniqueness and stability…

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Given a self-adjoint operator H, a self-adjoint trace class operator V and a fixed Hilbert-Schmidt operator F with trivial kernel and co-kernel, using limiting absorption principle an explicit set of full Lebesgue measure is defined such…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2018-12-21 Nurulla Azamov

Let $A(\beta,\alpha,k)$ be the scattering amplitude corresponding to a real-valued potential which vanishes outside of a bounded domain $D\subset \R^3$. The unit vector $\alpha$ is the direction of the incident plane wave, the unit vector…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-06-21 A. G. Ramm

We investigate uniqueness in the inverse problem of reconstructing simultaneously a spacewise conductivity function and a heat source in the parabolic heat equation from the usual conditions of the direct problem and additional information…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-10-30 Adriano De Cezaro , B. Tomas Johansson

The recovery of a spherically-symmetric wave speed $v$ is considered in a bounded spherical region of radius $b$ from the set of the corresponding transmission eigenvalues for which the corresponding eigenfunctions are also spherically…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-04-23 Tuncay Aktosun , Drossos Gintides , Vassilis G. Papanicolaou

We study the inverse problem of recovering a spatially dependent variable order in a time-fractional diffusion model from the boundary flux measurement generated by a single boundary excitation. It arises in the identification of…

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In this paper we develop a time reversal method for the radiative transport equation to solve two problems: an inverse problem for the recovery of an initial condition from boundary measurements, and the exact boundary controllability of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-08-06 Sebastian Acosta

This paper is concerned with uniqueness in inverse acoustic scattering with phaseless far-field data at a fixed frequency. In our previous work ({\em SIAM J. Appl. Math. \bf78} (2018), 1737-1753), by utilizing spectral properties of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-26 Xiaoxu Xu , Bo Zhang , Haiwen Zhang

This paper considers the inverse problem of recovering both the unknown, spatially-dependent conductivity $a(x)$ and the nonlinear reaction term $f(u)$ in a reaction-diffusion equation from overposed data. These measurements can consist of:…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Barbara Kaltenbacher , William Rundell

This paper is concerned with inverse scattering problems of determining the support of an isotropic and homogeneous penetrable body from knowledge of multi-static far-field patterns in acoustics and in linear elasticity. The normal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-11 Chun Liu , Guanghui Hu , Jianli Xiang , Jiayi Zhang

We show that the inverse problems for a class of kinetic equations can be solved by classical tools in PDE analysis including energy estimates and the celebrated averaging lemma. Using these tools, we give a unified framework for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Qin Li , Weiran Sun

This paper addresses the inverse problem of simultaneously recovering multiple unknown parameters for semilinear wave equations from boundary measurements. We consider an initial-boundary value problem for a wave equation with a general…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Dong Qiu , Xiang Xu , Yeqiong Ye , Ting Zhou

It is proved that the scattering amplitude $A(\beta, \alpha_0, k_0)$, known for all $\beta\in S^2$, where $S^2$ is the unit sphere in $\mathbb{R}^3$, and fixed $\alpha_0\in S^2$ and $k_0>0$, determines uniquely the surface $S$ of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-05-30 A. G. Ramm

This paper is concerned with the uniqueness in inverse acoustic scattering problems with the modulus of the far-field patterns co-produced by the obstacle (resp. medium) and the point sources. Based on the superposition of point sources as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Fenglin Sun , Deyue Zhang , Yukun Guo

Simple yet accurate results for radiative transfer in layered media with discontinuous refractive index are obtained by the method of K-integrals, originally developed for neutron transport analysis. These are certain weighted integrals…

Optics · Physics 2016-01-05 Adrian C Selden

It is proved that the scattering amplitude $A(\beta, \alpha_0, k_0)$, known for all $\beta\in S^2$, where $S^2$ is the unit sphere in $\mathbb{R}^3$, and fixed $\alpha_0\in S^2$ and $k_0>0$, determines uniquely the surface $S$ of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-15 A. G. Ramm

In this paper, we prove a uniqueness result in the inverse problem of determining several non-constant coefficients of one-dimensional reaction-diffusion equations. Such reaction-diffusion equations include the classical model of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-05-30 Michel Cristofol , Jimmy Garnier , Francois Hamel , Lionel Roques

In this article, for the radiative transport equation, we study inverse problems of determining a time independent scattering coefficient or total attenuation by boundary data on the complementary sub-boundary after making one time input of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-07-30 Manabu Machida , Masahiro Yamamoto

This paper concerns the reconstruction of the scattering coefficient in a two-dimensional transport equation from angularly averaged measurements when the probing source is isotropic and time-harmonic. This is a practical setting in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-10-17 Guillaume Bal , Francois Monard