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By now Bayesian methods are routinely used in practice for solving inverse problems. In inverse problems the parameter or signal of interest is observed only indirectly, as an image of a given map, and the observations are typically further…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-02 Thibault Randrianarisoa , Botond Szabo

First passage distributions of semi-Markov processes are of interest in fields such as reliability, survival analysis, and many others. The problem of finding or computing first passage distributions is, in general, quite challenging. We…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-08-10 Richard L. Warr

A novel method to solve inverse problems for the wave equation is introduced. The method is a combination of the boundary control method and an iterative time reversal scheme, leading to adaptive imaging of coefficient functions of the wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Kenrick Bingham , Yaroslav Kurylev , Matti Lassas , Samuli Siltanen

We consider a problem of replication of random vectors by ordinary integrals in the setting when a underlying random variable is generated by a Wiener process. The goal is to find an optimal adapted process such that its cumulative integral…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-08-09 Nikolai Dokuchaev

In this paper, we present an inverse problem of identifying the reaction coefficient for time fractional diffusion equations in two dimensional spaces by using boundary Neumann data. It is proved that the forward operator is continuous with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-14 Xiaoyan Song , Guanghui Zheng , Lijian Jiang

The paper formulates Bayesian inverse problems for inference in a topological measure space given noisy observations. Conditions for the validity of the Bayes formula and the well-posedness of the posterior measure are studied. The abstract…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-05-11 Viet Ha Hoang

The inverse problem of determining the right-hand side of the subdiffusion equation with the fractional Caputo derivative is considered. The right-hand side of the equation has the form $f(x)g(t)$ and the unknown is function $f(x)$. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-28 Ravshan Ashurov , Shakarova Marjona

In this paper, we study the inverse problems of determining the unknown transverse shear force $g(t)$ in a system governed by the damped Euler-Bernoulli equation $\rho(x)u_{tt}+\mu(x)u_t+ (r(x)u_{xx})_{xx}+ (\kappa(x)u_{xxt})_{xx}=0,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-20 K. Sakthivel , A. Hasanov , D. Anjuna

This paper is dedicated to addressing the simultaneous inversion problem involving the initial value and space-dependent source term in a time-fractional diffusion-wave equation. Firstly, we establish the uniqueness of the inverse problem…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Yun Zhang , Xiaoli Feng , Xiongbin Yan

Consider the first passage percolation model on ${\bf Z}^d$ for $d\geq 2$. In this model we assign independently to each edge the value zero with probability $p$ and the value one with probability $1-p$. We denote by $T({\bf 0}, v)$ the…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Yu Zhang

We propose to solve inverse problems involving the temporal evolution of physics systems by leveraging recent advances from diffusion models. Our method moves the system's current state backward in time step by step by combining an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Benjamin J. Holzschuh , Simona Vegetti , Nils Thuerey

Inverse problems for a diffusion equation containing a generalized fractional derivative are studied. The equation holds in a time interval $(0,T)$ and it is assumed that a state $u$ (solution of diffusion equation) and a source $f$ are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-02-02 Jaan Janno

Consider a Wiener process $W$ on a circle of circumference $L$. We prove the rather surprising result that the Laplace transform of the distribution of the first time, $\theta_L$, when the Wiener process has visited every point of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-05-12 Philip Ernst , Larry Shepp

The inverse Ising problem consists in inferring the coupling constants of an Ising model given the correlation matrix. The fastest methods for solving this problem are based on mean-field approximations, but which one performs better in the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-08-28 Federico Ricci-Tersenghi

The analytical continuation of correlation functions from imaginary to real time is a crucial step in lattice gauge theories, and it challenges our ability to derive non-perturbative predictions from lattice simulations. We review aspects…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-10-15 Luigi Del Debbio , Alessandro Lupo , Marco Panero , Nazario Tantalo

It is considered the integrated process $X(t)= x + \int _0^t Y(s) ds ,$ where $Y(t)$ is a Gauss-Markov process starting from $y.$ The first-passage time (FPT) of $X$ through a constant boundary and the first-exit time of $X$ from an…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-03-02 Mario Abundo

The subject of this thesis is in the area of Applied Mathematics known as Inverse Problems. Inverse problems are those where a set of measured data is analysed in order to get as much information as possible on a model which is assumed to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-12-03 Andrea A. Almasy

This work investigates the inverse drift problem in the one-dimensional parabolic equation with the final time data. The authors construct an operator first, whose fixed points are the unknown drift, and then apply it to prove the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Dakang Cen , Wenlong Zhang , Zhidong Zhang

Let $u_t-u_{xx}=h(t)$ in $0\leq x \leq \pi, t\geq 0.$ Assume that $u(0,t)=v(t)$, $u(\pi,t)=0$, and $u(x,0)=g(t)$. The problem is: {\it what extra data determine the three unknown functions $\{h, v, g\}$ uniquely?}. This question is answered…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 A. G. Ramm

We study the inverse boundary crossing problem for diffusions. Given a diffusion process $X_t$, and a survival distribution $p$ on $[0,\infty)$, we demonstrate that there exists a boundary $b(t)$ such that $p(t)=\mathbb{P}[\tau >t]$, where…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-12-23 Xinfu Chen , Lan Cheng , John Chadam , David Saunders