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This article investigates the unique determination of a radial refractive index n from spectral data. First, we demonstrate that for piecewise twice continuously differentiable functions, n is not uniquely determined by the special…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Kewen Bu , Youjun Deng , Yan Jiang , Kai Zhang

This article addresses the inverse problem of simultaneously recovering both the wave speed coefficient and an unknown initial condition (acting as the source) for the multidimensional wave equation from a single passive boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Yavar Kian , Hongyu Liu

We characterize the non-uniqueness in the inverse problem for the stationary transport model, in which the absorption "a" and the scattering coefficient "k" are to be recovered from the albedo operator. We show that "gauge equivalent" pairs…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-09-16 Plamen Stefanov , Alexandru Tamasan

Given a set of transmission eigenvalues, its density function inversely determines the form of the indicator function. This is one application of the Cartwright's theory in inverse problems. We use the indicator function inversely to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-07-02 Lung-Hui Chen

We consider inverse potential scattering problems where the source of the incident waves is located on a smooth closed surface outside of the inhomogeneity of the media. The scattered waves are measured on the same surface at a fixed value…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-10-12 Evgeny Lakshtanov , Boris Vainberg

Inverse problems of recovering the coefficients of Sturm-Liouville problems with the eigenvalue parameter linearly contained in one of the boundary conditions are studied: (1) from the sequences of eigenvalues and norming constants; (2)…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2008-03-06 Namig J. Guliyev

For the direct problem, we give the asymptotic distribution of the (real and non-real) transmission eigenvalues for the Schrodinger operator on the half line. For the inverse problem, we prove that the potential can be uniquely determined…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-05-07 Xiao-Chuan Xu

This paper analyzes inverse scattering for the one-dimensional Helmholtz equation in the case where the wave speed is piecewise constant. Scattering data recorded for an arbitrarily small interval of frequencies is shown to determine the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-26 Sophia Bugarija , Peter C. Gibson , Guanghui Hu , Peijun Li , Yue Zhao

Let $q(x)$ be real-valued compactly supported sufficiently smooth function. It is proved that the scattering data $A(\beta,\alpha_0,k)$ $\forall \beta\in S^2$, $\forall k>0,$ determine $q$ uniquely. Here $\alpha_0\in S^2$ is a fixed…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 A. G. Ramm

We are concerned with time-dependent inverse source problems in elastodynamics. The source term is supposed to be the product of a spatial function and a temporal function with compact support. We present frequency-domain and time-domain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-04 Gang Bao , Guanghui Hu , Yavar Kian , Tao Yin

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

We establish various uniqueness results for inverse spectral problems of Sturm-Liouville operators with a finite number of discontinuities at interior points at which we impose the usual transmission conditions. We consider both the case of…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2012-10-04 Mohammad Shahriari , Aliasghar Jodayree Akbarfam , Gerald Teschl

We study the recovery of square-integrable signals from the absolute values of their wavelet transforms, also called wavelet phase retrieval. We present a new uniqueness result for wavelet phase retrieval. To be precise, we show that any…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Rima Alaifari , Francesca Bartolucci , Matthias Wellershoff

In this article, we prove a uniqueness result for a coefficient inverse problems regarding a wave, a heat or a Schr\"odinger equation set on a tree-shaped network, as well as the corresponding stability result of the inverse problem for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-07-22 Lucie Baudouin , Masahiro Yamamoto

Let $c$ be a piecewise smooth wave speed on $\mathbb R^n$, unknown inside a domain $\Omega$. We are given the solution operator for the scalar wave equation $(\partial_t^2-c^2\Delta)u=0$, but only outside $\Omega$ and only for initial data…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-11 Peter Caday , Maarten V. de Hoop , Vitaly Katsnelson , Gunther Uhlmann

This article is concerned with an inverse problem of simultaneously determining a spatially varying coefficient and a Robin coefficient for a one-dimensional fractional diffusion equation with a time-fractional derivative of order…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-23 Xiaohua Jing , Zhiyuan Li , Masahiro Yamamoto

Recently, a new eigenvalue problem, called the transmission eigenvalue problem, has attracted many researchers. The problem arose in inverse scattering theory for inhomogeneous media and has important applications in a variety of inverse…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-23 Ruihao Huang , Allan A. Struthers , Jiguang Sun , Ruming Zhang

This paper is concerned with uniqueness in inverse acoustic scattering with phaseless far-field data at a fixed frequency. The main difficulty of this problem is the so-called translation invariance property of the modulus of the far-field…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-26 Xiaoxu Xu , Bo Zhang , Haiwen Zhang

The Schroedinger equation on the half line is considered with a real-valued, integrable potential having a finite first moment. It is shown that the potential and the boundary conditions are uniquely determined by the data containing the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tuncay Aktosun , Ricardo Weder

Consider a symmetric matrix $A(v)\in\RR^{n\times n}$ depending on a vector $v\in\RR^n$ and satisfying the property $A(\alpha v)=A(v)$ for any $\alpha\in\RR\backslash{0}$. We will here study the problem of finding $(\lambda,v)\in\RR\times…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2012-12-04 Elias Jarlebring , Simen Kvaal , Wim Michiels