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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

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

We consider inverse obstacle and transmission scattering problems where the source of the incident waves is located on a smooth closed surface that is a boundary of a domain located outside of the obstacle/inhomogeneity of the media. The…

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

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

We consider a heat equation and a wave equation in a spatial interval over a time interval. This article deals with inverse problems of determining sizes of spatial intervals by extra boundary data of solutions of the governing equations.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-08 J. Apraiz , J. Cheng , A. Doubova , E. Fernández-Cara , M. Yamamoto

We derive an explicit method for reconstructing singularities of the initial data in a thermoacoustic tomography problem, in the case of variable sound speed and limited boundary data. In order to obtain this explicit formula we assume the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-05-19 Dustin Steinhauer

The transmission eigenvalues corresponding to the half-line Schr\"odinger equation with the general selfadjoint boundary condition is analyzed when the potential is real valued, integrable, and compactly supported. It is shown that a…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2016-10-06 Tuncay Aktosun , Vassilis G. Papanicolaou

The paper surveys recent progress in establishing uniqueness and developing inversion formulas and algorithms for the thermoacoustic tomography. In mathematical terms, one deals with a rather special inverse problem for the wave equation.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-02-02 M. Agranovsky , P. Kuchment , L. Kunyansky

We implement numerically formulas of [Isaev, Novikov, arXiv:2107.07882] for finding a compactly supported function $v$ on $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d\geq 1$, from its Fourier transform $\mathcal{F} [v]$ given within the ball $B_r$. For the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Mikhail Isaev , Roman G. Novikov , Grigory V. Sabinin

We study the inverse boundary value problem for the wave equation using the single-layer potential operator as the data. We assume that the data have frequency content in a bounded interval. We prove how to choose classes of nonsmooth…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-12 Kiril Datchev , Maarten V. de Hoop

In this paper we relate the matrix $S_B$ of the second moments of a spherically truncated normal multivariate to its full covariance matrix $\Sigma$ and present an algorithm to invert the relation and reconstruct $\Sigma$ from $S_B$. While…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-01-12 Filippo Palombi , Simona Toti , Romina Filippini

Given a set of transmission eigenvalues, we describe the connection of such a set to the indicator functions in entire function theory. The indicator functions control the asymptotic growth rate of the solution of the Sturm-Liouville…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-04-26 Lung-Hui Chen

We are concerned with the reconstruction of a one dimensional wave equation, where the potential is known in a neighborhood of one of the end points of the boundary. We show then the sought potential can be determined by one single…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-09 Amin Boumenir , Vu Kim Tuan

We analyze the mathematical model of multiwave tomography with a variable speed with integrating measurements on planes tangent to a sphere surrounding the source. We prove sharp uniqueness and stability estimates with full and partial data…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-05-04 Plamen Stefanov , Yang Yang

We address the problem of estimating time and frequency shifts of a known waveform in the presence of multiple measurement vectors (MMVs). This problem naturally arises in radar imaging and wireless communications. Specifically, a signal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Maral Safari , Sajad Daei , Farzan Haddadi

We revisit the problem of recovering wave speeds and density across a curved interface from reflected wave amplitudes. Such amplitudes have been exploited for decades in (exploration) seismology in this context. However, the analysis in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-10 Sombuddha Bhattacharyya , Maarten V. de Hoop , Vitaly Katsnelson , Gunther Uhlmann

We study the uniqueness and accuracy of the numerical solution of the problem of reconstruction of the shape and trajectory of a reflecting obstacle moving in an inhomogeneous medium from travel times, start and end points, and initial…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-01-17 Kamen M. Lozev

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

In spherical surface wave tomography, one measures the integrals of a function defined on the sphere along great circle arcs. This forms a generalization of the Funk--Radon transform, which assigns to a function its integrals along full…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-13 Ralf Hielscher , Daniel Potts , Michael Quellmalz

In this paper, we consider the inverse spectral problem of determining the spherically symmetric refractive index in a bounded spherical region of radius $b$. Instead of the usual case of the refractive index $\rho\in W^2_2$, by using…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Tao Liu , Kang Lyu , Guangsheng Wei , Chuan-Fu Yang
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