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We study an inverse problem where an unknown radiating source is observed with collimated detectors along a single line and the medium has a known attenuation. The research is motivated by applications in SPECT and beam hardening. If…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-10 Tommi Brander , Joonas Ilmavirta , Petteri Piiroinen , Teemu Tyni

We consider the inverse scattering problem associated with any number of interacting modes in one-dimensional structures. The coupling between the modes is contradirectional in addition to codirectional, and may be distributed continuously…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-11-10 Ole Henrik Waagaard , Johannes Skaar

We consider the third-order linear differential equation $$\displaystyle\frac{d^3\psi}{dx^3}+Q(x)\,\displaystyle\frac{d\psi}{dx}+P(x)\,\psi=k^3\,\psi,\qquad x\in\mathbb R,$$ where the complex-valued potentials $Q$ and $P$ are assumed to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-06-12 Tuncay Aktosun , Ivan Toledo , Mehmet Unlu

The inverse problems about fractional Calder\'on problem and fractional Schr\"odinger equations are of interest in the study of mathematics. In this paper, we propose the inverse problem to simultaneously reconstruct potentials and sources…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-26 Xinyan Li

We consider the formally determined inverse problem of recovering an unknown time-dependent potential function from the knowledge of the restriction of the solution of the wave equation to a small subset, subject to a single external…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-10 Ali Feizmohammadi , Yavar Kian

A review of some of the author's results in the area of inverse scattering is given. The following topics are discussed: 1) Property $C$ and applications, 2) Stable inversion of fixed-energy 3D scattering data and its error estimate, 3)…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. G. Ramm

In this chapter, we mainly review theoretical results on inverse source problems for diffusion equations with the Caputo time-fractional derivatives of order $\alpha\in(0,1)$. Our survey covers the following types of inverse problems: 1.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-15 Yikan Liu , Zhiyuan Li , Masahiro Yamamoto

We study the inverse backscattering problem for time-dependent potentials. We prove uniqueness and Lipshitz stability for the recovery of small potentials.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-03 Medet Nursultanov , Lauri Oksanen , Plamen Stefanov

We consider the Schr\"odinger equation with a multipoint potential of Bethe-Peierls-Thomas-Fermi type. For this singular potential, we develop scattering and inverse scattering at high energies. In particular, in this framework, our results…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 P. C. Kuo , R. G. Novikov

This paper is concerned with analysis of electromagnetic wave scattering by an obstacle which is embedded in a two-layered lossy medium separated by an unbounded rough surface. Given a dipole point source, the direct problem is to determine…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Peijun Li , Jue Wang , Lei Zhang

We consider a certain first-order linear system of ordinary differential equations, and we analyze the direct and inverse scattering problems for that linear system. The linear system involves two potentials in the Schwartz class, and those…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Ramazan Ercan

This paper is concerned with an inverse random source problem for the three-dimensional time-harmonic Maxwell equations. The source is assumed to be a centered complex-valued Gaussian vector field with correlated components, and its…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-21 Peijun Li , Xu Wang

This article is devoted to the simultaneous resolution of three inverse problems, among the most important formulation of inverse problems for partial differential equations, stated for some class of diffusion equations from a single…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-16 Yavar Kian

This paper considers some open questions related to the inverse problem of pure point diffraction, in particular, what types of objects may diffract, and which of these may exhibit the same diffraction. Some diverse objects with the same…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-08-14 Venta Terauds

This paper considers the inverse problem of identifying the source term of parabolic equations from sparse boundary measurements. We used data from moving sensors to locate the unknown source term. This work first proves the uniqueness of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Qiling Gu , Wenlong Zhang , Zhidong Zhang

In this paper, we consider the numerical approximation of the Steklov eigenvalue problem that arises in inverse acoustic scattering. The underlying scattering problem is for an inhomogeneous isotropic medium. These eigenvalues have been…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-21 Isaac Harris

Two main aims of this paper are to develop a numerical method to solve an inverse source problem for parabolic equations and apply it to solve a nonlinear coefficient inverse problem. The inverse source problem in this paper is the problem…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-06 Phuong Mai Nguyen , Loc Hoang Nguyen

We study the inverse problem of locating point sources from far-field data under plane wave incidence. A direct computational method is developed based on multiple scattering theory, using a novel indicator function to avoid iterative…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-18 Nana Meng

We consider the multi-frequency inverse source problem in the presence of a non-homogeneous medium using passive measurements. Precisely, we derive stability estimates for determining the source from the knowledge of only the imaginary part…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-23 Faouzi Triki , Kristoffer Linder-Steinlein , Mirza Karamehmedovic

The inverse acoustic scattering of point objects using multi-frequency sparse measurements are studied. The objects may be a sum of point sources or point like scatterers. We show that the locations and scattering strengths of the point…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-14 Xia Ji , Xiaodong Liu