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Hybrid inverse problems are mathematical descriptions of coupled-physics (also called multi-waves) imaging modalities that aim to combine high resolution with high contrast. The solution of a high-resolution inverse problem, a first step…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-11-26 Guillaume Bal

We consider the inverse scattering problem to reconstruct a local perturbation of a given inhomogeneous periodic layer in $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d=2,3$, using near field measurements of the scattered wave on an open set of the boundary above the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Alexander Konschin , Armin Lechleiter

This work considers a nonlinear inverse source problem in a coupled diffusion equation from the terminal observation. Theoretically, under some conditions on problem data, we build the uniqueness theorem for this inverse problem and show…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Chunlong Sun , Wenlong Zhang , Zhidong Zhang

The present manuscript consists of inverse problems for a coupled system of wave equations with potential in $\mathbb{R}^3$. By establishing the fundamental solution to the aforementioned operator, we study the uniqueness aspects of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Rahul Bhardwaj , Manmohan Vashisth

This paper investigates two inexact Levenberg-Marquardt (LM) methods for solving systems of nonlinear equations. Both approaches compute approximate search directions by solving the LM linear system inexactly, subject to specific…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Bas Symoens , Morteza Rahimi , Masoud Ahookhosh

We consider the problem of determining the shape and location of an unknown penetrable object in a perfectly conducting electromagnetic waveguide. The inverse problem is posed in the frequency domain and uses multistatic data in the near…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Peter Monk , Virginia Selgas , Fan Yang

Given a fixed $\alpha \in (0,1)$, we study the inverse problem of recovering the isometry class of a smooth closed and connected Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$, given the knowledge of a source-to-solution map for the fractional Laplace…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-29 Ali Feizmohammadi

We introduce a method for solving Calder\'on type inverse problems for semilinear equations with power type nonlinearities. The method is based on higher order linearizations, and it allows one to solve inverse problems for certain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-01 Matti Lassas , Tony Liimatainen , Yi-Hsuan Lin , Mikko Salo

We consider how a closed Riemannian manifold $M$ and its metric tensor $g$ can be approximately reconstructed from local distance measurements. Moreover, we consider an inverse problem of determining $(M,g)$ from limited knowledge on the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-30 Charles Fefferman , Sergei Ivanov , Matti Lassas , Jinpeng Lu , Hariharan Narayanan

Under consideration are mathematical models of heat and mass transfer. We study inverse problems of recovering lower-order coefficients in a second order parabolic equation. The coefficients are representable in the form of a finite…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-23 S. G. Pyatkov , O. A. Soldatov

This paper is concerned with the inverse problem of constructing a symmetric nonnegative matrix from realizable spectrum. We reformulate the inverse problem as an underdetermined nonlinear matrix equation over a Riemannian product manifold.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-01 Zhi Zhao , Teng-Teng Yao , Zheng-Jian Bai , Xiao-Qing Jin

This paper provides a theoretical foundation for some common formulations of inverse problems in wave propagation, based on hyperbolic systems of linear integro-differential equations with bounded and measurable coefficients. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Kirk D. Blazek , Christiaan C. Stolk , William W. Symes

We consider an inverse problem for a Westervelt type nonlinear wave equation with fractional damping. This equation arises in nonlinear acoustic imaging, and we show the forward problem is locally well-posed. We prove that the smooth…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-01 Li Li , Yang Zhang

Inverse problems of recovering space-dependent parameters, e.g., initial condition, space-dependent source or potential coefficient, in a subdiffusion model from the terminal observation have been extensively studied in recent years.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-17 Bangti Jin , Yavar Kian , Zhi Zhou

It is shown that the space of null geodesics of a causally simple Lorentzian manifold is Hausdorff if it admits an open conformal embedding into a globally hyperbolic spacetime. This provides an obstruction to conformal embeddings of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-20 Jakob Hedicke , Stefan Suhr

We consider the inverse problem of determining some class of nonlinear terms appearing in an elliptic equation from boundary measurements. More precisely, we study the stability issue for this class of inverse problems. Under suitable…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-01 Yavar Kian

We study a general nonlinear parabolic equation on a Lipschitz bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^N$, \begin{equation*} \left\{\begin{array}{l l} \partial_t u-\mathrm{div} A(t,x,\nabla u)= f(t,x)&\text{in}\ \ \Omega_T,\\ u(t,x)=0 &\ \mathrm{ on}…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-14 Iwona Chlebicka , Piotr Gwiazda , Anna Zatorska-Goldstein

This article studies the inverse problem of recovering a nonlinearity in an elliptic equation $\Delta u + a(x,u) = 0$ from boundary measurements of solutions. Previous results based on first order linearization achieve this under a sign…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-08 David Johansson , Janne Nurminen , Mikko Salo

We present a novel approach for the inverse problem in electrical impedance tomography based on regularized quadratic regression. Our contribution introduces a new formulation for the forward model in the form of a nonlinear integral…

Geophysics · Physics 2012-05-29 Nick Polydorides , Alireza Aghasi , Eric L. Miller

This brief note wants to bring to attention that the formulation of physically reasonable initial-boundary value problems for wave equations in Lorentzian space-times is not unique, i.e., that there are inequivalent such formulations that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-11-20 Horst Reinhard Beyer