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We analyse an inverse problem for water waves posed by Richard Feynman in the BBC documentary Fun to Imagine. The problem can be modelled as an inverse Cauchy problem for gravity-capillary waves on a bounded domain. We do a detailed…

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We survey some of our recent results on inverse problems for evolution equations. The goal is to provide a unified approach to solve various types of evolution equations. The inverse problems we consider consist in determining unknown…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-09 Kaïs Ammari , Mourad Choulli , Faouzi Triki

This paper investigates an inverse random source problem for stochastic evolution equations, including stochastic heat and wave equations, with the unknown source modeled as $g(x)f(t)\dot{W}(t)$. The research commences with the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-22 Xu Wang , Guanlin Yang , Zhidong Zhang

We study the uniqueness question for two inverse problems on graphs. Both problems consist in finding (possibly complex) edge or nodal based quantities from boundary measurements of solutions to the Dirichlet problem associated with a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-10-13 Justin Boyer , Jack J. Garzella , Fernando Guevara Vasquez

We consider Sturm-Liouville operators on geometrical graphs without cycles (trees) with singular potentials from the class $W_2^{-1}$. We suppose that the potentials are known on a part of the graph, and study the so-called partial inverse…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2017-11-16 Natalia P. Bondarenko

For the heat equation in a bounded domain we give a stability result for a smooth diffusion coefficient. The key ingredients are a global Carleman-type estimate, a Poincar\'e-type estimate and an energy estimate with a single observation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-06-12 Patricia Gaitan

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 this article, we provide a modified argument for proving conditional stability for inverse problems of determining spatially varying functions in evolution equations by Carleman estimates. Our method needs not any cut-off procedures and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-30 X. Huang , O. Yu. Imanuvilov , M. Yamamoto

In this paper, we study the stability of two inverse boundary value problems in an infinite slab with partial data. These problems have been studied by Li and Uhlmann for the case of the Schrodinger equation and by Krupchyk, Lassas and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-01 Pedro Caro , Kaloyan Marinov

We study the problem of finding the resistors in a resistor network from measurements of the power dissipated by the resistors under different loads. We give sufficient conditions for local uniqueness, i.e. conditions that guarantee that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-22 Marcus Corbett , Fernando Guevara Vasquez , Alexander Royzman , Guang Yang

We consider a strongly damped wave equation on compact manifolds, both with and without boundaries, and formulate the corresponding inverse problems. For closed manifolds, we prove that the metric can be uniquely determined, up to an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-29 Li Li , Yang Zhang

We prove a global H\"older stability estimate for a hybrid inverse problem combining microwave imaging and ultrasound. The principal features of this result are that we assume to have access to measurements associated to a single, arbitrary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-19 Giovanni Alessandrini

We study an inverse initial-data problem for a nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation in which the initial wave field is reconstructed from lateral measurements. Our approach combines a Legendre-polynomial-exponential-time dimensional reduction…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Navaraj Neupane , Loc Nguyen

The paper is concerned with an inverse point source problem for the Helmholtz equation. It consists of recovering the locations and amplitudes of a finite number of radiative point sources inside a given inhomogeneous medium from the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-01 Gang Bao , Yuantong Liu , Faouzi Triki

The Schroedinger equation is considered on the line when the potential is real valued, compactly supported, and square integrable. The nonuniqueness is analyzed in the recovery of such a potential from the data consisting of the ratio of a…

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This article develops the numerical and theoretical study of a reconstruction algorithm of a potential in a wave equation from boundary measurements, using a cost functional built on weighted energy terms coming from a Carleman estimate.…

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We study the inverse problem for a semilinear wave equation on metric tree graphs. From the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map defined at all but one of the boundary vertices, we recover unknown connectivity of the graph, lengths of the edges, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Sergei Avdonin , Matti Lassas , Jinpeng Lu , Medet Nursultanov , Lauri Oksanen

This paper concerns the inverse source problems for the time-harmonic elastic and electromagnetic wave equations. The goal is to determine the external force and the electric current density from boundary measurements of the radiated wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-17 Gang Bao , Peijun Li , Yue Zhao

For many wave propagation problems with random sources it has been demonstrated that cross correlations of wave fields are proportional to the imaginary part of the Green function of the underlying wave equation. This leads to the inverse…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-11 Alexey Agaltsov , Thorsten Hohage , Roman Novikov

Using Carleman estimates, we give a lower bound for solutions to the discrete Schr\"odinger equation in both dynamic and stationary settings that allows us to prove uniqueness results, under some assumptions on the decay of the solutions.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-09 Aingeru Fernández-Bertolin , Luis Vega