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It is shown that the contraction mapping principle with the involvement of a Carleman Weight Function works for a Coefficient Inverse Problem for a 1D hyperbolic equation. Using a Carleman estimate, the global convergence of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-23 Thuy T. Le , Michael V. Klibanov , Loc H. Nguyen , Anders Sullivan , Lam Nguyen

In this work, we present some new Carleman inequalities for Stokes and Oseen equations with non-homogeneous boundary conditions. These estimates lead to log type stability inequalities for the problem of recovering the solution of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-19 Mehdi Badra , Fabien Caubet , Jérémi Dardé

This work addresses an inverse problem for a semi-discrete parabolic equation, consisting of identifying the right-hand side of the equation from solution measurements at an intermediate time and within a spatial subdomain. We apply this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Rodrigo Lecaros , Juan López-Ríos , Ariel A. Pérez

We establish bounds for the covariance of a large class of functions of infinite variance stable random variables, including unbounded functions such as the power function and the logarithm. These bounds involve measures of dependence…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-11-10 Vladas Pipiras , Murad S. Taqqu , Patrice Abry

We consider the Kelvin-Voigt model for the viscoelasticity, and prove a Carleman estimate for functions without compact supports. Then we apply the Carleman estimate to prove the Lipschitz stability in determining a spatial varying function…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-08 O. Y. Imanuvilov , M. Yamamoto

Varying coefficient model is often used in statistical modeling since it is more flexible than the parametric model. However, model detection and variable selection of varying coefficient model are poorly understood in mode regression.…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-09-23 Xuejun Ma , Yue Du , Jingli Wang

We consider elliptic variational inequalities generated by obstacle type problems with thin obstacles. For this class of problems, we deduce estimates of the distance (measured in terms of the natural energy norm) between the exact solution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-18 Darya E. Apushkinskaya , Sergey I. Repin

We unify and extend the semigroup and the PDE approaches to stochastic maximal regularity of time-dependent semilinear parabolic problems with noise given by a cylindrical Brownian motion. We treat random coefficients that are only…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-12 Pierre Portal , Mark Veraar

We deal with the obstacle problem for the porous medium equation in the slow diffusion regime $m>1$. Our main interest is to treat fairly irregular obstacles assuming only boundedness and lower semicontinuity. In particular, the considered…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-23 Riikka Korte , Pekka Lehtelä , Stefan Sturm

We consider an anisotropic hyperbolic equation with memory term: $$ \partial_t^2 u(x,t) = \sum_{i,j=1}^n \partial_i(a_{ij}(x)\partial_ju) + \int^t_0 \sum_{| \alpha| \le 2} b_{\alpha}(x,t,\eta)\partial_x^{\alpha}u(x,\eta) d\eta + F(x,t) $$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-06 Paola Loreti , Daniela Sforza , Masahiro Yamamoto

We survey some new results regarding a priori regularity estimates for the Boltzmann and Landau equations conditional to the boundedness of the associated macroscopic quantities. We also discuss some open problems in the area. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-14 Luis Silvestre

In this work, we consider optimality conditions of an optimal control problem governed by an obstacle problem. Here, we focus on introducing a, matrix valued, control variable as the coefficients of the obstacle problem. As it is well…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Nicolai Simon , Winnifried Wollner

We study the regularity of solutions to the fully nonlinear thin obstacle problem. We establish local $C^{1,\alpha}$ estimates on each side of the smooth obstacle, for some small $\alpha > 0$. Our results extend those of Milakis-Silvestre…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-15 Xavier Fernández-Real

In this paper, we investigate a discrete inverse problem of determining three unknowns, i.e. initial displacement, initial velocity and random source term, in a fully discrete approximation of one-dimensional stochastic hyperbolic equation.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Bin Wu , Xu Zhu , Wenwen Zhou , Zewen Wang

A Coefficient Inverse Problem for the radiative transport equation is considered. The globally convergent numerical method, the so-called convexification, is developed. For the first time, the viscosity solution is considered for a boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-17 Michael V. Klibanov , Jingzhi Li , Zhipeng Yang

Nowadays we have many methods allowing to exploit the regularising properties of the linear part of a nonlinear dispersive equation (such as the KdV equation, the nonlinear wave or the nonlinear Schroedinger equations) in order to prove…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-14 Nikolay Tzvetkov

We establish the null controllability of forward and backward linear stochastic parabolic equations with linear Robin (or Fourier) boundary conditions. These equations incorporate zero and first order terms with bounded coefficients. To…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-13 Said Boulite , Abdellatif Elgrou , Lahcen Maniar

The paper is concerned with a sequence of constants which appear in several problems. These problems include the minimal eigenvalue of certain positive definite Toeplitz matrices, the minimal eigenvalue of some higher-order ordinary…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 A. Boettcher , H. Widom

A new method is introduced for studying boundary value problems for a class of linear PDEs with {\it variable} coefficients. This method is based on ideas recently introduced by the author for the study of boundary value problems for PDEs…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 A. S. Fokas

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