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We study the inverse problem of recovery a non-linearity $f(x,u)$, which is compactly supported in $x$, in the semilinear wave equation $u_{tt}-\Delta u+ f(x,u)=0$. We probe the medium with either complex or real-valued harmonic waves of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-20 Antônio Sá Barreto , Plamen Stefanov

We consider an inverse problem for a Lorentzian spacetime $(M,g)$, and show that time measurements, that is, the knowledge of the Lorentzian time separation function on a submanifold $\Sigma\subset M$ determine the $C^\infty$-jet of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-15 Matti Lassas , Lauri Oksanen , Yang Yang

We consider an inverse problem for Laplacians on rotationally symmetric manifolds, which are finite for the transversal direction and periodic with respect to the axis of the manifold, i.e., Laplacians on tori. We construct an infinite…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-01-31 Hiroshi Isozaki , Evgeny L. Korotyaev

The paper studies inverse problems of determining unknown coefficients in various semi-linear and quasi-linear wave equations. We introduce a method to solve inverse problems for non-linear equations using interaction of three waves, that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-10 Ali Feizmohammadi , Matti Lassas , Lauri Oksanen

We formulate an inverse problem for an uncoupled space-time fractional Schr\"odinger equation on closed manifolds. Our main goal is to determine the fractional powers and the Riemannian metric (up to an isometry) simultaneously from the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Li Li

We show that a partial Dirichlet-to-Neumann map, where the measurement set is arbitrarily small, uniquely determines the time-dependent nonlinearity of order three or higher in a semi-linear wave equation up to natural obstructions on a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-13 Boya Liu , Weinan Wang

We study the inverse problem of unique recovery of a complex-valued scalar function $V:\mathcal M \times \mathbb C\to \mathbb C$, defined over a smooth compact Riemannian manifold $(\mathcal M,g)$ with smooth boundary, given the Dirichlet…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-10 Ali Feizmohammadi , Lauri Oksanen

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 recovers Hermitian connections of semi-linear wave equations with cubic nonlinearity. The main novelty is in the geometric generality: we treat the case of an arbitrary globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifold. Our approach is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Lauri Oksanen , Ruochong Zhang

This paper concerns the random source problems for the time-harmonic acoustic and elastic wave equations in two and three dimensions. The goal is to determine the compactly supported external force from the radiated wave field measured in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-03 Jianliang Li , Tapio Helin , Peijun Li

We show that the scattering operator for defocusing energy critical semilinear wave equations \square u+f(u)=0, with f C-infinity and f ~ u^5, in three space dimensions, determines f.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Antônio Sá Barreto , Gunther Uhlmann , Yiran Wang

We consider wave equations on Lorentzian manifolds in case of low regularity. We first extend the classical solution theory to prove global unique solvability of the Cauchy problem for distributional data and right hand side on smooth…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-04-07 Guenther Hoermann , Michael Kunzinger , Roland Steinbauer

Let $L_0$ be a closed densely defined symmetric semi-bounded operator with nonzero defect indexes in a separable Hilbert space ${\cal H}$. With $L_0$ we associate a metric space $\Omega_{L_0}$ that is named a {\it wave spectrum} and…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2010-04-13 M. I. Belishev

In this paper, we consider the inverse boundary problems of recovering the time-dependent nonlinearity and damping term for a semilinear wave equation on a Riemannian manifold. The Carleman estimate and the construction of Gaussian beams…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-12-08 Song-Ren Fu

We analyze the inverse problem, originally formulated by Dix in geophysics, of reconstructing the wave speed inside a domain from boundary measurements associated with the single scattering of seismic waves. We consider a domain $\tilde M$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-12-04 Maarten V. de Hoop , Sean F. Holman , Einar Iversen , Matti Lassas , Bjørn Ursin

We consider the wave equation $(\p_t^2-\Delta_g)u(t,x)=f(t,x)$, in $\R^n$, $u|_{\R_-\times \R^n}=0$, where the metric $g=(g_{jk}(x))_{j,k=1}^n$ is known outside an open and bounded set $M\subset \R^n$ with smooth boundary $\p M$. We define…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-11-12 Tapio Helin , Matti Lassas , Lauri Oksanen

We consider inverse problems for the Einstein equation with a time-depending metric on a 4-dimensional globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifold $(M,g)$. We formulate the concept of active measurements for relativistic models. We do this by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-05-30 Yaroslav Kurylev , Matti Lassas , Gunther Uhlmann

Given a conformally transversally anisotropic manifold $(M,g)$, we consider the semilinear elliptic equation $$(-\Delta_{g}+V)u+qu^2=0\quad \text{on $M$}.$$ We show that an a priori unknown smooth function $q$ can be uniquely determined…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-29 Ali Feizmohammadi , Tony Liimatainen , Yi-Hsuan Lin

We study inverse boundary problems for semilinear Schr\"odinger equations on smooth compact Riemannian manifolds of dimensions $\ge 2$ with smooth boundary, at a large fixed frequency. We show that certain classes of cubic nonlinearities…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Katya Krupchyk , Shiqi Ma , Suman Kumar Sahoo , Mikko Salo , Simon St-Amant

We propose and study several inverse boundary problems associated with a quasilinear hyperbolic equation of the form ${c(x)^{-2}}\partial_t^2u=\Delta_g(u+F(x, u))+G(x, u)$ on a compact Riemannian manifold $(M, g)$ with boundary. We show…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-18 Yan Jiang , Hongyu Liu , Tianhao Ni , Kai Zhang