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We consider a smooth Riemannian metric tensor $g$ on $\R^n$ and study the stochastic wave equation for the Laplace-Beltrami operator $\p_t^2 u - \Delta_g u = F$. Here, $F=F(t,x,\omega)$ is a random source that has white noise distribution…
It is known that waves generated by ambient noise sources and recorded by passive receivers can be used to image the reflectivities of an unknown medium. However, reconstructing the reflectivity of the medium from partial boundary…
We study the Cauchy problem for the nonlinear wave equations (NLW) with random data and/or stochastic forcing on a two-dimensional compact Riemannian manifold without boundary. (i) We first study the defocusing stochastic damped NLW driven…
Passive imaging involves recording waves generated by uncontrolled, random sources and utilizing correlations of such waves to image the medium through which they propagate. In this paper, we focus on passive inverse obstacle scattering…
Passive imaging is a new technics which has been proved to be very efficient, for example in seismology: the correlation of the noisy fields between different points is strongly related to the Green function of the wave propagation. The aim…
We propose a high-dimensional white noise test that captures serial correlations within and across component series without specifying an alternative model. The test statistic is a U-statistic based on sample autocovariances. Under the…
We consider a 2D stochastic wave equation driven by a Gaussian noise, which is temporally white and spatially colored described by the Riesz kernel. Our first main result is the functional central limit theorem for the spatial average of…
We construct unique martingale solutions to the damped stochastic wave equation $$ \mu \frac{\partial^2u}{\partial t^2}(t,x)=\Delta u(t,x)-\frac{\partial u}{\partial t}(t,x)+b(t,x,u(t,x))+\sigma(t,x,u(t,x))\frac{dW_t}{dt},$$ where $\Delta$…
Passive imaging is a new technique which has been proved to be very efficient, for example in seismology: the correlation of the noisy fields, computed from the fields recorded at different points, is strongly related to the Green function…
We study the wave equation on a bounded domain of $\mathbb R^m$ and on a compact Riemannian manifold $M$ with boundary. We assume that the coefficients of the wave equation are unknown but that we are given the hyperbolic…
Waves can be used to probe and image an unknown medium. Passive imaging uses ambient noise sources to illuminate the medium. This paper considers passive imaging with moving sensors. The motivation is to generate large synthetic apertures,…
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…
We study the boundary rigidity problem with partial data consisting of determining locally the Riemannian metric of a Riemannian manifold with boundary from the distance function measured at pairs of points near a fixed point on the…
The spatially dependent wave speed of a stochastic wave equation driven by space-time white noise is estimated using the local observation scheme. Given a fixed time horizon, we prove asymptotic normality for an augmented maximum likelihood…
A theory for the characterization of the fourth moment of electromagnetic wave beams is presented in the case when the source is partially coherent. A Gaussian-Schell model is used for the partially coherent random source. The white-noise…
Starting with the Wigner distribution formulation for beam wave propagation in H\"{o}lder continuous non-Gaussian random refractive index fields we show that the wave beam regime naturally leads to the white-noise scaling limit and…
We consider the initial-value problem for stochastic continuity equations of the form $$ \partial_t \rho + \text{div}_h \left[\rho \left(u(t,x) + \sum_{i=1}^N a_i(x)\circ \frac{dW^i}{dt}\right)\right] = 0, $$ defined on a smooth closed…
The main object of this paper is the planar wave equation \[\bigg(\frac{\partial^2}{\partial t^2}-a^2\varDelta\bigg)U(x,t)=f(x,t),\quad t\ge0, x\in \mathbb {R}^2,\] with random source $f$. The latter is, in certain sense, a symmetric…
We consider the periodic solutions of a semilinear variable coefficient wave equation arising from the forced vibrations of a nonhomogeneous string and the propagation of seismic waves in nonisotropic media. The variable coefficient…
In this paper, we obtain the existence and uniqueness of the strong solution to one spatial dimension stochastic wave equation $\frac{\partial^2 u(t,x)}{\partial t^2}=\frac{\partial^2 u(t,x)}{\partial x^2}+\sigma(t,x,u(t,x))\dot{W}(t,x)$…