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Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-15 Peter Hintz , Antônio Sá Barreto , Gunther Uhlmann , Yang Zhang

We consider an inverse boundary value problem for a semilinear wave equation on a time-dependent Lorentzian manifold with time-like boundary. The time-dependent coefficients of the nonlinear terms can be recovered in the interior from the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-27 Peter Hintz , Gunther Uhlmann , Jian Zhai

We study inverse problems for the nonlinear wave equation $\square_g u + w(x,u, \nabla_g u) = 0$ in a Lorentzian manifold $(M,g)$ with boundary, where $\nabla_g u$ denotes the gradient and $w(x,u, \xi)$ is smooth and quadratic in $\xi$.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-02 Gunther Uhlmann , Yang Zhang

We construct counterexamples to inverse problems for the wave operator on domains in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$, $n \ge 2$, and on Lorentzian manifolds. We show that non-isometric Lorentzian metrics can lead to same partial data measurements, which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-27 Tony Liimatainen , Lauri Oksanen

We consider an inverse problem for a non-linear hyperbolic equation. We show that conformal structure of a Lorentzian manifold can be determined by the source-to-solution map evaluated along a single timelike curve. We use the microlocal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-12 Medet Nursultanov , Lauri Oksanen , Leo Tzou

We show that an inverse scattering problem for a semilinear wave equation can be solved on a manifold having an asymptotically Minkowskian infinity, that is, scattering functionals determine the topology, differentiable structure, and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-17 Spyros Alexakis , Hiroshi Isozaki , Matti Lassas , Teemu Tyni

We consider inverse problems in space-time $(M, g)$, a $4$-dimensional Lorentzian manifold. For semilinear wave equations $\square_g u + H(x, u) = f$, where $\square_g$ denotes the usual Laplace-Beltrami operator, we prove that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-21 Matti Lassas , Gunther Uhlmann , Yiran Wang

This paper concerns an inverse boundary value problem of recovering a zeroth order time-dependent term of a semi-linear wave equation on a globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifold. We show that an unknown potential $q$ in the non-linear wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Matti Lassas , Tony Liimatainen , Leyter Potenciano-Machado , Teemu Tyni

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

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 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 article is devoted to forward and inverse problems associated with time-independent semilinear nonlocal wave equations. We first establish comprehensive well-posedness results for some semilinear nonlocal wave equations. The main…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-09 Yi-Hsuan Lin , Teemu Tyni , Philipp Zimmermann

We study two inverse problems on a globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifold $(M,g)$. The problems are: 1. Passive observations in spacetime: Consider observations in a neighborhood $V\subset M$ of a time-like geodesic $\mu$. Under natural…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-09-22 Yaroslav Kurylev , Matti Lassas , Gunther Uhlmann

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

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

This paper addresses the inverse problem of simultaneously recovering multiple unknown parameters for semilinear wave equations from boundary measurements. We consider an initial-boundary value problem for a wave equation with a general…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Dong Qiu , Xiang Xu , Yeqiong Ye , Ting Zhou

Our work concerns the study of inverse problems of heat and wave equations involving the fractional Laplacian operator with zeroth order nonlinear perturbations. We recover nonlinear terms in the semilinear equations from the knowledge of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-10 Pu-Zhao Kow , Shiqi Ma , Suman Kumar Sahoo

We consider the semilinear wave equation $\Box_g u+a u^4=0$, $a\neq 0$, on a Lorentzian manifold $(M,g)$ with timelike boundary. We show that from the knowledge of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map one can recover the metric $g$ and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-16 Peter Hintz , Gunther Uhlmann , Jian Zhai

We study the inverse source problem for the semilinear wave equation \[ (\Box_g + q_1)u + q_2 u^2 = F, \] on a globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifold. We demonstrate that the coefficients $q_1$ and $q_2$, as well as the source term $F$,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Matti Lassas , Tony Liimatainen , Valter Pohjola , Teemu Tyni

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
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