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We consider the inverse scattering problem to reconstruct a local perturbation of a given inhomogeneous periodic layer in $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d=2,3$, using near field measurements of the scattered wave on an open set of the boundary above the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Alexander Konschin , Armin Lechleiter

Stability results for the Helmholtz equations in both deterministic and random periodic structures are proved in this paper. Under the assumption of excluding resonances, by a variational method and Fourier analysis in the energy space, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-20 Gang Bao , Yiwen Lin , Xiang Xu

We study the fractional Schr\"odinger equation with quasilocal perturbations. These are a family of nonlocal perturbations vanishing at infinity, which include e.g. convolutions against Schwartz functions. We show that the qualitative…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-22 Giovanni Covi

In this paper, we consider the inverse boundary value problem of the elliptic operator $\Delta+q$ in a fixed region $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^3$ with unknown embedded obstacles $D$. In particular, we give a new and simple proof to uniquely…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Chengyu Wu , Jiaqing Yang

We generalize the factorization method for inverse medium scattering using a particular factorization of the difference of two far field operators. Whilst the factorization method been used so far mainly to identify the shape of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-05 Evgeny Lakshtanov , Armin Lechleiter

We study a stationary scattering problem related to the nonlinear Helmholtz equation $-\Delta u - k^2 u = f(x,u) \ \ \text{in $\mathbb{R}^N$,}$ where $N \ge 3$ and $k>0$. For a given incident free wave $\varphi \in L^\infty(\mathbb{R}^N)$,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-10 Huyuan Chen , Gilles Evéquoz , Tobias Weth

For the Hamiltonian operator H = -{\Delta}+V(x) of the Schr\"odinger Equation with a repulsive potential, the problem of local decay is considered. It is analyzed by a direct method, based on a new, L^2 bounded, propagation observable. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-11-22 Avy Soffer

In this paper, the asymptotic behavior of the solutions of a monotone problem posed in a locally periodic oscillating domain is studied. Nonlinear monotone boundary conditions are imposed on the oscillating part of the boundary whereas the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-30 S. Aiyappan , G. Cardone , C. Perugia , R. Prakash

We consider the inverse boundary value problem of the simultaneous determination of the coefficients $\sigma$ and $q$ of the equation $-\mbox{div}(\sigma \nabla u)+qu = 0$ from knowledge of the so-called Neumann-to-Dirichlet map, given…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-26 Niall Donlon , Romina Gaburro

We study the strong unique continuation property backwards in time for the nonlocal equation in $\mathbb{R}^{n} \times \mathbb{R}$ \begin{equation}\label{one} (\partial_t - \Delta)^{s} u = V(x,t)u \end{equation} for $s \in (0,1)$. Our main…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-06 Agnid Banerjee , Nicola Garofalo

We prove a uniqueness result for Nevanlinna functions. and this result is then used to give an elementary proof of the uniqueness in the inverse scattering problem for the equation $ u" + \frac{k^2}{c^2}u=0 $ on $\mathbb R$. Here $c$ is a…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2014-12-19 Ingrid Beltita , Renata Bunoiu

We consider the scattering of time-harmonic plane waves by a compactly supported inhomogeneous scattering obstacle governed by the Helmholtz equation. Given far field observations of the scattered fields corresponding to plane wave incident…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Roland Griesmaier , Bastian Harrach , Jianli Xiang

We consider the inverse problem of reconstructing inhomogeneities by performing a finite number of scattering measurements of acoustic type in the time-harmonic setting. We set up the reconstruction as a fully discrete variational problem…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Daniela Di Donato , Luca Rondi

The local behavior of the lowest order boundary element method on quasi-uniform meshes for Symm's integral equation and the stabilized hyper-singular integral equation on polygonal/polyhedral Lipschitz domains is analyzed. We prove local a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-07 Markus Faustmann , Jens Markus Melenk

We study the higher-order fractional Schr\"odinger equation with local nonlinear perturbations and investigate both the forward and inverse problems. We establish both the Sobolev $H^s$ and H\"older $C^s$ estimates for the well-posedness of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Giovanni Covi , Ru-Yu Lai , Lili Yan

We establish local boundedness and local H\"older continuity of weak solutions to the following prototype problem: $$ -\operatorname{div}\left(|x|^{-2 \beta}|\nabla u|^{\mathbf{q}-2} \nabla u\right)+(-\Delta)_{p(\cdot, \cdot),…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-16 Juan Pablo Alcon Apaza

We consider positive solutions, possibly unbounded, to the semilinear equation $-\Delta u=f(u)$ on continuous epigraphs bounded from below. Under the homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition, we prove new monotonicity results for $u$, when…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-10 Nicolas Beuvin , Alberto Farina , Berardino Sciunzi

We study the nonlinear Helmholtz equation $(\Delta - \lambda^2)u = \pm |u|^{p-1}u$ on $\mathbb{R}^n$, $\lambda > 0$, $p \in \mathbb{N}$ odd, and more generally $(\Delta_g + V - \lambda^2)u = N[u]$, where $\Delta_g$ is the (positive)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-12-27 Jesse Gell-Redman , Andrew Hassell , Jacob Shapiro

An inverse problem of finding an obstacle and the boundary condition on its surface from the fixed-energy scattering data is studied. A new method is developed for a proof of the uniqueness results. The method does not use the discreteness…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. G. Ramm

In this article we study an inverse problem for the space-time fractional parabolic operator $(\partial_t-\Delta)^s+Q$ with $0<s<1$ in any space dimension. We uniquely determine the unknown bounded potential $Q$ from infinitely many…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-22 Ru-Yu Lai , Yi-Hsuan Lin , Angkana Rüland