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We extend the study of inverse boundary value problems to the setting of fully nonlinear PDEs by considering an inverse source problem for the Monge-Amp\`ere equation \[ \det D^2 u = F. \] We prove that, on a convex Euclidean domain in the…

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In this article, we investigate an inverse problem for a semi-linear wave equation posed on bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$, with $n \geq 2$. Our primary objective is to reconstruct the damping coefficient, the linear and nonlinear…

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Diverse inverse problems in imaging can be cast as variational problems composed of a task-specific data fidelity term and a regularization term. In this paper, we propose a novel learnable general-purpose regularizer exploiting recent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-19 Erich Kobler , Alexander Effland , Karl Kunisch , Thomas Pock

Many inverse problems include nuisance parameters which, while not of direct interest, are required to recover primary parameters. Structure present in these problems allows efficient optimization strategies - a well known example is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-05 Aleksandr Y. Aravkin , Tristan van Leeuwen

The problem of restoring images corrupted by Poisson noise is common in many application fields and, because of its intrinsic ill posedness, it requires regularization techniques for its solution. The effectiveness of such techniques…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-30 Daniela di Serafino , Germana Landi , Marco Viola

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…

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The problem of recovering acoustic sources, more specifically monopoles, from point-wise measurements of the corresponding acoustic pressure at a limited number of frequencies is addressed. To this purpose, a family of sparse optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-30 Konstantin Pieper , Bao Quoc Tang , Philip Trautmann , Daniel Walter

For $M$ a simple surface, the non-linear statistical inverse problem of recovering a matrix field $\Phi: M \to \mathfrak{so}(n)$ from discrete, noisy measurements of the $SO(n)$-valued scattering data $C_\Phi$ of a solution of a matrix ODE…

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Source conditions are a key tool in regularisation theory that are needed to derive error estimates and convergence rates for ill-posed inverse problems. In this paper, we provide a recipe to practically compute source condition elements as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-01 Martin Benning , Tatiana A. Bubba , Luca Ratti , Danilo Riccio

A key observation underlying this paper is the fact that the range invariance condition for convergence of regularization methods for nonlinear ill-posed operator equations -- such as coefficient identification in partial differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-26 Barbara Kaltenbacher

The Pauli--Villars regularization procedure confirms and sharpens the conclusions reached previously by covariant point splitting. The divergences in the stress tensor of a quantized scalar field interacting with a static scalar potential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-07 S. A. Fulling , T. E. Settlemyre , K. A. Milton

In this article, the problem of identifying the source term in transport processes given by a complete parabolic equation is studied mathematically from noisy measurements taken at an arbitrary fixed time. The problem is solved analytically…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-12 Guillermo Federico Umbricht , Diana Rubio

Singular charge sources in terms of Dirac delta functions present a well-known numerical challenge for solving Poisson's equation. For a sharp interface between inhomogeneous media, singular charges could be analytically treated by…

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Partial differential equations are central to describing many physical phenomena. In many applications these phenomena are observed through a sensor network, with the aim of inferring their underlying properties. Leveraging from certain…

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The problem of reconstructing a two-dimensional (2D) current distribution in a superconductor from a 2D magnetic field measurement is recognized as a first-kind integral equation and resolved using the method of Regularization.…

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In the present paper we consider minimization based formulations of inverse problems $(x,\Phi)\in\mbox{argmin}\{\mathcal{J}(x,\Phi;y)\colon(x,\Phi)\in M_{ad}(y) \}$ for the specific but highly relevant case that the admissible set…

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Tomographic reconstruction is an ill-posed inverse problem that calls for regularization. One possibility is to require sparsity of the unknown in an orthonormal wavelet basis. This in turn can be achieved by variational regularization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-17 Zenith Purisha , Juho Rimpeläinen , Tatiana Bubba , Samuli Siltanen

We initiate the study of inverse source problems for quasilinear elliptic equations of the form \[ \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} \nabla \cdot (\gamma(x,u,\nabla u) \nabla u) = F & \text{in } \Omega, \\ u = f & \text{on } \partial\Omega,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Tony Liimatainen , Shubham Jaiswal

The aim of this paper is to test and analyze a novel technique for image reconstruction in positron emission tomography, which is based on (total variation) regularization on both the image space and the projection space. We formulate our…

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This paper focuses on the analysis of conforming virtual element methods for general second-order linear elliptic problems with rough source terms and applies it to a Poisson inverse source problem with rough measurements. For the forward…

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