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A Coefficient Inverse Problem for the radiative transport equation is considered. The globally convergent numerical method, the so-called convexification, is developed. For the first time, the viscosity solution is considered for a boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-17 Michael V. Klibanov , Jingzhi Li , Zhipeng Yang

We show that the inverse problems for a class of kinetic equations can be solved by classical tools in PDE analysis including energy estimates and the celebrated averaging lemma. Using these tools, we give a unified framework for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Qin Li , Weiran Sun

We introduce a framework to consider transport problems for integer-valued random variables. We introduce weighting coefficients which allow us to characterize transport problems in a gradient flow setting, and form the basis of our…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-02-23 Erwan Hillion , Oliver Johnson

We consider an inverse boundary value problem for the doubly nonlinear parabolic equation \[ \epsilon(x)\partial_t u^m-\nabla\cdot\bigl(\gamma(x)|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u\bigr)=0 \quad\text{in }(0,T)\times\Omega, \] where…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Cătălin I. Cârstea , Tuhin Ghosh

In this paper, we consider Carleman estimates and inverse problems for the coupled quantitative thermoacoustic equations. In Part I, we establish Carleman estimates for the coupled quantitative thermoacoustic equations by assuming that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-06 Yunxia Shang , Shumin Li

We consider elliptic transmission problems with complex coefficients across an interface. Under proper transmission conditions, that extend known conditions for well-posedness, and sub-ellipticity we derive microlocal and local Carleman…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-05-10 Mourad Bellassoued , Jérôme Le Rousseau

In the article, some bilinear evolution equations in Hilbert space driven by paths of low regularity are considered and solved explicitly. The driving paths are scalar-valued and continuous, and they are assumed to have a finite $p$-th…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-24 Čoupek , Petr , Garrido-Atienza , María J

This paper concerns inverse problems for strongly coupled Schr\"odinger equations. The purpose of this inverse problem is to retrieve a stationary potential in the strongly coupled Schr\"odinger equations from either boundary or internal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-09 Xiaomin Zhu , Fangfang Dou

In this note, we derive upper-bounds on the statistical estimation rates of unbalanced optimal transport (UOT) maps for the quadratic cost. Our work relies on the stability of the semi-dual formulation of optimal transport (OT) extended to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-18 Adrien Vacher , François-Xavier Vialard

Given two probability measures $\mu$ and $\nu$ we consider a mass transportation mapping $T$ satisfying 1) $T$ sends $\mu$ to $\nu$, 2) $T$ has the form $T = \phi \frac{\nabla \phi}{|\nabla \phi|}$, where $\phi$ is a function with convex…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2013-06-27 Alexander V. Kolesnikov

We study the stability of the reconstruction of the scattering and absorption coefficients in a stationary linear transport equation from knowledge of the full albedo operator in dimension $n\geq3$. The albedo operator is defined as the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-02-19 Guillaume Bal , Alexandre Jollivet

This paper considers the inverse boundary value problem for the equation $\nabla\cdot(\sigma\nabla u+a|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u)=0$. We give a procedure for the recovery of the coefficients $\sigma$ and $a$ from the corresponding…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-03 Cătălin I. Cârstea , Manas Kar

In this article we present a new strategy of addressing the (variable coefficient) thin obstacle problem. Our approach is based on a (variable coefficient) Carleman estimate. This yields semi-continuity of the vanishing order, lower and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-01 Herbert Koch , Angkana Rüland , Wenhui Shi

We study an inverse problem for variable coefficient fractional parabolic operators of the form $(\partial_t -\operatorname{div}(A(x) \nabla_x)^s + q(x,t)$ for $s\in(0,1)$ and show the unique recovery of $q$ from exterior measured data.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Agnid Banerjee , Soumen Senapati

Let $u=u(t,{\bf x},{\bf p})$ satisfy the transport equation $\frac {\partial u}{\partial t}+\frac {{\bf p}}{p_0}\frac{\partial u}{\partial{\bf x}}=f$, where $f=f(t,\bf x,\bf p)$ belongs to $ L^{p}((0,T)\times {\bf R}^{3}\times {\bf R}^{3})$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-20 Jianjun Huang , Zhenglu Jiang

We consider inverse problems for the first and half order time fractional equation. We establish the stability estimates of Lipschitz type in inverse source and inverse coefficient problems by means of the Carleman estimates.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Atsushi Kawamoto , Manabu Machida

We consider a $2\times 2$ system of parabolic equations with first and zeroth coupling and establish a Carleman estimate by extra data of only one component without data of initial values. Then we apply the Carleman estimate to inverse…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-09-10 Assia Benabdallah , Michel Cristofol , Patricia Gaitan , Masahiro Yamamoto

We consider a divergence form hypoelliptic operator consisting of a system of real smooth vector fields $X_{1},..., X_{q}$ satisfying H\"ormander condition in some domain $\Omega\subseteq\erren$. Interior $L^{p}$ estimates, $2\leq…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-04-23 A. O. Caruso

In this paper we establish a global Carleman estimate for the fourth order Schr\"odinger equation posed on a $1-d$ finite domain. The Carleman estimate is used to prove the Lipschitz stability for an inverse problem consisting in retrieving…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-12-18 Chuang Zheng

Under consideration are mathematical models of heat and mass transfer. We study inverse problems of recovering lower-order coefficients in a second order parabolic equation. The coefficients are representable in the form of a finite…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-23 S. G. Pyatkov , O. A. Soldatov