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By using, the Vlasov-Poisson equation defined in either a Riemannian or a semi-Riemannian space $\mathbb{R}^k_g$, and a Dirac distribution function, we re-obtain the well known and classical equations of motion of a mechanical system with a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-12-30 Pedro Pablo Ortega Palencia , J. Guadalupe Reyes Victoria

We consider nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws, posed on a differential (n+1)-manifold with boundary referred to as a spacetime, and in which the "flux" is defined as a flux field of n-forms depending on a parameter (the unknown…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-10-02 Philippe G. LeFloch , Baver Okutmustur

We consider the following inverse problem: Suppose a $(1+1)$-dimensional wave equation on $\mathbb{R}_+$ with zero initial conditions is excited with a Neumann boundary data modelled as a white noise process. Given also the Dirichlet data…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Emilia L. K. Blåsten , Tapio Helin , Antti Kujanpää , Lauri Oksanen , Jesse Railo

In this paper, we study the following nonlinear problem of Kirchhoff type with pure power nonlinearities: (a+b\ds\int_{\R^3}|D u|^2\right)\Delta u+V(x)u=|u|^{p-1}u, u\in H^1(\R^3), u>0, $x\in \R^3, where $a,$ $b>0$ are constants, $2<p<5$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-06-06 Li Gongbao , Ye Hongyu

We study the problem of recovering a function on a pseudo-Riemannian manifold from its integrals over all null geodesics in three geometries: pseudo-Riemannian products of Riemannian manifolds, Minkowski spaces and tori. We give proofs of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-08-11 Joonas Ilmavirta

We develop a method for optimization in shape spaces, i.e., sets of surfaces modulo re-parametrization. Unlike previously proposed gradient flows, we achieve superlinear convergence rates through a subtle approximation of the shape Hessian,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-04-15 J. Balzer , S. Soatto

We consider an inverse problem of reconstructing the conductivity function in a hyperbolic equation using single space-time domain noisy observations of the solution on the backscattering boundary of the computational domain. We formulate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-21 Larisa Beilina , Kati Niinimäki

This paper analyzes the nonlinear correspondence between the reflectivity profile (model) and the plane wave impulse response at the boundary (data) for a three-dimensional half space consisting of a sequence of homogeneous horizontal…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-06-14 Peter C. Gibson

The main purpose of this article is to reconstruct the nonnegative coefficient $a$ in the double phase problem $\mathrm{div}\,(|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u+a|\nabla u|^{q-2}\nabla u)=0$ in a domain $\Omega$, $u=f$ on $\partial\Omega$, from the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-03 Cătălin I. Cârstea , Philipp Zimmermann

We consider the ultrasound imaging problem governed by a nonlinear wave equation of Westervelt type with variable wave speed. We show that the coefficient of nonlinearity can be recovered uniquely from knowledge of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-04 Sebastian Acosta , Gunther Uhlmann , Jian Zhai

The paper introduces a new way to construct dissipative solutions to a second order variational wave equation. By a variable transformation, from the nonlinear PDE one obtains a semilinear hyperbolic system with sources. In contrast with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-07-07 Alberto Bressan , Tao Huang

This paper investigates solution strategies for nonlinear problems in Hilbert spaces, such as nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) in Sobolev spaces, when only finite measurements are available. We formulate this as a nonlinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Daozhe Lin , Qiang Du

This is a survey on the analytic theory of linear wave equations on globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifolds. There is no claim of originality.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-06-14 Christian Baer

Several classes of self-similar, spherically symmetric solutions of relativistic wave equation with nonlinear term of the form sign(\phi) are presented. They are constructed from cubic polynomials in the scale invariant variable t/r. One…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-01-12 H. Arodz , J. Karkowski , Z. Swierczynski

We are concerned with the inverse boundary problem of determining anomalies associated with a semilinear elliptic equation of the form $-\Delta u+a(\mathbf x, u)=0$, where $a(\mathbf x, u)$ is a general nonlinear term that belongs to a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-25 Huaian Diao , Xiaoxu Fei , Hongyu Liu , Li Wang

We study the unique recovery of time-independent lower order terms appearing in the symmetric first order perturbation of the Riemannian wave equation by sending and measuring waves in disjoint open sets of \textit{a priori} known closed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-30 Matti Lassas , Boya Liu , Teemu Saksala , Andrew Shedlock , Ziyao Zhao

We consider an inverse problem for the Boltzmann equation on a globally hyperbolic Lorentzian spacetime $(M,g)$ with an unknown metric $g$. We consider measurements done in a neighbourhood $V\subset M$ of a timelike path $\mu$ that connects…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-29 Tracey Balehowsky , Antti Kujanpää , Matti Lassas , Tony Liimatainen

Given (M, g0) we consider the problem -{\epsilon}^2Delta_{g0+h}u + u = (u+)^{p-1} with ({\epsilon}, h) \in (0, {\epsilon}0) \times B{\rho}. Here B{\rho} is a ball centered at 0 with radius {\rho} in the Banach space of all Ck symmetric…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-12-30 Marco G. Ghimenti , Anna Maria Micheletti

The problem of finding a nonzero solution of a linear recurrence $Ly = 0$ with polynomial coefficients where $y$ has the form of a definite hypergeometric sum, related to the Inverse Creative Telescoping Problem of [14][Sec. 8], has now…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Antonio Jiménez-Pastor , Marko Petkovšek

We study the inverse problem of reconstructing the shape of unknown inclusions in semilinear elliptic equations with nonanalytic nonlinearities, by extending Ikehata's enclosure method to accommodate such nonlinear effects. To address the…

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