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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 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

In this paper, we introduce an inverse problem of a Schr\"odinger type variable nonlocal elliptic operator $(-\nabla\cdot(A(x)\nabla))^{s}+q)$, for $0<s<1$. We determine the unknown bounded potential $q$ from the exterior partial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-08-24 Tuhin Ghosh , Yi-Hsuan Lin , Jingni Xiao

We study global uniqueness in an inverse problem for the fractional semilinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation $(-\Delta)^{s}u+q(x,u)=0$ with $s\in (0,1)$. We show that an unknown function $q(x,u)$ can be uniquely determined by the Cauchy data…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-23 Ru-Yu Lai , Yi-Hsuan Lin

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

We study inverse problems for semilinear elliptic equations with fractional power type nonlinearities. Our arguments are based on the higher order linearization method, which helps us to solve inverse problems for certain nonlinear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-10 Tony Liimatainen , Yi-Hsuan Lin , Mikko Salo , Teemu Tyni

We investigate the monotonicity method for fractional semilinear elliptic equations with power type nonlinearities. We prove that if-and-only-if monotonicity relations between coefficients and the derivative of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-08 Yi-Hsuan Lin

We study the monotonicity and one-dimensional symmetry of positive solutions to the problem $-\Delta_p u = f(u)$ in $\mathbb{R}^N_+$ under zero Dirichlet boundary condition, where $p>1$ and $f:(0,+\infty)\to\mathbb{R}$ is a locally…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-14 Phuong Le

In this paper we prove the uniqueness and stability in determining a time-dependent nonlinear coefficient $\beta(t, x)$ in the Schr\"odinger equation $(i\partial_t + \Delta + q(t, x))u + \beta u^2 = 0$, from the boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-07 Ru-Yu Lai , Xuezhu Lu , Ting Zhou

We study the inverse problem of recovery a non-linearity $f(x,u)$, which is compactly supported in $x$, in the semilinear wave equation $u_{tt}-\Delta u+ f(x,u)=0$. We probe the medium with either complex or real-valued harmonic waves of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-20 Antônio Sá Barreto , Plamen Stefanov

This paper is devoted to the study of the existence of positive solutions for a problem related to a higher order fractional differential equation involving a nonlinear term depending on a fractional differential operator,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-02 Pablo Álvarez-Caudevilla , Eduardo Colorado , Alejandro Ortega

We prove the monotonicity of positive solutions to the problem $-\Delta u = f(u)$ in $\mathbb{R}^N_+ := \{(x',x_N)\in\mathbb{R}^N \mid x_N>0 \}$ under zero Dirichlet boundary condition with a possible singular nonlinearity $f$. In some…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Phuong Le

We consider a time-independent variable coefficients fractional porous medium equation and formulate an associated inverse problem. We determine both the conductivity and the absorption coefficient from exterior partial measurements of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-07 Li Li

The fractional Calder\'on problem asks to determine the unknown coefficients in a nonlocal, elliptic equation of fractional order from exterior measurements of its solutions. There has been substantial work on many aspects of this inverse…

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In this paper, we study the partial data inverse problem for nonlinear magnetic Schr\"odinger equations. We show that the knowledge of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map, measured on an arbitrary part of the boundary, determines the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-12 Ru-Yu Lai , Gunther Uhlmann , Lili Yan

We show that the knowledge of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann maps given on an arbitrary open non-empty portion of the boundary of a smooth domain in $\mathbb{R}^n$, $n\ge 2$, for classes of semilinear and quasilinear conductivity equations,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-04 Yavar Kian , Katya Krupchyk , Gunther Uhlmann

In this paper, we are concerned with the following type of fractional problems: $$ \begin{cases}\dis (-\Delta)^{s} u-\mu\frac{u}{|x|^{2s}}-\lambda u=|u|^{2^*_{s}-2}u+f(x,u), &\text{in} \Omega,\ \ \, u=0\,&\text{in} \R^N\backslash\Omega…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Lingyu Jin , Lang Li , Shaomei Fang

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

We consider inverse boundary value problems for elliptic equations of second order of determining coefficients by Dirichlet-to-Neumann map on subboundaries, that is, the mapping from Dirichlet data supported on $\partial\Omega\setminus…

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