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We consider for the time-dependent Maxwell's equations the inverse problem of identifying locations and certain properties of small electromagnetic inhomogeneities in a homogeneous background medium from dynamic measurements of the…

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A new algorithm is proposed for solving the three-dimensional scalar inverse problem of acoustic sounding in an inhomogeneous medium. The data for the algorithm are the complex amplitudes of the wave field measured outside the inhomogeneity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-26 A. B. Bakushinsky , A. S. Leonov

In this article, we study a direct and an inverse problem for the bi-wave operator $(\Box^2)$ along with second and lower order time-dependent perturbations. In the direct problem, we prove that the operator is well-posed, given initial and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Sombuddha Bhattacharyya , Pranav Kumar

This paper provides a theoretical foundation for some common formulations of inverse problems in wave propagation, based on hyperbolic systems of linear integro-differential equations with bounded and measurable coefficients. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Kirk D. Blazek , Christiaan C. Stolk , William W. Symes

This paper is concerned with the uniqueness on two inverse moving source problems in electrodynamics with partial boundary data. We show that (1) if the temporal source function is compactly supported, then the spatial source profile…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-24 Guanghui Hu , Yavar Kian , Peijun Li , Yue Zhao

We investigate wavepacket solutions for time-dependent Schoedinger equation in the presence of an exponentially decaying potential. Assuming for travelling wave solutions the phase to be a linear combination of the space and time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-11 Babur M. Mirza

In this work we investigate an inverse coefficient problem for the one-dimensional subdiffusion model, which involves a Caputo fractional derivative in time. The inverse problem is to determine two coefficients and multiple parameters (the…

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In this paper, we consider forward and inverse problems for subdiffusion equations with time-dependent coefficients. The fractional derivative is taken in the sense of Riemann-Liouville. Using the classical Fourier method, the theorem of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-02 Ravshan Ashurov , Yusuf Fayziev , Muattar Khudoykulova

The recovery of anomalies from backscattering far field data is a long-standing open problem in inverse scattering theory. We make a first step in this direction by establishing the unique identifiability of convex impenetrable obstacles…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Jialei Li , Xiaodong Liu , Qingxiang Shi

We consider an inverse acoustic scattering problem in simultaneously recovering an embedded obstacle and its surrounding inhomogeneous medium by formally determined far-field data. It is shown that the knowledge of the scattering amplitude…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Hongyu Liu , Xiaodong Liu

We consider an inverse boundary value problem for a semilinear wave equation on a time-dependent Lorentzian manifold with time-like boundary. The time-dependent coefficients of the nonlinear terms can be recovered in the interior from the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-27 Peter Hintz , Gunther Uhlmann , Jian Zhai

In this paper, we study the stability in the inverse problem of determining the time dependent absorption coefficient appearing in the linear Boltzmann equation, from boundary observations. We prove in dimension $n\geq 2$, that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Mourad Bellassoued , Yosra Boughanja

This work addresses an inverse reconstruction task for a time-fractional pseudo-parabolic model with a temporally varying coefficient. By imposing Dirichlet boundary conditions, we aim to recover the unknown initial state from observations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Arshyn Altybay

This paper is concerned with the problem of scattering of time-harmonic acoustic waves from an impenetrable obstacle in a piecewise homogeneous medium. The well-posedness of the direct problem is established, employing the integral equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-12-09 xiaodong Liu , Bo Zhang

We prove that the electromagnetic material parameters are uniquely determined by boundary measurements for the time-harmonic Maxwell equations in certain anisotropic settings. We give a uniqueness result in the inverse problem for Maxwell…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-19 Carlos E. Kenig , Mikko Salo , Gunther Uhlmann

Inverse problem to determine simultaneously a general space- and time-dependent source and an initial state in a fractional diffusion equation from an {\it a posteriori} measurement of the normal derivative of the state on a portion of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Jaan Janno

This paper is concerned with uniqueness results in inverse acoustic and electromagnetic scattering problems with phaseless total-field data at a fixed frequency. Motivated by our previous work ({\em SIAM J. Appl. Math. \bf78} (2018),…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-13 Xiaoxu Xu , Bo Zhang , Haiwen Zhang

In this paper, we first establish a weak unique continuation property for time-fractional diffusion-advection equations. The proof is mainly based on the Laplace transform and the unique continuation properties for elliptic and parabolic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-12 Daijun Jiang , Zhiyuan Li , Yikan Liu , Masahiro Yamamoto

We consider the inverse problem of identification of degenerate diffusion coefficient of the form $x^\alpha a(x)$ in a one dimensional parabolic equation by some extra data. We first prove by energy methods the uniqueness and Lipschitz…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-15 Piermarco Cannarsa , Anna Doubova , Masahiro Yamamoto

In this paper, we study an inverse problem of identifying two spatial-temporal source terms in the Schr\"odinger equation with dynamic boundary conditions from the final time overdetermination. We adopt a weak solution approach to solve the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Salah-Eddine Chorfi , Alemdar Hasanov , Roberto Morales