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Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-15 Yiran Wang , Ting Zhou

We show that a partial Dirichlet-to-Neumann map, where the measurement set is arbitrarily small, uniquely determines the time-dependent nonlinearity of order three or higher in a semi-linear wave equation up to natural obstructions on a…

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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

We show that two non-isometric, smooth, globally hyperbolic Lorentzian metrics can have the same hyperbolic Dirichlet-to-Neumann map on an infinite cylinder with timelike boundary.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Lauri Oksanen , Miika Sarkkinen

We show that an inverse scattering problem for a semilinear wave equation can be solved on a manifold having an asymptotically Minkowskian infinity, that is, scattering functionals determine the topology, differentiable structure, and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-17 Spyros Alexakis , Hiroshi Isozaki , Matti Lassas , Teemu Tyni

We consider the restricted Dirichlet-to-Neumann map $\Lambda^{U,V}_{g,A,q}$ for the wave equation with magnetic potential $A$ and scalar potential $q$, on an admissible Lorentzian manifold $(M, g)$ of dimension $n \geq 3$ with boundary.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-21 Yuchao Yi , Yang Zhang

We study inverse problems for the nonlinear wave equation $\square_g u + w(x,u, \nabla_g u) = 0$ in a Lorentzian manifold $(M,g)$ with boundary, where $\nabla_g u$ denotes the gradient and $w(x,u, \xi)$ is smooth and quadratic in $\xi$.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-02 Gunther Uhlmann , Yang Zhang

This paper concerns an inverse boundary value problem of recovering a zeroth order time-dependent term of a semi-linear wave equation on a globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifold. We show that an unknown potential $q$ in the non-linear wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Matti Lassas , Tony Liimatainen , Leyter Potenciano-Machado , Teemu Tyni

We study two inverse problems on a globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifold $(M,g)$. The problems are: 1. Passive observations in spacetime: Consider observations in a neighborhood $V\subset M$ of a time-like geodesic $\mu$. Under natural…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-09-22 Yaroslav Kurylev , Matti Lassas , Gunther Uhlmann

We consider wave equations on Lorentzian manifolds in case of low regularity. We first extend the classical solution theory to prove global unique solvability of the Cauchy problem for distributional data and right hand side on smooth…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-04-07 Guenther Hoermann , Michael Kunzinger , Roland Steinbauer

This article is devoted to forward and inverse problems associated with time-independent semilinear nonlocal wave equations. We first establish comprehensive well-posedness results for some semilinear nonlocal wave equations. The main…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-09 Yi-Hsuan Lin , Teemu Tyni , Philipp Zimmermann

A generalized variant of the Calder\'on problem from electrical impedance tomography with partial data for anisotropic Lipschitz conductivities is considered in an arbitrary space dimension $n \geq 2$. The following two results are shown:…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2012-05-22 Jussi Behrndt , Jonathan Rohleder

We consider the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map $\Lambda$ on a cylinder-like Lorentzian manifold related to the wave equation related to the metric $g$, a magnetic field $A$ and a potential $q$. We show that we can recover the jet of $g,A,q$ on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-23 Plamen Stefanov , Yang Yang

We study the inverse problem of determining a time-dependent globally hyperbolic Lorentzian metric from the scattering operator for semilinear wave equations.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-15 Peter Hintz , Antônio Sá Barreto , Gunther Uhlmann , Yang Zhang

We consider inverse problems for a Westervelt equation with a strong damping and a time-dependent potential $q$. We first prove that all boundary measurements, including the initial data, final data, and the lateral boundary measurements,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-22 Li Li , Yang Zhang

We consider inverse problems in space-time $(M, g)$, a $4$-dimensional Lorentzian manifold. For semilinear wave equations $\square_g u + H(x, u) = f$, where $\square_g$ denotes the usual Laplace-Beltrami operator, we prove that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-21 Matti Lassas , Gunther Uhlmann , Yiran Wang

We consider the semilinear wave equation $\Box_g u+a u^4=0$, $a\neq 0$, on a Lorentzian manifold $(M,g)$ with timelike boundary. We show that from the knowledge of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map one can recover the metric $g$ and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-16 Peter Hintz , Gunther Uhlmann , Jian Zhai

We study the Lorentzian Calder\'on problem, where the objective is to determine a globally hyperbolic Lorentzian metric up to a boundary fixing diffeomorphism from boundary measurements given by the hyperbolic Dirichlet-to-Neumann map. This…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-30 Lauri Oksanen , Rakesh , Mikko Salo

We introduce a method of solving inverse boundary value problems for wave equations on Lorentzian manifolds, and show that zeroth order coefficients can be recovered under certain curvature bounds. The set of Lorentzian metrics satisfying…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-10 Spyros Alexakis , Ali Feizmohammadi , Lauri Oksanen

We consider an inverse problem for a hyperbolic partial differential equation on a compact Riemannian manifold. Assuming that $\Gamma_1$ and $\Gamma_2$ are two disjoint open subsets of the boundary of the manifold we define the restricted…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Matti Lassas , Lauri Oksanen
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