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We consider inverse problems consisting of the reconstruction of an unknown signal $f$ from noisy measurements $y=Ff+\text{noise}$, where $Ff$ is a function on a Riemannian manifold without boundary $\mathcal M$. We consider the case when…

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We consider an inverse problem for a Westervelt type nonlinear wave equation with fractional damping. This equation arises in nonlinear acoustic imaging, and we show the forward problem is locally well-posed. We prove that the smooth…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-01 Li Li , Yang Zhang

We consider the Klein-Gordon equation on asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetimes, and show that the forward Dirichlet-to-Neumann map (or scattering matrix) is a fractional power of the boundary wave operator modulo lower order terms in the…

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We study an inverse problem of determining a time-dependent damping coefficient and potential appearing in the wave equation in a compact Riemannian manifold of dimension three or higher. More specifically, we are concerned with the case of…

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We prove that the knowledge of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map, measured on a part of the boundary of a bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^n, n\geq2$, can uniquely determine, in a nonlinear magnetic Schr\"odinger equation, the vector-valued…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-07 Ru-Yu Lai , Ting Zhou

We study the inverse problems for the second order hyperbolic equations of general form with time-dependent coefficients assuming that the boundary data are given on a part of the boundary. The main result of this paper is the determination…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-07-18 Gregory Eskin

We consider the problem of small data global existence for quasilinear wave equations with null condition on a class of Lorentzian manifolds $(\mathbb{R}^{3+1}, g)$ with \textbf{time dependent} inhomogeneous metric. We show that…

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We deal with two dynamical systems associated with a Riemannian manifold with boundary. The first one is a system governed by the scalar wave equation, the second is governed by the Maxwell equations. Both of the systems are controlled from…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 M. I. Belishev , M. N. Demchenko

We consider an inverse problem of recovering a potential associated to a semi-linear wave equation with a quadratic nonlinearity in $1 + 1$ dimensions. We develop a numerical scheme to determine the potential from a noisy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-18 Matti Lassas , Tony Liimatainen , Leyter Potenciano-Machado , Teemu Tyni

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

In this article we deal with a class of geometric inverse problem for bottom detection by one single measurement on the free surface in water--waves. We found upper and lower bounds for the size of the region enclosed between two different…

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We study a Lorentzian version of the well-known Calder\'{o}n problem that is concerned with determination of lower order coefficients in a wave equation on a smooth Lorentzian manifold, given the associated Dirichlet-to-Neumann map. In the…

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For each connected and simply connected three-dimensional non-unimodular Lie group, we classify the left invariant Lorentzian metrics up to automorphism, and study the extent to which curvature can be altered by a change of metric. Thereby…

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In this article, we study an inverse problem with local data for a linear polyharmonic operator with several lower order tensorial perturbations. We consider our domain to have an inaccessible portion of the boundary where neither the input…

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Let $L_0$ be a closed densely defined symmetric semi-bounded operator with nonzero defect indexes in a separable Hilbert space ${\cal H}$. With $L_0$ we associate a metric space $\Omega_{L_0}$ that is named a {\it wave spectrum} and…

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Consider a real-analytic orientable connected complete Riemannian manifold $M$ with boundary of dimension $n\ge 2$ and let $k$ be an integer $1\le k\le n$. In the case when $M$ is compact of dimension $n\ge 3$, we show that the manifold and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-07-07 Katsiaryna Krupchyk , Matti Lassas , Gunther Uhlmann

This paper recovers Hermitian connections of semi-linear wave equations with cubic nonlinearity. The main novelty is in the geometric generality: we treat the case of an arbitrary globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifold. Our approach is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Lauri Oksanen , Ruochong Zhang

We consider the sharp interface limit $\epsilon \to 0$ of the semilinear wave equation $u_{tt} - \Delta u + \nabla W(u)/ \epsilon^2 = 0$ in $\mathbf R^{1+n}$, where $u$ takes values in $\mathbf R^k$, $k = 1,2$, and $W$ is a double-well…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-05 G. Bellettini , M. Novaga , G. Orlandi

We study inverse boundary problems for semilinear Schr\"odinger equations on smooth compact Riemannian manifolds of dimensions $\ge 2$ with smooth boundary, at a large fixed frequency. We show that certain classes of cubic nonlinearities…

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