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We study an inverse boundary value problem associated with $p$-Laplacian which is further perturbed by a linear second order term, defined on a bounded set $\Omega$ in $\R^n, n\geq 2$. We recover the coefficients at the boundary from the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-12 Nitesh Kumar , Tanmay Sarkar , Manmohan Vashisth

We consider an inverse boundary value problem for a nonlinear elastic wave equation which was studied in [de Hoop, Uhlmann, Wang. Math. Ann. (2019) doi:10.1007/s00208-018-01796-y]. We show that all the parameters appearing in the equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-15 Gunther Uhlmann , Jian Zhai

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

In this paper, we study a solvability result for the nonlinear problem $$ \mbox {div } \left ( \vert \nabla_\omega u\vert^{p-2}\nabla_\omega u \right )+v(x) u^{q-1}+\mu u^{\gamma-1}=0, \quad z\in \Omega, \quad u \Big \vert_{\partial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Farman Mamedov , Jasarat Gasimov

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

In this paper we establish uniqueness in the inverse boundary value problem for the two coefficients in the inhomogeneous porous medium equation $\epsilon\partial_tu-\nabla\cdot(\gamma\nabla u^m)=0$, with $m>1$, in dimension 3 or higher,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-14 Cătălin I. Cârstea , Tuhin Ghosh , Gen Nakamura

For a time-independent potential $q\in L^\infty$, consider the source-to-solution operator that maps a source $f$ to the solution $u=u(t,x)$ of $(\Box+q)u=f$ in Euclidean space with an obstacle, where we impose on $u$ vanishing Cauchy data…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Leonard Busch , Matti Lassas , Lauri Oksanen , Mikko Salo

We study an inverse boundary value problem for the nonlinear wave equation in $2 + 1$ dimensions. The objective is to recover an unknown potential $q(x, t)$ from the associated Dirichlet-to-Neumann map using real-valued waves. We propose a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Markus Harju , Suvi Anttila , Teemu Tyni

In this work we study an inverse problem for the minimal surface equation on a Riemannian manifold $(\mathbb{R}^{n},g)$ where the metric is of the form $g(x)=c(x)(\hat{g}\oplus e)$. Here $\hat{g}$ is a simple Riemannian metric on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-20 Janne Nurminen

We study various partial data inverse boundary value problems for the semilinear elliptic equation $\Delta u+ a(x,u)=0$ in a domain in $\mathbb R^n$ by using the higher order linearization technique introduced in [LLS 19, FO19]. We show…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-09 Matti Lassas , Tony Liimatainen , Yi-Hsuan Lin , Mikko Salo

We consider the inverse problem to determine a smooth compact Riemannian manifold with boundary $(M, g)$ from a restriction $\Lambda_{\Src, \Rec}$ of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann operator for the wave equation on the manifold. Here $\Src$ and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-01-14 Matti Lassas , Lauri Oksanen

Given $(M,g)$, a compact connected Riemannian manifold of dimension $d \geq 2$, with boundary $\partial M$, we consider an initial boundary value problem for a fractional diffusion equation on $(0,T) \times M$, $T>0$, with time-fractional…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-06 Yavar Kian , Lauri Oksanen , Eric Soccorsi , Masahiro Yamamoto

We consider the inverse problem of determining a general nonlinear term appearing in a semilinear hyperbolic equation on a Riemannian manifold with boundary $(M,g)$ of dimension $n=2,3$. We prove results of unique recovery of the nonlinear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-24 Yavar Kian

In this paper, first we study carefully the positive solutions to $\Delta u+\lambda_{1}u\ln u +\lambda_{2}u^{b+1}=0$ defined on a complete noncompact Riemannian manifold $(M, g)$ with $Ric(g)\geq -Kg$, which can be regarded as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-02 Pingliang Huang , Youde Wang

In this article, we study the following problem $$-{\rm div} (\omega(x)|\nabla u|^{N-2} \nabla u) = \lambda\ f(x,u) \quad\mbox{ in }\quad B, \quad u=0 \quad\mbox{ on } \quad\partial B,$$ where $B$ is the unit ball of $\mathbb{R^{N}}$,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-25 Brahim Dridi , Rached Jaidane

We consider inverse boundary value problems for the Jordan-Moore-Gibson-Thompson (JMGT) equation in nonlinear acoustics with quadratic nonlinearities of Kuznetsov-type and Westervelt-type. We show that the associated boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Dong Qiu , Xiang Xu , Yeqiong Ye , Ting Zhou

We consider an inverse optimization spectral problem for the Sturm-Liouville operator $$\mathcal{L}[q] u:=-u''+q(x)u$$ subject to the separated boundary conditions. In the main result, we prove that this problem is related to the existence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-05 Y. Sh. Ilyasov , N. F. Valeev

We study the inverse problem of recovering a semilinear diffusion term $a(t,\lambda)$ as well as a quasilinear convection term $\mathcal B(t,x,\lambda,\xi)$ in a nonlinear parabolic equation $$\partial_tu-\textrm{div}(a(t,u) \nabla…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-10 Ali Feizmohammadi , Yavar Kian , Gunther Uhlmann

We analyze the inverse problem, originally formulated by Dix in geophysics, of reconstructing the wave speed inside a domain from boundary measurements associated with the single scattering of seismic waves. We consider a domain $\tilde M$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-12-04 Maarten V. de Hoop , Sean F. Holman , Einar Iversen , Matti Lassas , Bjørn Ursin

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