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Given $(M,g)$, a compact connected Riemannian manifold of dimension $d \geq 2$, with boundary $\partial M$, we study the inverse boundary value problem of determining a time-dependent potential $q$, appearing in the wave equation…

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We extend the recent study of inverse problems for minimal surfaces by considering the inverse source problem for the prescribed mean curvature equation \begin{equation*} \nabla \cdot \left[ \frac{\nabla u}{(1 + |\nabla u|^2)^{1/2}} \right]…

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We consider a smooth Riemannian metric tensor $g$ on $\R^n$ and study the stochastic wave equation for the Laplace-Beltrami operator $\p_t^2 u - \Delta_g u = F$. Here, $F=F(t,x,\omega)$ is a random source that has white noise distribution…

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We consider the following inverse problem: Suppose a $(1+1)$-dimensional wave equation on $\mathbb{R}_+$ with zero initial conditions is excited with a Neumann boundary data modelled as a white noise process. Given also the Dirichlet data…

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The problem of interest in this article is to study the (nonlocal) inverse problem of recovering a potential based on the boundary measurement associated with the fractional Schr\"{o}dinger equation. Let $0<a<1$, and $u$ solves…

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We consider an inverse boundary value problem for the equation $\nabla\cdot(\sigma-i\omega\epsilon)\nabla u=0$ in a given bounded domain $\Omega$ at a fixed $\omega>0$. $\sigma$ and $\epsilon$ denote the conductivity and permittivity of the…

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In this paper, we prove the existence of a weak solution for the Dirichlet boundary value problem related to the $p(x)-$Laplacian $$ -\mbox{div}(|\nabla u|^{p(x)-2}\nabla u)+u\in -[\underline{g}(x,u),\overline{g}(x,u)], $$ by using the…

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In this paper, we discuss the inverse problem for a mixed Li\'enard type nonlinear oscillator equation $\ddot{x}+f(x)\dot{x}^2+g(x)\dot{x}+h(x)=0$, where $f(x),\,g(x)$ and $h(x)$ are arbitrary functions of $x$. Very recently, we have…

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In this paper, we investigate positive solutions to a class of Laplace equations with a gradient term on a complete, connected, and noncompact Riemannian manifold \((M^n,g)\) with nonnegative Ricci curvature, namely \[-\Delta u =…

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In this article, we investigate an inverse problem for a semi-linear wave equation posed on bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$, with $n \geq 2$. Our primary objective is to reconstruct the damping coefficient, the linear and nonlinear…

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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…

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We consider Calder\'{o}n's inverse boundary value problems for a class of nonlinear Helmholtz Schr\"{o}dinger equations and Maxwell's equations in a bounded domain in $\R^n$. The main method is the higher-order linearization of the…

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We study the questions of uniqueness and non-uniqueness for a pair of closely related inverse problems for the Bakry-\'Emery Laplacian $-\Delta_{\mathcal E}$ on a smooth compact and oriented Riemannian manifold with boundary…

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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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We extend the study of inverse boundary value problems to the setting of fully nonlinear PDEs by considering an inverse source problem for the Monge-Amp\`ere equation \[ \det D^2 u = F. \] We prove that, on a convex Euclidean domain in the…

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Given a fixed $\alpha \in (0,1)$, we study the inverse problem of recovering the isometry class of a smooth closed and connected Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$, given the knowledge of a source-to-solution map for the fractional Laplace…

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We consider an inverse problem for a non-linear hyperbolic equation. We show that conformal structure of a Lorentzian manifold can be determined by the source-to-solution map evaluated along a single timelike curve. We use the microlocal…

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In this paper we discuss the solvability of the Neumann and Regularity boundary value problem of elliptic Schr\"odinger-type equation $-\DIV(A(x)\nabla u(x,t))+V(x)u(x,t)=0$ with bounded measurable uniformly elliptic coefficinets $A(x)$…

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