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We consider the inverse source problem in the parabolic equation, where the unknown source possesses the semi-discrete formulation. Theoretically, we prove that the flux data from any nonempty open subset of the boundary can uniquely…

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Dealing with the inverse source problem for the scalar wave equation, we have shown recently that we can reconstruct the space-time dependent source function from the measurement of the wave, collected at a single point $x$ for a large…

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We consider the inverse source problems with multi-frequency sparse near field measurements. In contrast to the existing near field operator based on the integral over the space variable, a multi-frequency near field operator is introduced…

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