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This paper addresses the inverse source problem for a mixed-type fractional wave-diffusion-wave equation posed in a cylindrical domain. The governing equation involves a time-dependent variable-order fractional derivative, which enables the…

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We introduce a new type of lens that focuses a plane wave into a spherical one, where light comes from all directions. Our method also suggests the design of ideal optical tweezers or, in the reverse direction, photo-detection of nearly all…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-01 Shay Rabani , Kirill Shvalb , Boris Malomed , Tal Carmon

We consider an inverse problem for an inhomogeneous wave equation with discrete-in-time sources, modeling a seismic rupture. We assume that the sources occur along a path with subsonic velocity, and that data are collected over time on some…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-05 Maarten V. de Hoop , Lauri Oksanen , Justin Tittelfitz

We propose and investigate efficient numerical methods for inverse problems related to Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Our goal is to extend the recent convergence results for the Landweber-Kaczmarz method obtained in [Haltmeier, Leitao,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-22 A. Leitao , J. Zubelli

In this paper, we study the problem of shock reflection by a wedge, with the potential flow equation, which is a simplification of the Euler System. In the work of M. Feldman and G. Chen, the existence theory of shock reflection problems…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-31 Jingchen Hu

We consider a fixed angle inverse scattering problem in the presence of a known Riemannian metric. First, assuming a no caustics condition, we study the direct problem by utilizing the progressing wave expansion. Under a symmetry assumption…

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We give a criterion for a finitely generated odd-angled Coxeter group to have a proper finite index subgroup generated by reflections. The answer is given in terms of the least prime divisors of the exponents of the Coxeter relations.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-25 Anna Felikson , Jessica Fintzen , Pavel Tumarkin

We study an inverse source scattering problem for the Schr\"odinger equation with a quadratic nonlinearity. In general, uniqueness of inverse source problems can not be guaranteed at a fixed energy. Therefore, additional information is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-22 Lei Zhang , Yue Zhao

For a congruence of straight lines defined by a hypersurface in $R^{n+1}, n \geq 1,$ and a field of reflected directions created by a point source we define the notion of intensity in a tangent direction and introduce elementary symmetric…

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We prove existence of radially symmetric solutions and validity of Euler-Lagrange necessary conditions for a class of variational problems such that neither direct methods nor indirect methods of Calculus of Variations apply. We obtain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-25 Graziano Crasta , Annalisa Malusa

A Coefficient Inverse Problem for the radiative transport equation is considered. The globally convergent numerical method, the so-called convexification, is developed. For the first time, the viscosity solution is considered for a boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-17 Michael V. Klibanov , Jingzhi Li , Zhipeng Yang

Polarization tensor corresponding to near zero volume inhomogeneities was introduced in the pioneering work by Capdeboscq-Vogelius \cite{CV1,CV2}. A beautiful application of the polarization tensor to an inverse problem involving…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-29 Tuhin Ghosh , Venkateswaran P. Krishnan , Muthusamy Vanninathan

The problem of imaging of a moving target is formulated as a Coefficient Inverse Problem for a hyperbolic equation with its coefficient depending on all three spatial variables and time. As the initial condition, the point source running…

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The problem of imaging extended targets (sources or scatterers) is formulated in the framework of compressed sensing with emphasis on subwavelength resolution. The proposed formulation of the problems of inverse source/scattering is…

Optics · Physics 2009-09-15 Albert C. Fannjiang

The aim of the present work is to show that recent results of the authors on the approximation of distributions of sums of independent summands by the infinitely divisible laws on convex polyhedra can be shown via an alternative class of…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-08-04 Friedrich Götze , Andrei Yu. Zaitsev

We develop reliable a posteriori error estimators for fully discrete Runge-Kutta discontinuous Galerkin approximations of nonlinear convection-diffusion systems endowed with a convex entropy in multiple spatial dimensions on the flat torus…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Jan Giesselmann , Kiwoong Kwon , Sebastian Krumscheid

In this work the authors consider an inverse source problem in the following stochastic fractional diffusion equation $$\partial_t^\alpha u(x,t)+\mathcal{A} u(x,t)=f(x)h(t)+g(x) \dot{\mathbb{W}}(t).$$ The interested inverse problem is to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Pingping Niu , Tapio Helin , Zhidong Zhang

We survey results on the problem of covering the space ${\mathbb R}^n$, or a convex body in it, by translates of a convex body. Our main goal is to present a diverse set of methods. A theorem of Rogers is a central result, according to…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-16 Márton Naszódi

This work considers a nonlinear inverse source problem in a coupled diffusion equation from the terminal observation. Theoretically, under some conditions on problem data, we build the uniqueness theorem for this inverse problem and show…

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