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The paper studies inverse problems of determining unknown coefficients in various semi-linear and quasi-linear wave equations. We introduce a method to solve inverse problems for non-linear equations using interaction of three waves, that…

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In this paper, we investigate a class of semilinear wave equations in non-cylindrical time-dependent domains, subject to exterior homogeneous Dirichlet conditions. Under mild regularity and monotonicity assumptions on the evolving spatial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Mauro Bonafini , Van Phu Cuong Le , Riccardo Molinarolo

We study the inverse boundary value problem for the Helmholtz equation using the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map at selected frequencies as the data. A conditional Lipschitz stability estimate for the inverse problem holds in the case of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-05 Elena Beretta , Maarten V. de Hoop , Florian Faucher , Otmar Scherzer

This paper studies an inverse boundary value problem for a semilinear Helmholtz equation with Neumann boundary conditions in a bounded domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ ($n\ge2$). The objective is to recover the unknown linear and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Long-Ling Du , Zejun Sun , Li-Li Wang , Guang-Hui Zheng

We consider inverse problems in space-time $(M, g)$, a $4$-dimensional Lorentzian manifold. For semilinear wave equations $\square_g u + H(x, u) = f$, where $\square_g$ denotes the usual Laplace-Beltrami operator, we prove that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-21 Matti Lassas , Gunther Uhlmann , Yiran Wang

We study the inverse problem of recovery a non-linearity $f(x,u)$, which is compactly supported in $x$, in the semilinear wave equation $u_{tt}-\Delta u+ f(x,u)=0$. We probe the medium with either complex or real-valued harmonic waves of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-20 Antônio Sá Barreto , Plamen Stefanov

We prove the existence of strong and weak solutions to the semilinear wave equation with coefficients depending both on time and space variables, with continuous nonlinearity satisfying the sign condition. The uniqueness is proven under…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Nenad Antonić , Matko Grbac

In this paper we study the long time behavior for a semilinear wave equation with space-dependent and nonlinear damping term. After rewriting the equation as a first order system, we define a class of approximate solutions that employ…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-24 Debora Amadori , Fatima Al-Zahrà Aqel , Edda Dal Santo

We prove the well-posedness results, i.e. existence, uniqueness, and stability, of the solutions to a class of nonlocal fully nonlinear parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs), where there is an external time parameter $t$ on top of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-11 Qian Lei , Chi Seng Pun

In this paper we consider the Cauchy problem for the nonlinear wave equation (NLW) with quadratic derivative nonlinearities in two space dimensions. Following Gr\"{u}nrock's result in 3D, we take the data in the Fourier-Lebesgue spaces…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-22 Viktor Grigoryan , Allison Tanguay

In this paper, we consider an inverse problem for a nonlinear wave equation with a damping term and a general nonlinear term. This problem arises in nonlinear acoustic imaging and has applications in medical imaging and other fields. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-01 Yang Zhang

We first formulate an inverse problem for a linear fractional Lam\'e system. We determine the Lam\'e parameters from exterior partial measurements of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map. We further study an inverse obstacle problem as well as an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-09 Li Li

We consider the stability in the inverse problem consisting in the determination of an electric potential $q$, appearing in a Dirichlet initial-boundary value problem for the wave equation $\partial_t^2u-\Delta u+q(x)u=0$ in an unbounded…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-01 Yavar Kian

We study two inverse problems on a globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifold $(M,g)$. The problems are: 1. Passive observations in spacetime: Consider observations in a neighborhood $V\subset M$ of a time-like geodesic $\mu$. Under natural…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-09-22 Yaroslav Kurylev , Matti Lassas , Gunther Uhlmann

We construct counterexamples to inverse problems for the wave operator on domains in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$, $n \ge 2$, and on Lorentzian manifolds. We show that non-isometric Lorentzian metrics can lead to same partial data measurements, which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-27 Tony Liimatainen , Lauri Oksanen

In this paper, we consider the problem of nonlinear (in particular, saturated) stabilization of the high-dimensional wave equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions. The wave dynamics are subject to a dissipative nonlinear velocity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-30 Nicolas Vanspranghe , Francesco Ferrante , Christophe Prieur

We study the inverse boundary value problem for the Helmholtz equation using the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map at selected frequency as the data. We develop an explicit reconstruction of the wavespeed using a multi-level nonlinear projected…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-06-11 Elena Beretta , Maarten V. de Hoop , Lingyun Qiu , Otmar Scherzer

We consider a time-independent variable coefficients fractional porous medium equation and formulate an associated inverse problem. We determine both the conductivity and the absorption coefficient from exterior partial measurements of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-07 Li Li

This paper is concerned with the inverse scattering problem involving the time-domain elastic wave equations in a bounded $d$-dimensional domain. First, an explicit reconstruction formula for the density is established by means of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-20 Bochao Chen , Yixian Gao , Shuguan Ji , Yang Liu

We prove local well-posedness results for the semi-linear wave equation for data in $H^\gamma$, $0 < \gamma < \frac{n-3}{2(n-1)}$, extending the previously known results for this problem. The improvement comes from an introduction of a…

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