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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

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

This article surveys recent results aiming at obtaining refined mapping estimates for the X-ray transform on a Riemannian manifold with boundary, which leverage the condition that the boundary be strictly geodesically convex. These…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-04 François Monard

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Tony Liimatainen , Yi-Hsuan Lin

In this paper, we study the inverse boundary value problem for the wave equation with a view towards an explicit reconstruction procedure. We consider both the anisotropic problem where the unknown is a general Riemannian metric smoothly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-10 Maarten de Hoop , Paul Kepley , Lauri Oksanen

Consider the geometric inverse problem: There is a set of delta-sources in spacetime that emit waves travelling at unit speed. If we know all the arrival times at the boundary cylinder of the spacetime, can we reconstruct the space, a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-09 Maarten V. de Hoop , Joonas Ilmavirta , Matti Lassas , Teemu Saksala

We deal with two dynamical systems associated with a Riemannian manifold with boundary. The first one is a system governed by the scalar wave equation, the second is governed by the Maxwell equations. Both of the systems are controlled from…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 M. I. Belishev , M. N. Demchenko

This paper concerns an inverse boundary value problem of recovering a zeroth order time-dependent term of a semi-linear wave equation on a globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifold. We show that an unknown potential $q$ in the non-linear wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Matti Lassas , Tony Liimatainen , Leyter Potenciano-Machado , Teemu Tyni

In this paper, we study an inverse boundary value problem for the Jordan--Moore--Gibson--Thompson equation on a simple Riemannian manifold. We consider an all boundary measurement map that maps Dirichlet boundary data and initial data to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Dong Qiu , Xiang Xu , Yeqiong Ye , Ting Zhou

We show that on a two-dimensional compact nontrapping Riemannian manifold with strictly convex boundary, a piecewise constant function can be recovered from its integrals over geodesics. We adapt the injectivity proof which uses variations…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-20 Vadim Lebovici

The Steklov spectrum of a smooth compact Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ with boundary is the set of eigenvalues counted with multiplicities of its Dirichlet-to-Neumann map. (DN map) This article is devoted to the Steklov spectral inverse…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Benjamin Florentin

In this article we are concerned with an inverse boundary value problem for a non-linear wave equation of divergence form with space dimension $n\geq 3$. In particular the so called the interior determination problem. This non-linear wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-15 Gen Nakamura , Manmohan Vashisth

In this paper, we consider the inverse problem of determining an unknown function defined in three space dimensions from its geodesic X-ray transform. The standard X-ray transform is defined on the Euclidean metric and is given by the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-27 Tak Shing Au Yeung , Eric T. Chung , Gunther Uhlmann

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 consider a restricted Dirichlet-to-Neumann map associated to a wave type operator on a Riemannian manifold with boundary. The restriction corresponds to the case where the Dirichlet traces are supported on one subset of the boundary and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-15 Yavar Kian , Yaroslav Kurylev , Matti Lassas , Lauri Oksanen

A Gaussian beam method is presented for the analysis of the energy of the high frequency solution to the mixed problem of the scalar wave equation in an open and convex subset, with initial conditions compactly supported in this set, and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-02-15 Jean-Luc Akian , Radjesvarane Alexandre , Salma Bougacha

Inverse problems are ubiquitous in nature, arising in almost all areas of science and engineering ranging from geophysics and climate science to astrophysics and biomechanics. One of the central challenges in solving inverse problems is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-09-21 Dhruv V Patel , Deep Ray , Assad A Oberai

We address the inverse problem of recovering the stiffness tensor and density of mass from the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map. We study the invariance of the Euclidean and Riemannian elastic wave equation under coordinate transformations.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-23 Joonas Ilmavirta , Hjørdis Schlüter

We consider the problem of reconstructing of the boundary of an unknown inclusion together with its conductivity from the localized Dirichlet-to-Neumann map. We give an exact reconstruction procedure and apply the method to an inverse…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-09 Masaru Ikehata

We consider the Dirichlet-to-Neumann operator and the direct and inverse Calder\'on's mappings appearing in the Inverse Problem of recovering a smooth bounded and positive isotropic conductivity of a material filling a smooth bounded domain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-16 Javier Castro , Claudio Muñoz , Nicolás Valenzuela