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We consider the semilinear wave equation $\Box_g u+a u^4=0$, $a\neq 0$, on a Lorentzian manifold $(M,g)$ with timelike boundary. We show that from the knowledge of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map one can recover the metric $g$ and the…

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In this paper, we study the inverse problem for determining an unknown time-dependent source coefficient in a semilinear pseudo-parabolic equation with variable coefficients and Neumann boundary condition. This unknown source term is…

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We consider an inverse problem for a hyperbolic partial differential equation on a compact Riemannian manifold. Assuming that $\Gamma_1$ and $\Gamma_2$ are two disjoint open subsets of the boundary of the manifold we define the restricted…

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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

We consider the inverse problem of determining a general nonlinear term appearing in a semilinear hyperbolic equation on a Riemannian manifold with boundary $(M,g)$ of dimension $n=2,3$. We prove results of unique recovery of the nonlinear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-24 Yavar Kian

We study inverse boundary problems for semilinear Schr\"odinger equations on smooth compact Riemannian manifolds of dimensions $\ge 2$ with smooth boundary, at a large fixed frequency. We show that certain classes of cubic nonlinearities…

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We study an inverse source problem for a semilinear parabolic equation in a bounded domain, where the nonlinearity depends on the unknown function and its gradient through a quadratic reaction term and a Burgers-type convection term. From…

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In this work, we investigate inverse problems of recovering the time-dependent coefficient in the nonlinear transport equation in both cases: two-dimensional Riemannian manifolds and Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^n$, $n\geq 2$. Specifically,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-02 Ru-Yu Lai , Hanming Zhou

We propose in this paper a new numerical method to solve an inverse source problem for general hyperbolic equations. This is the problem of reconstructing sources from the lateral Cauchy data of the wave field on the boundary of a domain.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Loc Hoang Nguyen

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

Gaussian beams are asymptotically valid high frequency solutions to hyperbolic partial differential equations, concentrated on a single curve through the physical domain. They can also be extended to some dispersive wave equations, such as…

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We investigate inverse boundary problems associated with a time-dependent semilinear hyperbolic equation, where both nonlinearity and sources (including initial displacement and initial velocity) are unknown. We establish in several generic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-10 Yi-Hsuan Lin , Hongyu Liu , Xu Liu

The present manuscript consists of inverse problems for a coupled system of wave equations with potential in $\mathbb{R}^3$. By establishing the fundamental solution to the aforementioned operator, we study the uniqueness aspects of the…

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We propose and study several inverse problems associated with the nonlinear progressive waves that arise in infrasonic inversions. The nonlinear progressive equation (NPE) is of a quasilinear form $\partial_t^2 u=\Delta f(x, u)$ with $f(x,…

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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…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2016-03-25 Ajey K. Tiwari , S. N. Pandey , V. K. Chandrasekar , M. Senthilvelan , M. Lakshmanan

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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The present paper generalizes preceding papers of the author and opens a cycle of works concerning the general posing and solution in analytic form of the quantum-mechanical inverse scattering problem (for a given partial channel) in a…

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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]…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Tony Liimatainen , Janne Nurminen

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