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Motivated by non-destructive testing of optical fiber, we consider the problem of determining the index of refraction of a two-dimensional medium from magnitude of the total field resulting from known incident plane waves at a fixed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-01 Yat Tin Chow , Fadil Santosa , Gunther Uhlmann

Banach's fixed point theorem for contraction maps has been widely used to analyze the convergence of iterative methods in non-convex problems. It is a common experience, however, that iterative maps fail to be globally contracting under the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-02-15 Constantinos Daskalakis , Christos Tzamos , Manolis Zampetakis

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Rahul Bhardwaj , Manmohan Vashisth

The double-exponential Sinc-collocation method is known as a super-accurate method for solving initial value problems of ordinary differential equations, for which the error decreases almost exponentially as a function of the number of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Yusaku Yamamoto , Ken'ichiro Tanaka

This paper is concerned with the inverse diffraction problems by a periodic curve with Dirichlet boundary condition in two dimensions. It is proved that the periodic curve can be uniquely determined by the near-field measurement data…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Xiaoxu Xu , Guanghui Hu , Bo Zhang , Haiwen Zhang

The main features of the statistical approach to inverse problems are described on the example of a linear model with additive noise. The approach does not use any Bayesian hypothesis regarding an unknown object; instead, the standard…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-05-05 V. Yu. Terebizh

A Carleman Weight Function (CWF) is used to construct a new cost functional for a Coefficient Inverse Problems for a hyperbolic PDE. Given a bounded set of an arbitrary size in a certain Sobolev space, one can choose the parameter of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-12-11 Larisa Beilina , Michael V. Klibanov

Motivated by the need to develop a general framework for performing statistical inference for discretely observed random rough differential equations, our aim is to construct a geometric $p$-rough path ${\bf X}$ whose response $Y$, when…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Thomas Morrish , Theodore Papamarkou , Anastasia Papavasiliou , Yang Zhao

Inverse problems are inherently ill-posed, suffering from non-uniqueness and instability. Classical regularization methods provide mathematically well-founded solutions, ensuring stability and convergence, but often at the cost of reduced…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Markus Haltmeier , Gyeongha Hwang

We study an inverse problem for the fractional wave equation with a potential by the measurement taking on arbitrary subsets of the exterior in the space-time domain. We are interested in the issues of uniqueness and stability estimate in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-06 Pu-Zhao Kow , Yi-Hsuan Lin , Jenn-Nan Wang

In this paper we consider the classic problems of scattering of waves from perfectly conducting cylinders with piecewise smooth boundaries. The scattering problems are formulated as integral equations and solved using a Nystr\"om scheme…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Johan Helsing , Anders Karlsson

This paper addresses the question whether there are numerical schemes for constant-coefficient advection problems that can yield convergent solutions for an infinite time horizon. The motivation is that such methods may serve as building…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-30 Abhijit Biswas , Benjamin Seibold

The inverse of the star-discrepancy problem asks for point sets $P_{N,s}$ of size $N$ in the $s$-dimensional unit cube $[0,1]^s$ whose star-discrepancy $D^\ast(P_{N,s})$ satisfies $$D^\ast(P_{N,s}) \le C \sqrt{s/N},$$ where $C> 0$ is a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-17 Josef Dick , Friedrich Pillichshammer

In this work, we are concerned with inverse problems involving poly-fractional operators, where the poly-fractional operator is of the form \[P( (-\Delta_g)^s)u := \sum_{i=1}^M \alpha_i(-\Delta_{g_i})^{s_i}u\] for $s=(s_1,\dots,s_M)$,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Ching-Lung Lin , Hongyu Liu , Catharine W. K. Lo

The discrete Schr\"odinger equation with the Dirichlet boundary condition is considered on a half-line lattice when the potential is real valued and compactly supported. The inverse problem of recovery of the potential from the so-called…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2018-05-22 Tuncay Aktosun , Vassilis G. Papanicolaou

We prove the uniqueness for an inverse problem of determining a matrix coefficient $P(x)$ of a system of evolution equations $\sigma \ppp_t u = \ppp_x^2 u(t,x) - P(x) u(t,x)$ for $0<x<\ell$ and $0<t<T$, where $\ell>0$ and $T>0$ are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-18 Oleg Imanuvilov , Masahiro Yamamoto

We propose a new approach to constructing globally strictly convex objective functional in a 1-D inverse medium scattering problem using multi-frequency backscattering data. The global convexity of the proposed objective functional is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Thanh T. Nguyen , Michael V. Klibanov

We consider two formally determined inverse problems for the wave equation in more than one space dimension. Motivated by the fixed angle inverse scattering problem, we show that a compactly supported potential is uniquely determined by the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-19 Rakesh , Mikko Salo

The inverse problem of special geometry (Seiberg-Witten geometry of 4d N=2 SCFT) asks for a recursive construction of all such geometries in rank $r$ by assembling together known lower-rank ``strata''. This leads to a program to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-06 Sergio Cecotti

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Michael V. Klibanov , Jingzhi Li , Vladimir G. Romanov , Zhipeng Yang