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We study inverse source problems associated to semilinear elliptic equations of the form \[ \Delta u(x)+a(x,u)=F(x), \] on a bounded domain $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^n$, $n\geq 2$. We show that it is possible to use nonlinearity to break…
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In this short note, we investigate an inverse source problem associated with a nonlocal elliptic equation $\left( -\nabla \cdot \sigma \nabla \right)^s u =F$ that is given in a bounded open set $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^n$, for $n\geq 3$…
We consider an inverse boundary value problem for the doubly nonlinear parabolic equation \[ \epsilon(x)\partial_t u^m-\nabla\cdot\bigl(\gamma(x)|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u\bigr)=0 \quad\text{in }(0,T)\times\Omega, \] where…
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]…
We establish a precise connection between two elliptic quasilinear problems with Dirichlet data in a bounded domain of $\mathbb{R}^{N}.$ The first one, of the form \[ -\Delta_{p}u=\beta(u)| \nabla u| ^{p}+\lambda f(x)+\alpha, \] involves a…
We are interested in the following Dirichlet problem $$ \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} -\Delta u + \lambda u - \mu \frac{u}{|x|^2} - \nu \frac{u}{\mathrm{dist}\,(x,\mathbb{R}^N \setminus \Omega)^2} = f(x,u) & \quad \mbox{in } \Omega \\ u = 0 &…
This article studies the inverse problem of recovering a nonlinearity in an elliptic equation $\Delta u + a(x,u) = 0$ from boundary measurements of solutions. Previous results based on first order linearization achieve this under a sign…
In this paper I consider the inverse boundary value problem for a quasilinear, anisotropic, elliptic equation of the form $\nabla\cdot(\gamma\nabla u+|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u)=0$, where $\gamma$ is a smooth, matrix valued, function with a…
We study the inverse problem of recovering a semilinear diffusion term $a(t,\lambda)$ as well as a quasilinear convection term $\mathcal B(t,x,\lambda,\xi)$ in a nonlinear parabolic equation $$\partial_tu-\textrm{div}(a(t,u) \nabla…
We study the inverse source problem for the semilinear wave equation \[ (\Box_g + q_1)u + q_2 u^2 = F, \] on a globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifold. We demonstrate that the coefficients $q_1$ and $q_2$, as well as the source term $F$,…
In this paper, we investigate the existence of solutions for a class of quasilinear elliptic system \begin{eqnarray*} \begin{cases}{ccc} -\mbox{div}(\phi_1(|\nabla u|)\nabla u)+V_1(x)\phi_1(|u|)u=\lambda F_u(x, u,v), \ \ x\in \mathbb R^N,…
Thanks to a change of unknown we compare two elliptic quasilinear problems with Dirichlet data in a bounded domain of $\mathbb{R}^{N}.$ The first one, of the form $-\Delta_{p}u=\beta(u)| \nabla u| ^{p}+\lambda f(x),$ where $\beta$ is…
We discuss the Dirichlet problem of the quasi-linear elliptic system \begin{eqnarray*} -e^{-f(U)}div(e^{f(U)}\bigtriangledown U)+&{1/2}f'(U)|\bigtriangledown U|^2&=0, {in $\Omega$}, & U|_{\partial\Omega}&=\phi. \end{eqnarray*} Here $\Omega$…
The aim of this paper is to prove the existence of multiple solutions for a family of nonlinear elliptic systems in divergence form coupled with a pointwise gradient constraint: \begin{align*} \left\{ \begin{array}{ll}…
This paper addresses the inverse problem of simultaneously recovering multiple unknown parameters for semilinear wave equations from boundary measurements. We consider an initial-boundary value problem for a wave equation with a general…
In this work we analyze the existence of solutions to the nonlinear elliptic system: \begin{equation*} \left\{ \begin{array}{rcll} -\Delta u & = & v^q+\a g & \text{in }\Omega , \\ -\Delta v& = &|\nabla u|^{p}+\l f &\text{in }\Omega , \\…
The existence of positive solutions is considered for the Dirichlet problem \[ \left\{ \begin{array} [c]{rcll}% -\Delta_{p}u & = & \lambda\omega_{1}(x)\left\vert u\right\vert ^{q-2}% u+\beta\omega_{2}(x)\left\vert u\right\vert…
This paper is concerned with the forward and inverse problems for the fractional semilinear elliptic equation $(-\Delta)^s u +a(x,u)=0$ for $0<s<1$. For the forward problem, we proved the problem is well-posed and has a unique solution for…
In this paper we deal with positive solutions for singular quasilinear problems whose model is $$ \begin{cases} -\Delta u + \frac{|\nabla u|^2}{(1-u)^\gamma}=g & \mbox{in $\Omega$,}\newline \hfill u=0 \hfill & \mbox{on $\partial\Omega$,}…