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We consider a pair of special functions, $u_\beta$ and $v_\beta$, defined respectively as the solutions to the integral equations \begin{equation*} u(x)=1+\int^\infty_0 \frac {K(t) u(t) dt}{t+x} ~~\mbox{and}~~v(x)=1-\int^\infty_0 \frac{…

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…

Let $u_t=\nabla^2 u-q(x)u:=Lu$ in $D\times [0,\infty)$, where $D\subset R^3$ is a bounded domain with a smooth connected boundary $S$, and $q(x)\in L^2(S)$ is a real-valued function with compact support in $D$. Assume that $u(x,0)=0$, $u=0$…

This work investigates the inverse drift problem in the one-dimensional parabolic equation with the final time data. The authors construct an operator first, whose fixed points are the unknown drift, and then apply it to prove the…

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…

This paper considers the inverse problem of identifying the source term of parabolic equations from sparse boundary measurements. We used data from moving sensors to locate the unknown source term. This work first proves the uniqueness of…

For an initial-boundary value problem for a parabolic equation in the spatial variable $x=(x_1,.., x_n)$ and time $t$, we consider an inverse problem of determining a coefficient which is independent of one spatial component $x_n$ by extra…

We consider initial boundary value problems of time-fractional advection-diffusion equations with the zero Dirichlet boundary value $\partial_t^{\alpha} u(x,t) = -Au(x,t)$, where $-A = \sum}{i,j=1}^d \partial_i(a_{ij}(x)\partial_j) +…

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…

This article concerns the basic understanding of parabolic final value problems, and a large class of such problems is proved to be well posed. The clarification is obtained via explicit Hilbert spaces that characterise the possible data,…

The Dirichlet problem is considered both for degenerate and singular inhomogeneous quasilinear parabolic equations. We prove the existence of a solution $u$ such that $u_t$ belongs to $L_{\infty}$. The $L_{\infty}$ estimate of $u_t$ is…

In this work, we consider an inverse potential problem in the parabolic equation, where the unknown potential is a space-dependent function and the used measurement is the final time data. The unknown potential in this inverse problem is…

It is shown that a function $u$ satisfying $|\partial_tu+\sum_{i,j}\partial_i(a^{ij}\partial_ju)|\leq N(|u|+|\nabla u|)$, $|u(x,t)|\leq Ne^{N|x|^2}$ in $\mathbb{R}^n_+\times[0,T]$ and $u(x,0)=0$ in $\mathbb{R}^n_+$ under certain conditions…

We study the inverse problem of unique recovery of a complex-valued scalar function $V:\mathcal M \times \mathbb C\to \mathbb C$, defined over a smooth compact Riemannian manifold $(\mathcal M,g)$ with smooth boundary, given the Dirichlet…

We bound the difference between solutions $u$ and $v$ of $u_t = a\Delta u+\Div_x f+h$ and $v_t = b\Delta v+\Div_x g+k$ with initial data $\phi$ and $ \psi$, respectively, by $\Vert u(t,\cdot)-v(t,\cdot)\Vert_{L^p(E)}\le A_E(t)\Vert…

Planck formula is considered as a first moment (average value) of unknown function of electromagnetic energy distribution of black body radiation. In-verse problem for the definition of the unknown function is solved for Gibbs ensemble. The…

We consider initial-boundary value problems for the KdV equation $u_t + u_x + 6uu_x + u_{xxx} = 0$ on the half-line $x \geq 0$. For a well-posed problem, the initial data $u(x,0)$ as well as one of the three boundary values $\{u(0,t),…

This paper considers the weakly coupled parabolic system $\partial_t u-\partial^2_xu +P(x)u=0$ with the homogeneous Neumann boundary condition, where \(P(x)\) is a \(2\times2\) symmetric real-valued function matrix. Under the assumption…

We consider an inverse problem of determining a coefficient $p(x)$ of an evolution equation $\sigma\ppp_tu = a(x)\ppp_x^2u - p(x)u$ for $0<x<\ell$ and $0<t<T$, where $\sigma \in \C \setminus \{0\}$, $\ell>0$ and $T>0$ are arbitrarily given.…

We consider the homogeneous Dirichlet problem for the parabolic equation \[ u_t- \operatorname{div} \left(|\nabla u|^{p(x,t)-2} \nabla u\right)= f(x,t) + F(x,t, u, \nabla u) \] in the cylinder $Q_T:=\Omega\times (0,T)$, where $\Omega\subset…