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In this paper, we first define the notion of viscosity solution for the following system of partial differential equations involving a subdifferential operator:\[\{[c]{l}\dfrac{\partial u}{\partial…

We prove that a large class of parabolic final value problems is well posed.This results via explicit Hilbert spaces that characterise the data yielding existence, uniqueness and stability of solutions. This data space is the graph normed…

We deal with a planar differential system of the form \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} \, u' = h(t,v), \\ \, v' = - \lambda a(t) g(u), \end{cases} \end{equation*} where $h$ is $T$-periodic in the first variable and strictly increasing in the…

For solution $u(x,t)$ to degenearte parabolic equations in a bounded domain $\Omega$ with homogenous boundary condition, we consider backward problems in time: determine $u(\cdot,t_0)$ in $\Omega$ by $u(\cdot,T)$, where $t$ is the time…

We study an inverse drift problem for a two-dimensional parabolic equation on the unit square with mixed boundary conditions, where the drift coefficient is recovered from terminal observation data $g=u(\cdot,T)$. A monotone operator is…

We consider inverse problems for non-linear hyperbolic and elliptic equations and give an introduction to the method based on the multiple linearization, or on the construction of artificial sources, to solve these problems. The method is…

We study a functional equation whose unknown maps a Euclidean space into the space of probability distributions on [0,1]. We prove existence and uniqueness of its solution under suitable regularity and boundary conditions, we show that it…

Given a conformally transversally anisotropic manifold $(M,g)$, we consider the semilinear elliptic equation $$(-\Delta_{g}+V)u+qu^2=0\quad \text{on $M$}.$$ We show that an a priori unknown smooth function $q$ can be uniquely determined…

We study the uniqueness of singular radial (forward and backward) self-similar positive solutions of the equation $u_t-\Delta u = u^p, \quad x\in{\mathbb R}^n,\ t>0,$ where $p\geq(n+2)/(n-2)_+$.

Let $(M^{n},g)$ be a complete Riemannian manifold. In this paper, we establish a space-time gradient estimates for positive solutions of nonlinear parabolic equations $$\partial_{t}u(x,t)=\Delta u(x,t)+a u(x,t)(\log u(x,t))^b +…

We consider the inverse problem of identification of degenerate diffusion coefficient of the form $x^\alpha a(x)$ in a one dimensional parabolic equation by some extra data. We first prove by energy methods the uniqueness and Lipschitz…

We prove the local H\"older regularity of weak solutions to the mixed local nonlocal parabolic equation of the form \begin{equation*} u_t-\Delta u+\text{P.V.}\int_{\mathbb{R}^{n}} {\frac{u(x,t)-u(y,t)}{{\left|x-y\right|}^{n+2s}}}dy=0,…

Inverse problem for multi-term fractional parabolic equation in two dimensional space, involving m + 1 Caputo fractional derivatives in time, is investigated. Presence of nonlocal boundary conditions leads to a non-self-adjoint spectral…

We establish the unique solvability of a coupling problem for entire functions which arises in inverse spectral theory for singular second order ordinary differential equations/two-dimensional first order systems and is also of relevance…

The so-called polynomial equations play an important role both in algebra and in the theory of functional equations. If the unknown functions in the equation are additive, relatively many results are known. However, even in this case, there…

We consider initial boundary value problems with the homogeneous Neumann boundary condition. Given an initial value, we establish the uniqueness in determining a spatially varying coefficient of zeroth-order term by a single measurement of…

A parabolic partial differential equation $u'_t(t,x)=Lu(t,x)$ is considered, where $L$ is a linear second-order differential operator with time-independent coefficients, which may depend on $x$. We assume that the spatial coordinate $x$…

We consider the following inverse problem for an ordinary differential equation (ODE): given a set of data points $P=\{(t_i,x_i),\; i=1,\dots,N\}$, find an ODE $x^\prime(t) = v (x)$ that admits a solution $x(t)$ such that $x_i \approx…

We study the uniqueness of non-negative solutions of the equation \begin{align*} \partial_t\left(|u|^{p-2}u\right)\,=\, \operatorname{div}(|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u). \end{align*} Basic estimates are derived with the Galerkin Method.

A uniqueness result in the inverse problem for an inhomogeneous hyperbolic system on a real vector bundle over a smooth compact manifold, based on energy measurements for improperly known sources, is established.