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Carleman estimate for linear viscoelasticity equations and an inverse source problem

Analysis of PDEs 2017-11-28 v1

Abstract

We consider the linear system of viscoelasticity with the homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition. First we prove a Carleman estimate with boundary values of solutions of viscoelasticity system. Since a solution uu under consideration is not assumed to have compact support, in the decoupling of the Lam\'e operator by introducing div uu and rot uu, we have no boundary condition for them, so that we have to carry out arguments by a pseudodifferential operator. Second we apply the Carleman estimate to an inverse source problem of determining a spatially varying factor of the external source in the linear viscoelastitiy by extra Neumann data on the lateral subboundary over a sufficiently long time interval and establish the stability estimate.

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@article{arxiv.1711.09276,
  title  = {Carleman estimate for linear viscoelasticity equations and an inverse source problem},
  author = {Oleg Imanuvilov and Masahiro Yamamoto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.09276},
  year   = {2017}
}

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55 pages

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