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Global uniqueness in an inverse problem for time fractional diffusion equations

Analysis of PDEs 2016-01-06 v1

Abstract

Given (M,g)(M,g), a compact connected Riemannian manifold of dimension d2d \geq 2, with boundary M\partial M, we consider an initial boundary value problem for a fractional diffusion equation on (0,T)×M(0,T) \times M, T>0T>0, with time-fractional Caputo derivative of order α(0,1)(1,2)\alpha \in (0,1) \cup (1,2). We prove uniqueness in the inverse problem of determining the smooth manifold (M,g)(M,g) (up to an isometry), and various time-independent smooth coefficients appearing in this equation, from measurements of the solution on a subset of M\partial M at fixed time. In the "flat" case where MM is a compact subset of Rd\mathbb R^d, two out the three coefficients ρ\rho (weight), aa (conductivity) and qq (potential) appearing in the equation ρtαudiv(au)+qu=0\rho \partial_t^\alpha u-\textrm{div}(a \nabla u)+ q u=0 on (0,T)×Ω(0,T)\times \Omega are recovered simultaneously.

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@article{arxiv.1601.00810,
  title  = {Global uniqueness in an inverse problem for time fractional diffusion equations},
  author = {Yavar Kian and Lauri Oksanen and Eric Soccorsi and Masahiro Yamamoto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.00810},
  year   = {2016}
}
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