Inverse source problems with reduced interior data for a coupled reaction-diffusion system
Abstract
We consider a two-component semilinear reaction-diffusion system in a bounded spatial domain over a time interval , which governs the water density and the vegetation biomass density for and . In this system, called the Klausmeier-Gray-Scott model, we assume that an unknown source depends only on the spatial variable and appears in the reaction-diffusion equation for . The main subject is the inverse source problem of determining a source term from limited data on . We establish two kinds of stability estimates by means of Carleman estimates. First, a Carleman estimate with a singular weight yields a Lipschitz stability estimate for the inverse source problem from data consisting of a snapshot in and in a subdomain over a time interval. Second, without assuming boundary data, we prove a H\"older stability estimate in any interior subdomain satisfying . We further study how much the observation data can be reduced while preserving uniqueness and stability in the inverse problem under suitable additional conditions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2603.28350,
title = {Inverse source problems with reduced interior data for a coupled reaction-diffusion system},
author = {Xinyue Luo and Masahiro Yamamoto and Jin Cheng},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.28350},
year = {2026}
}