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Inverse source problems with reduced interior data for a coupled reaction-diffusion system

Analysis of PDEs 2026-03-31 v1

Abstract

We consider a two-component semilinear reaction-diffusion system in a bounded spatial domain Ω\Omega over a time interval (0,T)(0,T), which governs the water density u(x,t)u(x,t) and the vegetation biomass density v(x,t)v(x,t) for xΩx\in\Omega and 0<t<T0<t<T. 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 uu. The main subject is the inverse source problem of determining a source term from limited data on (u,v)(u,v). 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 u(,t0)u(\cdot,t_0) in Ω\Omega and (u,v)(u,v) in a subdomain ω\omega over a time interval. Second, without assuming boundary data, we prove a H\"older stability estimate in any interior subdomain Ω0\Omega_0 satisfying Ω0Ω\overline{\Omega_0}\subset\Omega. We further study how much the observation data can be reduced while preserving uniqueness and stability in the inverse problem under suitable additional conditions.

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@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}
}
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