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Prescribed nonlinearity helps in an anisotropic Calder\'on-type problem

Analysis of PDEs 2024-06-24 v1

Abstract

In this paper I consider the inverse boundary value problem for a quasilinear, anisotropic, elliptic equation of the form (γu+up2u)=0\nabla\cdot(\gamma\nabla u+|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u)=0, where γ\gamma is a smooth, matrix valued, function with a uniform lower bound. I show that boundary Dirichlet and Neumann data for this equation, in the form of a Dirichlet-to-Neumann map, determine the coefficient matrix uniquely, in dimension 3 and higher. This stands in contrast to the classical linear anisotropic Calder\'on problem where there is a known obstruction to uniqueness due to the invariance of the boundary data under transformations of the equation via any boundary fixing diffeomorphism.

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@article{arxiv.2406.14970,
  title  = {Prescribed nonlinearity helps in an anisotropic Calder\'on-type problem},
  author = {Cătălin I. Cârstea},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.14970},
  year   = {2024}
}
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