Recovery of time-dependent damping coefficients and potentials appearing in wave equations from partial data

We consider the inverse problem of determining a time-dependent damping coefficient $a$ and a time-dependent potential $q$, appearing in the wave equation $\partial_t^2u-\Delta_x u+a(t,x)\partial_tu+q(t,x)u=0$ in $Q=(0,T)\times\Omega$, with $T>0$ and $\Omega$ a $\mathcal C^2$ bounded domain of $\mathbb R^n$, $n\geq2$, from partial observations of the solutions on $\partial Q$. More precisely, we look for observations on $\partial Q$ that allow to determine uniquely a large class of time-dependent damping coefficients $a$ and time-dependent potentials $q$ without involving an important set of data. We prove global unique determination of $a\in W^{1,p}(Q)$, with $p>n+1$, and $q\in L^\infty(Q)$ from partial observations on $\partial Q$

Determination of singular time-dependent coefficients for wave equations from full and partial data

We study the problem of determining uniquely a time-dependent singular potential $q$, appearing in the wave equation $\partial_t^2u-\Delta_x u+q(t,x)u=0$ in $Q=(0,T)\times\Omega$ with $T>0$ and $\Omega$ a $\mathcal C^2$ bounded domain of $\mathbb R^n$, $n\geq2$. We start by considering the unique determination of some singular time-dependent coefficients from observations on $\partial Q$. Then, by weakening the singularities of the set of admissible coefficients, we manage to reduce the set of data that still guaranties unique recovery of such a coefficient. To our best knowledge, this paper is the first claiming unique determination of unbounded time-dependent coefficients, which is motivated by the problem of determining general nonlinear terms appearing in nonlinear wave equations

Stability in the determination of a time-dependent coefficient for wave equations from partial data

We consider the stability in the inverse problem consisting of the determination of a time-dependent coefficient of order zero $q$, appearing in a Dirichlet initial-boundary value problem for a wave equation $\partial_t^2u-\Delta u+q(t,x)u=0$ in $Q=(0,T)\times\Omega$ with $\Omega$ a $C^2$ bounded domain of $\mathbb R^n$, $n\geq2$, from partial observations on $\partial Q$. The observation is given by a boundary operator associated to the wave equation. Using suitable complex geometric optics solutions and Carleman estimates, we prove a stability estimate in the determination of $q$ from the boundary operator

Partial data inverse problem for hyperbolic equation with time-dependent damping coefficient and potential

We study an inverse problem of determining time-dependent damping coefficient and potential appearing in the wave equation in a compact Riemannian manifold of dimension three or higher. More specifically, we are concerned with the case of conformally transversally anisotropic manifolds, or in other words, compact Riemannian manifolds with boundary conformally embedded in a product of the Euclidean line and a transversal manifold. With an additional assumption of the attenuated geodesic ray transform being injective on the transversal manifold, we prove that the knowledge of a certain partial Cauchy data set determines time-dependent damping coefficient and potential uniquely.Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1702.07974 by other author

Stability estimate in an inverse problem for non-autonomous Schr\"odinger equations

We consider the inverse problem of determining the time dependent magnetic field of the Schr\"odinger equation in a bounded open subset of $R^n$, with $n \geq 1$, from a finite number of Neumann data, when the boundary measurement is taken on an appropriate open subset of the boundary. We prove the Lispchitz stability of the magnetic potential in the Coulomb gauge class by $n$ times changing initial value suitably