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Main Authors: Johansson, David, Nurminen, Janne, Salo, Mikko
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.12196
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author Johansson, David
Nurminen, Janne
Salo, Mikko
author_facet Johansson, David
Nurminen, Janne
Salo, Mikko
contents This article studies the inverse problem of recovering a nonlinearity in an elliptic equation $Δu + a(x,u) = 0$ from boundary measurements of solutions. Previous results based on first order linearization achieve this under a sign condition on $\partial_u a(x,u)$, and results based on higher order linearization recover the Taylor series of $a(x,u)$ with respect to $u$. We improve these results and show that a general nonlinearity, and not just its Taylor series, is uniquely determined up to gauge near a fixed solution. Our method is based on constructing a good solution map that locally parametrizes solutions of the nonlinear equation by solutions of the linearized equation.
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spellingShingle Inverse problems for semilinear elliptic PDE with a general nonlinearity $a(x,u)$
Johansson, David
Nurminen, Janne
Salo, Mikko
Analysis of PDEs
This article studies the inverse problem of recovering a nonlinearity in an elliptic equation $Δu + a(x,u) = 0$ from boundary measurements of solutions. Previous results based on first order linearization achieve this under a sign condition on $\partial_u a(x,u)$, and results based on higher order linearization recover the Taylor series of $a(x,u)$ with respect to $u$. We improve these results and show that a general nonlinearity, and not just its Taylor series, is uniquely determined up to gauge near a fixed solution. Our method is based on constructing a good solution map that locally parametrizes solutions of the nonlinear equation by solutions of the linearized equation.
title Inverse problems for semilinear elliptic PDE with a general nonlinearity $a(x,u)$
topic Analysis of PDEs
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.12196