The inverse obstacle problem for nonlinear inclusions

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Main Authors: Mottola, Vincenzo, Esposito, Antonio Corbo, Faella, Luisa, Piscitelli, Gianpaolo, Prakash, Ravi, Tamburrino, Antonello
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author Mottola, Vincenzo
Esposito, Antonio Corbo
Faella, Luisa
Piscitelli, Gianpaolo
Prakash, Ravi
Tamburrino, Antonello
author_facet Mottola, Vincenzo
Esposito, Antonio Corbo
Faella, Luisa
Piscitelli, Gianpaolo
Prakash, Ravi
Tamburrino, Antonello
contents The Monotonocity Principle (MP), stating a monotonic relationship between a material property and a proper corresponding boundary operator, is attracting great interest in the field of inverse problems, because of its fundamental role in developing real time imaging methods. Moreover, under quite general assumptions, a MP for elliptic PDEs with nonlinear coefficients has been established. This MP provided the basis for introducing a new imaging method to deal with the inverse obstacle problem, in the presence of nonlinear anomalies. This constitutes a relevant novelty because there is a general lack of quantitative and physic based imaging method, when nonlinearities are present. The introduction of a MP based imaging method poses a set of fundamental questions regarding the performance of the method in the presence of noise. The main contribution of this work is focused on theoretical aspects and consists in proving that (i) the imaging method is stable and robust with respect to the noise, (ii) the reconstruction approaches monotonically to a well-defined limit, as the noise level approaches to zero, and that (iii) the limit contains the unknown set and is contained in the outer boundary of the unknown set. Results (i) and (ii) come directly from the Monotonicity Principle, while results (iii) requires to prove the so-called Converse of the Monotonicity Principle, a theoretical sults of fundamental relevance to evaluate the ideal (noise-free) performances of the imaging method. The results are provided in a quite general setting for Calderòn problem, and proved for three wide classes where the nonlinearity of the anomaly can be either bounded from infinity and zero, or bounded from zero only, or bounded by infinity only. These classes of constitutive relationships cover the wide majority of cases encountered in applications.
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spellingShingle The inverse obstacle problem for nonlinear inclusions
Mottola, Vincenzo
Esposito, Antonio Corbo
Faella, Luisa
Piscitelli, Gianpaolo
Prakash, Ravi
Tamburrino, Antonello
Analysis of PDEs
Signal Processing
The Monotonocity Principle (MP), stating a monotonic relationship between a material property and a proper corresponding boundary operator, is attracting great interest in the field of inverse problems, because of its fundamental role in developing real time imaging methods. Moreover, under quite general assumptions, a MP for elliptic PDEs with nonlinear coefficients has been established. This MP provided the basis for introducing a new imaging method to deal with the inverse obstacle problem, in the presence of nonlinear anomalies. This constitutes a relevant novelty because there is a general lack of quantitative and physic based imaging method, when nonlinearities are present. The introduction of a MP based imaging method poses a set of fundamental questions regarding the performance of the method in the presence of noise. The main contribution of this work is focused on theoretical aspects and consists in proving that (i) the imaging method is stable and robust with respect to the noise, (ii) the reconstruction approaches monotonically to a well-defined limit, as the noise level approaches to zero, and that (iii) the limit contains the unknown set and is contained in the outer boundary of the unknown set. Results (i) and (ii) come directly from the Monotonicity Principle, while results (iii) requires to prove the so-called Converse of the Monotonicity Principle, a theoretical sults of fundamental relevance to evaluate the ideal (noise-free) performances of the imaging method. The results are provided in a quite general setting for Calderòn problem, and proved for three wide classes where the nonlinearity of the anomaly can be either bounded from infinity and zero, or bounded from zero only, or bounded by infinity only. These classes of constitutive relationships cover the wide majority of cases encountered in applications.
title The inverse obstacle problem for nonlinear inclusions
topic Analysis of PDEs
Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.08040