Reconstruction of coefficients in the double phase problem

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Main Authors: Cârstea, Cătălin I., Zimmermann, Philipp
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author Cârstea, Cătălin I.
Zimmermann, Philipp
author_facet Cârstea, Cătălin I.
Zimmermann, Philipp
contents The main purpose of this article is to reconstruct the nonnegative coefficient $a$ in the double phase problem $\mathrm{div}\,(|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u+a|\nabla u|^{q-2}\nabla u)=0$ in a domain $Ω$, $u=f$ on $\partialΩ$, from the Dirichlet to Neumann (DN) map $Λ_a$. We show that this can be achieved, when the coefficient $a$ has Hölder continuous first order derivatives and the exponents satisfy $1<p\neq q<\infty$. Our reconstruction method relies on a careful analysis of the asymptotic behavior of the solution $u$ to the double phase problem with small or large Dirichlet datum $f$ (depending on the ordering of $p$ and $q$) as well as the related DN map $Λ_a$. As is common for inverse boundary value problems, we need a sufficiently rich family of special solutions to a related partial differential equation, which is independent of the coefficient one aims to reconstruct (in our case to the $p$-Laplace equation). We construct such families of solutions by a suitable linearization technique.
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spellingShingle Reconstruction of coefficients in the double phase problem
Cârstea, Cătălin I.
Zimmermann, Philipp
Analysis of PDEs
Primary 35R30, secondary 35J62, 35J70
The main purpose of this article is to reconstruct the nonnegative coefficient $a$ in the double phase problem $\mathrm{div}\,(|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u+a|\nabla u|^{q-2}\nabla u)=0$ in a domain $Ω$, $u=f$ on $\partialΩ$, from the Dirichlet to Neumann (DN) map $Λ_a$. We show that this can be achieved, when the coefficient $a$ has Hölder continuous first order derivatives and the exponents satisfy $1<p\neq q<\infty$. Our reconstruction method relies on a careful analysis of the asymptotic behavior of the solution $u$ to the double phase problem with small or large Dirichlet datum $f$ (depending on the ordering of $p$ and $q$) as well as the related DN map $Λ_a$. As is common for inverse boundary value problems, we need a sufficiently rich family of special solutions to a related partial differential equation, which is independent of the coefficient one aims to reconstruct (in our case to the $p$-Laplace equation). We construct such families of solutions by a suitable linearization technique.
title Reconstruction of coefficients in the double phase problem
topic Analysis of PDEs
Primary 35R30, secondary 35J62, 35J70
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.01691