Inverse spectral problems with sparse data and applications to passive imaging on manifolds

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Main Authors: Feizmohammadi, Ali, Krupchyk, Katya
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author Feizmohammadi, Ali
Krupchyk, Katya
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Krupchyk, Katya
contents Motivated by inverse problems with a single passive measurement, we introduce and analyze a new class of inverse spectral problems on closed Riemannian manifolds. Specifically, we establish two general uniqueness results for the recovery of a potential in the stationary Schrödinger operator from partial spectral data, which consists of a possibly sparse subset of its eigenvalues and the restrictions of the corresponding eigenfunctions to a nonempty open subset of the manifold. Crucially, the eigenfunctions are not assumed to be orthogonal, and no information about global norming constants is required. The partial data formulation of our inverse spectral problems is naturally suited to the analysis of inverse problems with passive measurements, where only limited observational access to the solution is available. Leveraging this structure, we establish generic uniqueness results for a broad class of evolutionary PDEs, in which both the coefficients and the initial or source data are to be recovered from knowledge of the solution restricted to a subset of spacetime. These results introduce a spectral framework for passive imaging and extend inverse spectral theory into a regime characterized by highly incomplete, yet physically realistic, data.
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spellingShingle Inverse spectral problems with sparse data and applications to passive imaging on manifolds
Feizmohammadi, Ali
Krupchyk, Katya
Analysis of PDEs
Spectral Theory
Motivated by inverse problems with a single passive measurement, we introduce and analyze a new class of inverse spectral problems on closed Riemannian manifolds. Specifically, we establish two general uniqueness results for the recovery of a potential in the stationary Schrödinger operator from partial spectral data, which consists of a possibly sparse subset of its eigenvalues and the restrictions of the corresponding eigenfunctions to a nonempty open subset of the manifold. Crucially, the eigenfunctions are not assumed to be orthogonal, and no information about global norming constants is required. The partial data formulation of our inverse spectral problems is naturally suited to the analysis of inverse problems with passive measurements, where only limited observational access to the solution is available. Leveraging this structure, we establish generic uniqueness results for a broad class of evolutionary PDEs, in which both the coefficients and the initial or source data are to be recovered from knowledge of the solution restricted to a subset of spacetime. These results introduce a spectral framework for passive imaging and extend inverse spectral theory into a regime characterized by highly incomplete, yet physically realistic, data.
title Inverse spectral problems with sparse data and applications to passive imaging on manifolds
topic Analysis of PDEs
Spectral Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22723