Propagation of singularities and inverse problems for the viscoacoustic wave equation
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| author | Covi, Giovanni de Hoop, Maarten Salo, Mikko |
| author_facet | Covi, Giovanni de Hoop, Maarten Salo, Mikko |
| contents | We study an inverse problem for the viscoacoustic wave equation, an integro-differential model describing wave propagation in viscoacoustic media with memory in the leading order term. The medium is characterized by a spatially varying sound speed and a space-time dependent memory kernel. Assuming that waves are generated by sources supported outside the region of interest, we consider exterior measurements encoded by the source-to-solution map. To study this inverse problem, we construct solutions concentrating near fixed geodesics and establish a corresponding propagation of singularities result for the semiclassical wave front set. These results are valid without any restriction on the underlying sound speed. Then, under certain geometric conditions, we prove that the exterior data uniquely determine not just the sound speed inside the domain but also all time derivatives at zero of the memory kernel. This involves a reduction to the lens rigidity and geodesic ray transform inverse problems. As an application, we establish uniqueness for the recovery of variable parameters in the extended Maxwell model. |
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| spellingShingle | Propagation of singularities and inverse problems for the viscoacoustic wave equation Covi, Giovanni de Hoop, Maarten Salo, Mikko Analysis of PDEs 35R30 We study an inverse problem for the viscoacoustic wave equation, an integro-differential model describing wave propagation in viscoacoustic media with memory in the leading order term. The medium is characterized by a spatially varying sound speed and a space-time dependent memory kernel. Assuming that waves are generated by sources supported outside the region of interest, we consider exterior measurements encoded by the source-to-solution map. To study this inverse problem, we construct solutions concentrating near fixed geodesics and establish a corresponding propagation of singularities result for the semiclassical wave front set. These results are valid without any restriction on the underlying sound speed. Then, under certain geometric conditions, we prove that the exterior data uniquely determine not just the sound speed inside the domain but also all time derivatives at zero of the memory kernel. This involves a reduction to the lens rigidity and geodesic ray transform inverse problems. As an application, we establish uniqueness for the recovery of variable parameters in the extended Maxwell model. |
| title | Propagation of singularities and inverse problems for the viscoacoustic wave equation |
| topic | Analysis of PDEs 35R30 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.24497 |