A1 Journal article (refereed)
Monotonicity and local uniqueness for the Helmholtz equation (2019)


Harrach, B., Pohjola, V., & Salo, M. (2019). Monotonicity and local uniqueness for the Helmholtz equation. Analysis and PDE, 12(7), 2019. https://doi.org/10.2140/apde.2019.12.1741


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All authors or editors: Harrach, Bastian; Pohjola, Valter; Salo, Mikko

Journal or series: Analysis and PDE

ISSN: 2157-5045

eISSN: 1948-206X

Publication year: 2019

Volume: 12

Issue number: 7

Pages range: 2019

Article number: 1741-1771

Publisher: Mathematical Sciences Publishers

Publication country: United States

Publication language: English

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2140/apde.2019.12.1741

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Publication is parallel published (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/65183

Publication is parallel published: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.08756


Abstract

This work extends monotonicity-based methods in inverse problems to the case of the Helmholtz (or stationary Schrödinger) equation (1 + k2q)u = 0 in a bounded domain for fixed nonresonance frequency k > 0 and real-valued scattering coefficient function q. We show a monotonicity relation between the scattering coefficient q and the local Neumann-to-Dirichlet operator that holds up to finitely many eigenvalues. Combining this with the method of localized potentials, or Runge approximation, adapted to the case where finitely many constraints are present, we derive a constructive monotonicitybased characterization of scatterers from partial boundary data. We also obtain the local uniqueness result that two coefficient functions q1 and q2 can be distinguished by partial boundary data if there is a
neighborhood of the boundary part where q1 ≥ q2 and q1 6≡ q2.


Keywords: inverse problems

Free keywords: inverse coefficient problems; Helmholtz equation; stationary Schrödinger equation; monotonicity, localized
potentials


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VIRTA submission year: 2019

JUFO rating: 3


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