A conditional stability theorem in the problem of determining the dispersion index and relaxation for the stationary transport equation (Q1363466): Difference between revisions

The article under review is devoted to determining the relaxation coefficient \( \sigma (x) \) and the dispersion index \( K (x, \nu \cdot \nu') \) in the transport equation \[ \text{grad} \cdot \nu + \int\nolimits_{S^2} K(x, \nu \cdot \nu') u (x, \nu') d \nu', \quad (x, \nu ) \in G \equiv D \times S^2, \] from the trace of its solution on the Cartesian product \( \partial_+ G \times S^2 \) and a special boundary condition on \( \partial_- G \). Here \( \partial_{\pm} G = \{(x, \nu ) \mid \nu \in S^2 ,\;x \in S^2 ,\;\pm 1 \cdot \nu \cdot x > 0 \} \), \( D \) is the unit ball in \( \mathbb{R}^3 \), \( S^2 = \partial D \). The author obtains a collection of various estimates for some special representations of solutions to this inverse problem and for their functionals and proves that, for sufficiently small \( \varepsilon >0\), this problem has at most one solution \( \sigma, K \) such that the \( C^1 \)-norms of these functions do not exceed \( \varepsilon \). Similar inverse problems were considered in the author's previous publications [Sib. Math. J. 35, No.6, 1184-1201 (1994; Zbl 0861.35142), Sib. Math. J. 37, No.2, 308-324 (1996)].