On some partial data Calderón type problems with mixed boundary conditions (Q831087): Difference between revisions

In the paper under review the authors study some partial data Calderón problems with mixed boundary conditions. These problems can viewed as combination of a Calderón problem and a Robin inverse problem. The objective is to reconstruct unknown potentials in the bulk and on the boundary simultaneously. More precisely, the authors consider the following magnetic Schrödinger equation with mixed boundary conditions: \[ \begin{gathered} -\Delta u - iA\cdot \nabla u - i \nabla \cdot (Au)+ (|A|^2+V) u =0 \text{ in } \Omega,\\ \partial_\nu u + qu = 0 \text{ on } \Sigma_1,\\ u=f \text{ on } \Sigma_2,\\ u=0 \text{ on } \partial \Omega \setminus (\Sigma_1\cup \Sigma_2), \end{gathered} \] where \(\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^n\) (\(n\geq 3\)) is an open bounded \(C^2\) domain, and \(\Sigma_1\) and \(\Sigma_2\) are two disjoint relatively open sets. The bulk potentials \(V, A\) and the boundary potential \(q\) are assumed to be bounded. The authors show that if the bulk potentials \(V, A\) are compactly supported in \(\Omega_1\Subset \Omega\), then one can simultaneously recover the potentials \(V,A,q\) from the boundary measurements encoded in the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map \[ \Lambda_{A,V,q}: H^{\frac{1}{2}}(\Sigma_2)\rightarrow H^{-\frac{1}{2}}(\Sigma_2),\quad f\big|_{\Sigma_2}\mapsto \partial_{\nu}u\big|_{\Sigma_2}, \] i.e. if \(\Lambda_{A_1,V_1,q_1}=\Lambda_{A_2,V_2,q_2}\), then \(q_1=q_2\) in \(\Sigma_1\) and \(V_1=V_2\), \(\text{curl}(A_1)=\text{curl}(A_2)\) in \(\Omega\). The proof for this result relies on establishing simultaneous bulk and boundary Runge approximation results. The authors also consider the question that whether the recovery is still possible if the bulk potentials are not compactly supported in \(\Omega\)? To answer this question, the authors study a related partial Calderón problem for a class of degenerate elliptic equations, which is motivated by the Caffarelli-Silvestre characterization for the fractional Laplacian \((-\Delta)^s\): \[ \begin{gathered} \nabla \cdot x_{n+1}^{1-2s} \nabla u + V x_{n+1}^{1-2s} u =0 \text{ in } \Omega,\\ u=f \text{ on } \Sigma_2,\\ \lim_{x_{n+1}\rightarrow 0} x_{n+1}^{1-2s}\partial_{n+1}u +qu=0 \text{ on } \Sigma_1, \end{gathered} \] where additionally \(\overline{\Sigma_1}=\overline{\Omega}\cap \{x_{n+1}=0\}\) and \(\partial\Omega=\overline{\Sigma_1}\cup \overline{\Sigma_2}\). The authors show that if \(s\in (\frac{1}{2},1)\), then one can recover the potentials \(V\) and \(q\) simultaneously. The proof relies on the construction of a family of complex geometrical optics (CGO) solutions.