Inverse potential problems for divergence of measures with total variation regularization

DOI10.1007/S10208-019-09443-XMaRDI QIDQ2216254zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors L. Baratchart, C. Villalobos Guillén, D. P. Hardin, Michael C. Northington, E. B. Saff

Publication date 15 December 2020

Published in Foundations of Computational Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.08334

Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) Inverse problems for PDEs (35R30)

Abstract: We study inverse problems for the Poisson equation with source term the divergence of an

m a t h b f R^{3}

-valued measure, that is, the potential

P h i

satisfies

Delta Phi= ext{div} �oldsymbol{mu},

and

is to be reconstructed knowing (a component of) the field grad

P h i

on a set disjoint from the support of

. Such problems arise in several electro-magnetic contexts in the quasi-static regime, for instance when recovering a remanent magnetization from measurements of its magnetic field. We develop methods for recovering

based on total variation regularization. We provide sufficient conditions for the unique recovery of

, asymptotically when the regularization parameter and the noise tend to zero in a combined fashion, when it is uni-directional or when the magnetization has a support which is sparse in the sense that it is purely 1-unrectifiable. Numerical examples are provided to illustrate the main theoretical results.

Review text

This article discusses the inverse problem for the Poisson equation \(\Delta \Phi=\nabla \cdot \mu\), where \(\mu\) is an unknown signed Borel measure in \(\mathbb{R}^3\) to be recovered. The authors investigate methods for recovering \(\mu\) by penalizing the measure theoretic total variation norm. Sufficient conditions for the unique recovery of \(\mu\) are provided. Numerical examples are included to illustrate the main theoretical results.

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