Duality between range and no-response tests and its application for inverse problems (Q2037217)

The authors show the duality between range and no-response tests for an inverse boundary value problem for the Laplace equation in \(\Omega \setminus \overline{D}\) with an unknown obstacle \(D\) whose closure is contained in \(\Omega\). They consider the boundary value problem \[ \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} \Delta u=0 & \mbox{in}\ \Omega \setminus \overline{D}\, ,\\ u=0 & \mbox{on}\ \partial D \, ,\\ u=f & \mbox{on}\ \partial \Omega \, . \end{array} \right. \] The Cauchy data is the pair made by Dirichlet datum \(f\) and the normal derivative \(\partial_\nu u_{|\partial \Omega}\). The inverse problem consists into identifying the unknown obstacle \(D\), knowing the Cauchy data \(\{f, \partial_\nu u_{|\partial \Omega}\}\). The authors prove that there is a duality between the range test (RT) and the no-response test (NRT) for the inverse boundary value problem. As an application, they show that either using the RT or NRT, we can reconstruct the obstacle \(D\) from the Cauchy data if the solution \(u\) does not have any analytic extension across \(\partial D\).