Uniqueness and stability for the recovery of a time-dependent source in elastodynamics (Q2188147)

From the abstract: ``This paper is concerned with inverse source problems for the time-dependent Lamé system in an unbounded domain corresponding to either the exterior of a bounded cavity or the full space \(\mathbb R^3\). If the time and spatial variables of the source term can be separated with compact support, we prove that the vector-valued spatial source term can be uniquely determined by boundary Dirichlet data in the exterior of a given cavity. Uniqueness and stability for recovering some class of time-dependent source terms are also obtained by using, respectively, partial and full boundary data.'' A salient feature is that these results apply to spatially varying (\(C^3\)) coefficients inside a bounded region (but constant outside) and that the uniqueness result does not assume a non-vanishing source at \(t=0\). The stability result is a conditional stability (for sources with bounded \(H^3\)-\(H^3\) as well as \(H^4\)-\(L^2\) time-space norms) and estimates the \(L^2\) norm of the source inside a ball by the \(H^3\)-\(H^3/2\) norm of the data plus a logarithmic term.