Hölder stability for an inverse medium problem with internal data (Q2319863)

The authors consider Hölder stability properties for an inverse problem with internal data. Such inverse problems arise when two different physical modalities are combined at the same time, with the aim of obtaining images of high contrast and high resolution. In practice, instead of solving one severely ill-posed inverse problem, as those arising from inverse boundary value problems, one is faced with two mildly ill-posed inverse problems. In the first step, internal data is reconstructed. In the second step, the unknown has to be recovered from the internal data. The focus of this work is on stability properties for the second step for a specific problem. More precisely, they consider the elliptic equation \[ -\Delta u_V + Vu_V=0 \] in a bounded smooth domain \(\Omega\subseteq\mathbb{R}^n\), \(n=2,3\). The inverse problem consists of the reconstruction of the unknown potential \(V\in L^\infty(\Omega)\) from the internal data \[ I_V = Vu_V^2\quad\text{in \(\Omega\)}. \] They obtain several Hölder stability results of the type \[ \|V-\tilde{V}\|_{L^{\infty}} \leq C\left\|I_{V}^{1 / 2}-I_{\tilde{V}}^{1 / 2}\right\|_{H^{1}}^{\mu}, \] where \(\mu0\) is the Hölder exponent.