Reconstruction of extended sources with small supports in the elliptic equation \(\Delta u+\mu u=F\) from a single Cauchy data (Q387777)

The authors consider the problem of determining the right-hand side \(F\) in the elliptic equation \(\Delta u +\mu u = F\) in \(\Omega \in \mathbb{R}^3\) from a single Cauchy data \((u|_{\partial \Omega},\frac{\partial u}{\partial n}|_{\partial \Omega})\) prescribed on the boundary \(\partial \Omega\) of \(\Omega\) with \(\mu\) being a fixed known real number. As for a general source \(F\) cannot be identified from boundary measurements when no a priori information is available, the authors assume that \(F\) represents sources having compact support within a finite number of subdomains: \(F = \sum_{j=1}^N q_j \chi_{D_j}\) with \(D_j = S_j + \epsilon B_j\) where \(S_j = (x_j,y_j,z_j)\) and \(B_j \subset \mathbb{R}^3\) is a bounded domain containing the origin. The points \(S_j \in \Omega\) are assumed to be mutually distinct and \(\epsilon\) is a real number less than \(1\), and \(q_j\) are constants.