Determining the Acoustic Impedance in the 1-D Wave Equation via an Optimal Control Problem (Q4377399)

The paper considers the optimal control problem \[ \int^T_0 (y(0, t)- y_0(t))^2dt+ \gamma \int^1_0[(\sigma^n(x))^2+ \sigma^2(x)] dx\to \min,\tag{1} \] \[ \begin{cases}\sigma(x)y_{tt}- (\sigma(x)y_x)_x= f(x, t),\quad 0<x< 1,\;t\in\mathbb{R},\\ -\sigma(0) y_x(0, t)= g(t),\quad y(1,t)= 0,\;t\in\mathbb{R},\\ y(x, t+T)= y(x, t),\quad y_t(x, t+T)= y_t(x, t),\quad 0<x<1,\;t\in\mathbb{R},\end{cases}\tag{2} \] \[ \sigma\in U= \{\sigma\in H^2(0, 1)\mid 0< c_0\leq\sigma(t)< \infty,\;\sigma(0)= a_0\},\tag{3} \] connected with the inverse problem of the recovering the acoustic impedance distribution \(\sigma\) in seismology. In the first part of the paper are obtained sufficient conditions on the functions \(g\), \(f\) and the period \(T\) which ensure the existence and the continuous dependence on \((g,f)\) of solutions of (2) (with a fixed control \(\sigma\)). In the second part, it is shown that the problem (1)--(3) with \(\gamma>0\) and \(f=0\) has an optimal solution \((\sigma_*,y_*)\) and that this pair satisfies an analogue of the Pontryagin's maximum principle.