Unique continuation and inverse problem for an anisotropic beam bending equation (Q6042659)

This article is concerned with the unique continuation of the principal and inverse problem of a perturbed anisotropic fourth-order elliptic operator arising in elastic beam theory, where the principle part of the operator is modelled by the non-rotational fourth order symmetric operator. The authors obtain the three-ball inequality, stability estimates, strong unique continuation principle, and finally the inverse boundary value problem of recovering the coefficients featuring the bending stiffness of the material.