Duality between range and no-response tests and its application for inverse problems

Boundary value and inverse problems for harmonic functions in higher dimensions (31B20) Second-order elliptic equations (35J15) Numerical methods for inverse problems for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N21)

Abstract: In this paper we will show the duality between the range test (RT) and no-response test (NRT) for the inverse boundary value problem for the Laplace equation in

O m e g a s e t m i n u s o v e r l i n e D

with an obstacle

D S u b s e t O m e g a

whose boundary

p a r t i a l D

is visible from the boundary

p a r t i a l O m e g a

of

O m e g a

and a measurement is given as a set of Cauchy data on

p a r t i a l O m e g a

. Here the Cauchy data is given by a unique solution

u

of the boundary value problem for the Laplace equation in

O m e g a s e t m i n u s o v e r l i n e D

with homogeneous and inhomogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition on

p a r t i a l D

and

p a r t i a l O m e g a

, respectively. These testing methods are domain sampling method to estimate the location of the obstacle using test domains and the associated indicator functions. Also both of these testing methods can test the analytic extension of

u

to the exterior of a test domain. Since these methods are defined via some operators which are dual to each other, we could expect that there is a duality between the two methods. We will give this duality in terms of the equivalence of the pre-indicator functions associated to their indicator functions. As an application of the duality, the reconstruction of

D

using the RT gives the reconstruction of

D

using the NRT and vice versa. We will also give each of these reconstructions without using the duality if the Dirichlet data of the Cauchy data on

p a r t i a l O m e g a

is not identically zero and the solution to the associated forward problem does not have any analytic extension across

p a r t i a l D

. Moreover, we will show that these methods can still give the reconstruction of

D

if

D

is a convex polygon and it satisfies one of the following two properties: all of its corner angles are irrational and its diameter is less than its distance to

p a r t i a l O m e g a

.

Review text

The authors show the duality between range and no-response tests for an inverse boundary value problem for the Laplace equation in \(\Omega \setminus \overline{D}\) with an unknown obstacle \(D\) whose closure is contained in \(\Omega\). They consider the boundary value problem \[ \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} \Delta u=0 & \mbox{in}\ \Omega \setminus \overline{D}\, ,\\ u=0 & \mbox{on}\ \partial D \, ,\\ u=f & \mbox{on}\ \partial \Omega \, . \end{array} \right. \] The Cauchy data is the pair made by Dirichlet datum \(f\) and the normal derivative \(\partial_\nu u_{|\partial \Omega}\). The inverse problem consists into identifying the unknown obstacle \(D\), knowing the Cauchy data \(\{f, \partial_\nu u_{|\partial \Omega}\}\). The authors prove that there is a duality between the range test (RT) and the no-response test (NRT) for the inverse boundary value problem. As an application, they show that either using the RT or NRT, we can reconstruct the obstacle \(D\) from the Cauchy data if the solution \(u\) does not have any analytic extension across \(\partial D\).

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