Recovery of a cubic non-linearity in the wave equation in the weakly non-linear regime

DOI10.1007/S00220-022-04359-0zbMATH Open1487.35453arXiv2102.06323OpenAlexW3130106187MaRDI QIDQ2129288FDOQ2129288

Plamen Stefanov, Antonio Sá Barreto

Publication date: 22 April 2022

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the inverse problem of recovery a compactly supported non-linearity in the semilinear wave equation $u_{tt}-Deltau+alpha(x)|u{|}^{2}u=0$, in two and three dimensions. We probe the medium with complex-valued harmonic waves of wavelength $h$ and amplitude $h^{-1/2}$, then they propagate in the weakly non-linear regime; and measure the transmitted wave when it exits the support of $alpha$. We show that one can extract the Radon transform of $alpha$ from the phase shift of such waves, and then one can recover $alpha$. We also show that one can probe the medium with real-valued harmonic waves and obtain uniqueness for the linearized problem.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.06323

zbMATH Keywords

compactly supported nonlinearitycomplex-valued harmonic wavesreal-valued harmonic waves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Initial value problems for second-order hyperbolic equations (35L15) Second-order semilinear hyperbolic equations (35L71) Inverse problems for PDEs (35R30)

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