A formula for finding a potential from nodal lines

DOI10.1090/S0273-0979-1995-00584-7MaRDI QIDQ4884442zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Joyce McLaughlin, Ole H. Hald

Publication date 14 July 1996

Published in Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9504226

zbMATH Keywords

approximationDirichlet boundary conditionselliptic equationuniquenessinverse nodal problemsnodal lines of the eigenfunctions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic distributions of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P20) Inverse problems for PDEs (35R30) Inverse problems for waves in solid mechanics (74J25)

Abstract: In this announcement we consider an eigenvalue problem which arises in the study of rectangular membranes. The mathematical model is an elliptic equation, in potential form, with Dirichlet boundary conditions. We have shown that the potential is uniquely determined, up to an additive constant, by a subset of the nodal lines of the eigenfunctions. A formula is given which, when the additive constant is fixed, yields an approximation to the potential at a dense set of points. An estimate is presented for the error made by the formula.

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