On the transport method for hybrid inverse problems

Abstract: There are several hybrid inverse problems for equations of the form

a b l a c d o t D a b l a u - s i g m a u = 0

in which we want to obtain the coefficients

D

and

s i g m a

on a domain

O m e g a

when the solutions

u

are known. One approach is to use two solutions

u_{1}

and

u_{2}

to obtain a transport equation for the coefficient

D

, and then solve this equation inward from the boundary along the integral curves of a vector field

X

defined by

u_{1}

and

u_{2}

. It follows from an argument of Guillaume Bal and Kui Ren that for any nontrivial choices of

u_{1}

and

u_{2}

, this method suffices to recover the coefficients on a dense set in

O m e g a

. This short note presents an alternate proof of the same result from a dynamical systems point of view.

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