Carleman estimates for the heat equation with discontinuous diffusion coefficients

DOI10.1080/00036810802140665zbMath1152.35389MaRDI QIDQ5503677

Olivier Poisson

Publication date: 16 January 2009

Published in: Applicable Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/00036810802140665

zbMATH Keywords

heat equation; discontinuous coefficients; Carleman estimates

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35K55: Nonlinear parabolic equations

35K05: Heat equation

35R30: Inverse problems for PDEs

35R05: PDEs with low regular coefficients and/or low regular data

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