Determining a parabolic system by boundary observation of its non-negative solutions with biological applications

DOI10.1088/1361-6420/AD149FarXiv2303.13045OpenAlexW4389606562MaRDI QIDQ6136779FDOQ6136779

Catharine Wing Kwan Lo, Hongyu Liu

Publication date: 17 January 2024

Published in: Inverse Problems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper, we consider the inverse problem of determining some coefficients within a coupled nonlinear parabolic system, through boundary observation of its non-negative solutions. In the physical setup, the non-negative solutions represent certain probability densities in different contexts. We innovate the successive linearisation method by further developing a high-order variation scheme which can both ensure the positivity of the solutions and effectively tackle the nonlinear inverse problem. This enables us to establish several novel unique identifiability results for the inverse problem in a rather general setup. For a theoretical perspective, our study addresses an important topic in PDE analysis on how to characterise the function spaces generated by the products of non-positive solutions of parabolic PDEs. As a typical and practically interesting application, we apply our general results to inverse problems for ecological population models, where the positive solutions signify the population densities.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.13045

zbMATH Keywords

nonlinear parabolic systempositive solutionsinverse boundary problemprobability densitiesunique identifiabilityhigh-order variationsuccessive linearisation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quasilinear parabolic equations (35K59) Initial-boundary value problems for second-order parabolic systems (35K51) Inverse problems for PDEs (35R30) Numerical methods for inverse problems for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M32)

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