Stability for backward problems in time for degenerate parabolic equations

Abstract: For solution

u (x, t)

to degenearte parabolic equations in a bounded domain

O m e g a

with homogenous boundary condition, we consider backward problems in time: determine

u (c d o t, t_{0})

in

O m e g a

by

u (c d o t, T)

, where

t

is the time variable and

0 l e t_{0} < T

. Our main results are conditional stability under boundedness assumptions on

u (c d o t, 0)

. The proof is based on a weighted

L^{2}

-estimate of

u

whose weight depends only on

t

, which is an inequality of Carleman's type. Moreover our method is applied to semilinear degenerate parabolic equations.

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