Published February 2013 | Version v1
Journal article

Increasing stability in an inverse problem for the acoustic equation

  • 1. Department of Mathematical Science, Graduate School of Material Science, University of Hyogo, 2167 Shosha, Himeji, Hyogo 671-2280 (Japan)
  • 2. Department of Mathematics, University of Washington, Box 354305, Seattle, WA 98195-4350 (United States)
  • 3. Department of Mathematics, NCTS (Taipei), National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan (China)

Description

In this work, we study the inverse boundary value problem of determining the refractive index in the acoustic equation. It is known that this inverse problem is ill-posed. Nonetheless, we show that the ill-posedness decreases when we increase the frequency and the stability estimate changes from logarithmic type for low frequencies to a Lipschitz estimate for large frequencies. (paper)

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0266-5611/29/2/025012

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Inverse Problems
Journal Volume
29
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
[11 p.]
ISSN
0266-5611
CODEN
INVPET

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
45035521
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
ACOUSTICS; BOUNDARY-VALUE PROBLEMS; INVERSE SCATTERING PROBLEM; MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; STABILITY
Descriptors DEC
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EQUATIONS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES