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Inverse boundary value problem by measuring Dirichlet data and Neumann data on disjoint sets. (English) Zbl 1222.35213

Summary: We discuss the inverse boundary value problem of determining the conductivity in two dimensions from the pair of all input Dirichlet data supported on an open subset \(\Gamma _{+}\) and all the corresponding Neumann data measured on an open subset \(\Gamma _{-}\). We prove the global uniqueness under some additional geometric condition, in the case where \(\overline{\Gamma _+ \cap \Gamma _-} = \emptyset \), and we prove also the uniqueness for a similar inverse problem for the stationary Schrödinger equation. The key of the proof is the construction of appropriate complex geometrical optics solutions using Carleman estimates with a singular weight.

MSC:

35R30 Inverse problems for PDEs
35J25 Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations
35B45 A priori estimates in context of PDEs
35A02 Uniqueness problems for PDEs: global uniqueness, local uniqueness, non-uniqueness