Uniqueness, stability and global convergence for a discrete inverse elliptic Robin transmission problem

  • We derive a simple criterion that ensures uniqueness, Lipschitz stability and global convergence of Newton’s method for the finite dimensional zero-finding problem of a continuously differentiable, pointwise convex and monotonic function. Our criterion merely requires to evaluate the directional derivative of the forward function at finitely many evaluation points and for finitely many directions. We then demonstrate that this result can be used to prove uniqueness, stability and global convergence for an inverse coefficient problem with finitely many measurements. We consider the problem of determining an unknown inverse Robin transmission coefficient in an elliptic PDE. Using a relation to monotonicity and localized potentials techniques, we show that a piecewise-constant coefficient on an a-priori known partition with a-priori known bounds is uniquely determined by finitely many boundary measurements and that it can be uniquely and stably reconstructed by a globally convergent Newton iteration. We derive a constructive method to identify these boundary measurements, calculate the stability constant and give a numerical example.

Download full text files

Export metadata

Metadaten
Author:Bastian von HarrachORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-637808
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s00211-020-01162-8
ISSN:0945-3245
Parent Title (English):Numerische Mathematik
Publisher:Springer
Place of publication:Berlin ; Heidelberg
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2020/11/18
Date of first Publication:2020/11/18
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2022/10/20
Volume:147
Issue:1
Page Number:42
First Page:29
Last Page:70
Note:
Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.
HeBIS-PPN:505147483
Institutes:Informatik und Mathematik / Mathematik
Dewey Decimal Classification:5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 51 Mathematik / 510 Mathematik
MSC-Classification:35-XX PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS / 35Rxx Miscellaneous topics (For equations on manifolds, see 58Jxx; for manifolds of solutions, see 58Bxx; for stochastic PDE, see also 60H15) / 35R30 Inverse problems
58-XX GLOBAL ANALYSIS, ANALYSIS ON MANIFOLDS [See also 32Cxx, 32Fxx, 32Wxx, 46-XX, 47Hxx, 53Cxx](For geometric integration theory, see 49Q15) / 58Cxx Calculus on manifolds; nonlinear operators [See also 46Txx, 47Hxx, 47Jxx] / 58C15 Implicit function theorems; global Newton methods
65-XX NUMERICAL ANALYSIS / 65Mxx Partial differential equations, initial value and time-dependent initial- boundary value problems / 65M32 Inverse problems
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0