Partial data inverse problems for semilinear elliptic equations with gradient nonlinearities

Abstract

We show that the linear span of the set of scalar products of gradients of harmonic functions on a bounded smooth domain $\Omega \subset {\mathbb{R}}^n$ which vanish on a closed proper subset of the boundary is dense in $L^1(\Omega )$. We apply this density result to solve some partial data inverse boundary problems for a class of semilinear elliptic PDE with quadratic gradient terms.