Recovery of coefficients in semilinear transport equations

Abstract

We consider the inverse problem for time-dependent semilinear transport equations. We show that time-independent coefficients of both the linear (absorption or scattering coefficients) and nonlinear terms can be uniquely determined, in a stable way, from the boundary measurements by applying a linearization scheme and Carleman estimates for the linear transport equations. We establish results in both Euclidean and general geometry settings.

33 pages, to appear in Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal