On passive recovery of structured elastic density and initial states

Abstract

We study simultaneous recovery of the (variable) mass density, initial displacement, and initial velocity for the three-dimensional isotropic elastic wave equation with known constant Lamé parameters. The data are the complete displacement trace on an enclosing boundary. We first assume that the density-weighted initial displacement and velocity have fixed known profiles in one spatial direction. The $s^0$ and $s^1$ coefficients of the zero-frequency Laplace expansion identify these weighted states. The $s^2$ and $s^3$ coefficients then give static Lamé orthogonality identities for the density difference. The exact difference expansion through order $s^3$ has an $O(s^4)$ remainder, uniformly on bounded spatial sets and bounded density-contrast and weighted-state classes. Under alignment of the two initial states and a nonzero moment of the density-weighted initial velocity, the two density identities reduce to a constant-vector static transform. Two opposite elastic null phases give uniqueness for one or two fixed vertical density profiles when the profile family is two-sided Laplace nondegenerate. When $\lambda +\mu \ne 0$, each nonzero normal root has partial multiplicities $2$ and $1$ and admits a length-two Jordan chain. The associated polynomial--exponential Lamé mode produces derivatives of the bilateral profile transforms. The resulting Hermite--Laplace system gives uniqueness for aligned classes with up to four fixed vertical profiles and independent horizontal coefficients, provided that the profile system is Hermite--Laplace nondegenerate. Distinct translations of one compactly supported profile provide an explicit four-profile class. We also prove rigidity of the alignment reduction and exhibit an infinite-dimensional kernel for the reduced transform on unrestricted densities.

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