American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

February  2011, 5(1): 59-73. doi: 10.3934/ipi.2011.5.59

Global uniqueness for an inverse problem for the magnetic Schrödinger operator

 1 Department of Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98105, United States

Received  December 2009 Revised  November 2010 Published  February 2011

In this paper, we prove the global uniqueness of determining both the magnetic field and the electrical potential by boundary measurements in two-dimensional case. In other words, we prove the uniqueness of this inverse problem without any smallness assumption.
Citation: Ru-Yu Lai. Global uniqueness for an inverse problem for the magnetic Schrödinger operator. Inverse Problems & Imaging, 2011, 5 (1) : 59-73. doi: 10.3934/ipi.2011.5.59
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