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June 2018, 12(3): 733-743. doi: 10.3934/ipi.2018031

Uniqueness on recovery of piecewise constant conductivity and inner core with one measurement

Xiaoping Fang ^1, and Youjun Deng ^2,,

1.	School of Mathematics and Statistics, Hunan University of Commerce, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
2.	School of Mathematics and Statistics, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

* Corresponding author: Youjun Deng, dengyijun_001@163.com

Received September 2017 Revised November 2017 Published March 2018

Fund Project: The work is supported by NSF grant of China No. 11601528, NSF grant of Hunan No. 2017JJ3432 and No. 2018JJ3622, Innovation-Driven Project of Central South University, No. 2018CX041, Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences Project of Central South University, Major Project for National Natural Science Foundation of China(71790615).

We consider the recovery of piecewise constant conductivity and an unknown inner core in inverse conductivity problem. We first show the unique recovery of the conductivity in a one layer structure without inner core by one measurement on any surface enclosing the unknown medium. Then we recover the unknown inner core in a one layer structure. We then show that in a two layer structure, the conductivity can be uniquely recovered by using one measurement.

Keywords: Inverse medium problem, uniqueness, layer potential, transmission condition, unique continuation.

Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35J05, 35R30; Secondary: 31B10.

Citation: Xiaoping Fang, Youjun Deng. Uniqueness on recovery of piecewise constant conductivity and inner core with one measurement. Inverse Problems and Imaging, 2018, 12 (3) : 733-743. doi: 10.3934/ipi.2018031

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[4]	H. Ammari and H. Kang, Polarization and Moment Tensors With Applications to Inverse Problems and Effective Medium Theory, Applied Mathematical Sciences, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
[5]	H. Ammari, H. Kang, H. Lee and M. Lim, Enhancement of near cloaking using generalized polarization tensors vanishing structures. Part Ⅰ: The conductivity problem, Comm. Math. Phys., 317 (2013), 253-266. doi: 10.1007/s00220-012-1615-8.
[6]	H. Ammari, H. Kang, H. Lee and M. Lim, Enhancement of near cloaking. Part Ⅱ: The Helmholtz equation, Comm. Math. Phys., 317 (2013), 485-502. doi: 10.1007/s00220-012-1620-y.
[7]	H. Ammari, H. Kang, H. Lee, M. Lim and Y. Sanghyeon, Enhancement of near cloaking for the full Maxwell equations, SIAM J. Appl. Math., 73 (2013), 2055-2076. doi: 10.1137/120903610.
[8]	B. Barceló, E. Fabes and J. K. Seo, The inverse conductivity problem with one measurement: Uniqueness for convex polyhedra, Proc. Am. Math. Soc., 122 (1994), 183-189. doi: 10.1090/S0002-9939-1994-1195476-6.
[9]	E. Blåsten and H. Liu, Recovering piecewise constant refractive indices by a single far-field pattern, preprint, arXiv: 1705.00815
[10]	D. Colton and B. D. Sleeman, Uniqueness theorems for the inverse problem of acoustic scattering, IMA J. Appl. Math., 31 (1983), 253-259. doi: 10.1093/imamat/31.3.253.
[11]	Y. Deng, X. Fang and J. Li, Plasmon resonance and heat generation in nanostructures, Math. Method Appl. Sci., 38 (2015), 4663-4672. doi: 10.1002/mma.3448.
[12]	L. Escauriaza, E. B. Fabes and G. Verchota, On a regularity theorem for weak solutions to transmission problems with internal Lipschitz boundaries, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., 115 (1992), 1069-1076. doi: 10.1090/S0002-9939-1992-1092919-1.
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[15]	V. Isakov, Inverse Problems for Partial Differential Equations, Springer, New York, 1998.
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[22]	H. Liu and J. Zou, Uniqueness in an inverse acoustic obstacle scattering problem for both sound-hard and sound-soft polyhedral scatterers, Inverse Problems, 22 (2006), 515-524. doi: 10.1088/0266-5611/22/2/008.
[23]	J. K. Seo, A uniqueness result on inverse conductivity problem with two measurements, J. Fourier Anal. Appl., 2 (1996), 227-235.
[24]	J. Sylvester and G. Uhlmann, A global uniqueness theorem for an inverse boundary value problem, Ann. of Math., 125 (1987), 153-169. doi: 10.2307/1971291.
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[27]	G. Uhlmann, Developments in inverse problems since Calderón's foundational paper, Harmonic Analysis and Partial Differential Equations, M. Christ, C. Kenig and C. Sadosky, eds., University of Chicago Press, (1999), 295-345.

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