# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

March  2015, 5(1): 177-189. doi: 10.3934/mcrf.2015.5.177

## Inverse problems for the fourth order Schrödinger equation on a finite domain

 1 School of Mathematics, Laboratory of Mathematics and Complex Systems, Beijing Normal University, 100875 Beijing, China

Received  April 2014 Revised  September 2014 Published  January 2015

In this paper we establish a global Carleman estimate for the fourth order Schrödinger equation with potential posed on a $1-d$ finite domain. The Carleman estimate is used to prove the Lipschitz stability for an inverse problem consisting in recovering a stationary potential in the Schrödinger equation from boundary measurements.
Citation: Chuang Zheng. Inverse problems for the fourth order Schrödinger equation on a finite domain. Mathematical Control & Related Fields, 2015, 5 (1) : 177-189. doi: 10.3934/mcrf.2015.5.177
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