5 Convexification for ill-posed Cauchy problems for quasi-linear PDEs

2021 ◽  
pp. 93-120
2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mourad Choulli ◽  
Masahiro Yamamoto

AbstractUniqueness of parabolic Cauchy problems is nowadays a classical problem and since Hadamard [Lectures on Cauchy’s Problem in Linear Partial Differential Equations, Dover, New York, 1953], these kind of problems are known to be ill-posed and even severely ill-posed. Until now, there are only few partial results concerning the quantification of the stability of parabolic Cauchy problems. We bring in the present work an answer to this issue for smooth solutions under the minimal condition that the domain is Lipschitz.


Linear-regularization methods provide a simple technique for deter­mining stable approximate solutions of linear ill-posed problems such as Fredholm equations of the first kind, Cauchy problems for elliptic equations and backward solution of forward parabolic equations. In most of these problems the solution must be positive to satisfy physical plausibility. In this paper we consider ill-posed first-kind convolution equations and related problems such as numerical differentiation, Radon transform and Laplace-transform inversion. We investigate several linear regularization algorithms which provide positive approximate solutions for these problems at least in the absence of errors on the data. For noisy data the solution is not necessarily positive. Because the appearance of negative values can then only be an effect of the noise, the negative part of the solution should be negligible with a suitable choice of the regularization parameter. A price to pay for ensuring positivity is always, however, a reduction in resolution.


2005 ◽  
Vol 133 (10) ◽  
pp. 3005-3012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongzhong Huang ◽  
Quan Zheng
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