Abstract
We study an inverse boundary value problem for a polyharmonic operator
in two dimensions. We show that the Cauchy data uniquely determine all the anisotropic perturbations of orders at most
Funding source: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Award Identifier / Grant number: EP/R014604/1
Funding statement: Venkateswaran P. Krishnan would like to thank the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK, for support and hospitality during Rich and Nonlinear Tomography – a multidisciplinary approach in 2023 where part of this work was done (supported by EPSRC Grant Number EP/R014604/1).
Acknowledgements
The authors thank Manas Kar for suggesting this problem and Masaru Ikehata for drawing our attention to the references [14, 15, 16].
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