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On the inverse gravimetry problem with minimal data

  • Victor Isakov and Aseel Titi EMAIL logo
Published/Copyright: October 22, 2022

Abstract

The inverse problem in gravimetry is to find a domain đ· inside the reference domain Ω from measurements of gravitational force outside Ω. We consider the problem in three dimensions where we found that a few parameters of the unknown đ· can be stably determined given data noise in practical situations. An ellipsoid is the best approximation of đ·. We prove uniqueness of recovering an ellipsoid in a particular case for the inverse problem from minimal amount of data which are the approximated gravitational force at nine boundary points. In the proofs, we derive and use simple systems of linear and nonlinear algebraic equations for the parameters of an ellipsoid. Similarly, a rectangular parallelepiped đ· is considered. To support our theory, we use numerical examples with different location of measurements points on ∂ ⁥ Ω .

MSC 2010: 35R30; 31A25; 86A22

Award Identifier / Grant number: DMS 20-08154

Funding statement: This research is supported in part by the Emylou Keith and Betty Dutcher Distinguished Professorship and the NSF grant DMS 20-08154.

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Received: 2021-05-29
Accepted: 2022-07-17
Published Online: 2022-10-22
Published in Print: 2022-12-01

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