A "milder" version of Calder\'on's inverse problem for anisotropic conductivities and partial data

TL;DR

This paper investigates a relaxed version of Calderón's inverse problem for anisotropic conductivities with partial boundary data, establishing conditions under which two operators are unitarily equivalent based on their partial Dirichlet-to-Neumann maps.

Contribution

It extends the inverse problem results to bounded measurable coefficients and various boundary conditions, providing a new proof approach.

Findings

Proves positivity, $L^p$-estimates, and domination properties for the associated semigroup.

Shows that partial D-t-N operator equality implies unitary equivalence of the operators.

Extends previous results to less regular coefficients and different boundary conditions.

Abstract

Given a general symmetric elliptic operator $$ L\_{a} := \sum\_{k,,j=1}^d \p\_k (a\_{kj} \p\_j) + \sum\_{k=1}^d a\_k \p\_k - \p\_k(\overline{a\_k} .) + a\_0$$we define the associated Dirichlet-to-Neumann (D-t-N) operator with partial data, i.e., data supported in a part of the boundary. We prove positivity, $L^p$-estimates and domination properties for the semigroup associated with this D-t-N operator. Given $L\_a $ and $L\_b$ of the previous type with bounded measurable coefficients $a = \{a\_{kj}, \ a\_k, a\_0 \}$ and $b = \{b\_{kj}, \ b\_k, b\_0 \}$, we prove that if their partial D-t-N operators (with $a\_0$ and $b\_0$ replaced by $a\_0 -\la$ and $b\_0 -\la$) coincide for all $\la$, then the operators $L\_a$ and $L\_b$, endowed with Dirichlet, mixed or Robin boundary conditions are unitary equivalent. In the case of the Dirichlet boundary conditions, this result was proved recently by Behrndt and Rohleder \cite{BR12} for Lipschitz continuous coefficients. We provide a different proof which works for bounded measurable coefficients and other boundary conditions.