Various stability estimates for the problem of determining an initial heat distribution from a single measurement

TL;DR

This paper investigates the stability of determining initial heat distributions from single measurements, linking it to Dirichlet series recovery, and provides new stability estimates especially in one-dimensional cases.

Contribution

It establishes new stability estimates for the inverse heat problem using Dirichlet series analysis, improving and extending existing results in one and higher dimensions.

Findings

Derived Hölder and logarithmic stability estimates.

Connected inverse heat problem to Dirichlet series recovery.

Enhanced results for internal and boundary measurements in higher dimensions.

Abstract

We consider the problem of determining the initial heat distribution in the heat equation from a point measurement. We show that this inverse problem is naturally related to the one of recovering the coefficients of Dirichlet series from its sum. Taking the advantage of existing literature on Dirichlet series, in connection with M{\"u}ntz 's theorem, we establish various stability estimates of H{\"o}lder and logarithmic type. These stability estimates are then used to derive the corresponding ones for the original inverse problem, mainly in the case of one space dimension. In higher space dimensions, we are interested to an internal or a boundary measurement. This issue is closely related to the problem of observability arising in Control Theory. We complete and improve the existing results.