Stability and regularization of a discrete approximation to the Cauchy problem for Laplace's equation

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 890-905

  Reinhardt, Hans Jürgen ^a   Han, Houde ^b   Hào, Dinh Nho ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Cauchy problem; Ill posed; Laplace's equation; Logarithmic convexity; Regularization; Stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001189418     PISSN: 00361429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036142997316955     Document Type: Article

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