Conditional stability estimation for an inverse boundary problem with non-smooth boundary in R3

Transactions of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 353, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 4123-4138

  Cheng, J ^a,d   Hon, Y C ^b   Yamamoto, M ^c  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Conditional stability estimation; Determination of unknown boundary; Non smooth boundary

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044529260     PISSN: 00029947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/s0002-9947-01-02758-1     Document Type: Article

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