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We consider the problem of localizing an inaccessible piece $I$ of the boundary of a conducting medium $\Omega$, and a cavity $D$ contained in $\Omega$, from boundary measurements on the accessible part $A$ of $\partial \Omega$. Assuming that $g(t,\sigma )$ is the given thermal flux for $\left(t,\sigma \right)\in (0,T)\times A$, and that the corresponding output datum is the temperature $u(T_0,\sigma )$ measured at a given time $T_0$ for $\sigma \in A_{\mathrm{out}}\subset A$, we prove that $I$ and $D$ are uniquely localized from knowledge of all possible pairs of input-output data $(g,u{\left(T_0\right)}_{\mid A_{\mathrm{out}}})$. The same result holds when a mean value of the temperature...

We consider the problem of localizing an inaccessible piece of the boundary of a conducting medium Ω, and a cavity contained in Ω, from boundary measurements on the accessible part of ∂Ω. Assuming that is the given thermal flux for (,σ) ∈ (0,) x A, and that the corresponding output datum is the temperature ,σ) measured at a given time for σ ∈ ⊂ , we prove that and are uniquely localized from knowledge of all possible pairs of input-output...

For a bounded and sufficiently smooth domain $\mathrm{\Omega }$ in ${\mathbb{R}}^N$, $N\ge 2$, let ${\left({\lambda }_k\right)}_{k=1}^{\mathrm{\infty }}$ and ${\left({\phi }_k\right)}_{k=1}^{\mathrm{\infty }}$ be respectively the eigenvalues and the corresponding eigenfunctions of the problem (with Neumann boundary conditions) $$-\text{div}\left(a\left(x\right)\nabla {\phi }_k\right)+q\left(x\right){\phi }_k={\lambda }_k\varrho \left(x\right){\phi }_k\text{ in }\mathrm{\Omega },a\frac{\partial }{\partial \mathbf{n}}{\phi }_k=0\text{ su }\partial \mathrm{\Omega }.$$ We prove that knowledge of the Dirichlet boundary spectral data ${\left({\lambda }_k\right)}_{k=1}^{\mathrm{\infty }}$, ${\left({\phi }_{k|\partial \mathrm{\Omega }}\right)}_{k=1}^{\mathrm{\infty }}$ determines uniquely the Neumann-to-Dirichlet (or the Steklov- Poincaré) map $\gamma$ for a related elliptic problem. Under suitable hypothesis on the coefficients $a,q,\varrho$ their identifiability is then proved. We prove also analogous results for Dirichlet...