In this paper we consider the problem of estimating the singular support of the Green’s function of the wave equation by using ambient noise signals recorded by passive sensors. We assume that noise sources emit stationary random signals into the medium which are recorded by sensors. We explain how the cross correlation of the signals recorded by two sensors is related to the Green’s function between the sensors. By looking at the singular support of the cross correlation we can obtain an estimate...

In this work we first focus on the Stochastic Galerkin approximation of the solution u of an elliptic stochastic PDE. We rely on sharp estimates for the decay of the coefficients of the spectral expansion of u on orthogonal polynomials to build a sequence of polynomial subspaces that features better convergence properties compared to standard polynomial subspaces such as Total Degree or Tensor Product. We consider then the Stochastic Collocation method, and use the previous estimates to introduce...

We consider a family of nonlinear stochastic heat equations of the form ${\partial }_{t}u=ℒu+\sigma \left(u\right)\dot{W}$, where $\dot{W}$ denotes space–time white noise, $ℒ$ the generator of a symmetric Lévy process on $𝐑$, and $\sigma$ is Lipschitz continuous and zero at 0. We show that this stochastic PDE has a random-field solution for every finite initial measure $u_0$. Tight a priori bounds on the moments of the solution are also obtained. In the particular case that $ℒf=c{f}^{\text{'}\text{'}}$ for some $cgt;0$, we prove that if $u_0$ is a finite measure of compact support, then the solution is...

Dans ce travail, nous considérons un opérateur différentiel simple ainsi que des perturbations. Alors que le spectre de l’opérateur non-perturbé est confiné à une droite à l’intérieur du pseudospectre, nous montrons pour les opérateurs perturbés que les valeurs propres se distribuent à l’intérieur du pseudospectre d’après une loi de Weyl.