Moment Theory and Some Inverse Problems in Potential Theory and Heat Conduction

• Main Authors: Ang, Dang D. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Gorenflo, Rudolf (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Le, Vy K. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Trong, Dang D. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2002.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2002.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 1792
• Subjects: Functions of complex variables.; Potential theory (Mathematics).; Partial differential equations.; Integral transforms.; Operational calculus.; Integral equations.; Operator theory.; Functions of a Complex Variable.; Potential Theory.; Partial Differential Equations.; Integral Transforms, Operational Calculus.; Integral Equations.; Operator Theory.
• Physical Description: X, 186 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783540456582
• ISSN: 0075-8434 ;
• DOI: 10.1007/b84019

Moment Theory is not a new subject; however, in classical treatments, the ill-posedness of the problem is not taken into account - hence this monograph. Assuming a "true" solution to be uniquely determined by a sequence of moments (given as integrals) of which only finitely many are inaccurately given, the authors describe and analyze several regularization methods and derive stability estimates. Mathematically, the task often consists in the reconstruction of an analytic or harmonic function, as is natural from concrete applications discussed (e.g. inverse heat conduction problems, Cauchy's problem for the Laplace equation, gravimetry). The book can be used in a graduate or upper undergraduate course in Inverse Problems, or as supplementary reading for a course on Applied Partial Differential Equations.