Recovering nonsmooth coefficients for higher-order perturbations of a polyharmonic operator
Abstract We consider an inverse problem for a higher order elliptic operator where the principal part is the 
polyharmonic operator $(-\Delta)^m$ with $ m \geq 2$. We show that the map from the coefficients to a 
certain bilinear form is injective. We have a particular focus on obtaining these results under lower
regularity on the coefficients. It is known that knowledge of this bilinear form is equivalent to a knowledge of 
a Dirichlet to Neumann map or the Cauchy data for solutions.
Authors
- R. M. Brown (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4186-0747)
- Daniel Faraco (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7860-9500)
Institutions
- University of Kentucky (US)
- Carthage College (US)
- Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (ES)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Inverse Problems
- Published
- 2026-05-27
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6420/ae73ac
- Primary Topic
- Differential Equations and Boundary Problems
- Type
- preprint
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Simons Foundation
- Comunidad de Madrid
- European Research Council
- Agencia Estatal de Investigación