Infinite-dimensional Lipschitz stability in the Calderón problem and general Zernike bases

Abstract Calderón’s inverse conductivity problem has, so far, only been subject to conditional logarithmic stability for infinite-dimensional classes of conductivities and to Lipschitz stability when restricted to finite-dimensional classes. Focusing our attention on the unit ball domain in any spatial dimension $$d\ge 2$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>d</mml:mi> <mml:mo>≥</mml:mo> <mml:mn>2</mml:mn> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> , we give an elementary proof that there are (infinitely many) infinite-dimensional classes of conductivities for which there is Lipschitz stability. In particular, Lipschitz stability holds for general expansions of conductivities, allowing all angular frequencies but with limited freedom in the radial direction, if the basis coefficients decay fast enough to overcome the growth of the basis functions near the domain boundary. We construct general d -dimensional Zernike bases and prove that they provide examples of infinite-dimensional Lipschitz stability.