Reconstructing a magnetic field from boundary measurements

Mikko Salo
University of Helsinki, Finland


Date: March 8, 2005

We consider the inverse problem of recovering a magnetic field and electric potential from boundary measurements related to the stationary magnetic Schrödinger operator. The boundary measurements are given by the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map.

This will be the first of two talks. In the first talk I will discuss weighted parameter-dependent $ L^2$ estimates for the magnetic Schrödinger operator. The proof of the estimates is based on semiclassical pseudodifferential calculus. In the second talk in April I will discuss how to use these estimates to construct exponentially growing solutions to the magnetic Schrödinger equation, and how to use the solutions to reconstruct the magnetic field by inverting a certain nonlinear Fourier transform.