Abstract:
We consider the problem of simultaneously determining coefficients of a second order nonlinear parabolic equation and a solution to this equation. The unknown coefficients occur in the main part and in the nonlinear summand as well. The overdetermination conditions are conditions of the Dirichlet type on a family of planes of arbitrary dimension. It is demonstrated that the problem in question is solvable locally in time in Hölder spaces. When the unknown functions enter the right-hand side and the equation is linear, the theorem of global unique existence (in time) is established.
Keywords:inverse problem, overdetermination condition, parabolic equation of second order, initial-boundary value problem.