Stability estimate for hyperbolic inverse problem with time dependent coefficient

Abstract

We study the stability in the inverse problem of determining the time dependent zeroth-order coefficient $q(t,x)$ arising in the wave equation, from boundary observations. We derive, in dimension $n\geq 2$, a log-type stability estimate in the determination of $q$ from the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map, in a subset of our domain assuming that it is known outside this subset. Moreover, we prove that we can extend this result to the determination of $q$ in a larger region, and then in the whole domain provided that we have much more data.