Stability estimates for the inverse fractional conductivity problem

Giovanni Covi, Jesse Railo, Teemu Tyni, Philipp Zimmermann

Published 2022-10-04Version 1

We study the stability of an inverse problem for the fractional conductivity equation on bounded smooth domains. We obtain a logarithmic stability estimate for the inverse problem under suitable a priori bounds on the globally defined conductivities. The argument has three main ingredients: 1. the logarithmic stability of the related inverse problem for the fractional Schr\"odinger equation by R\"uland and Salo; 2. the Lipschitz stability of the exterior determination problem; 3. utilizing and identifying nonlocal analogies of Alessandrini's work on the stability of the classical Calder\'on problem. The main contribution of the article is the resolution of the technical difficulties related to the last mentioned step. Furthermore, we show the optimality of the logarithmic stability estimates, following the earlier works by Mandache on the instability of the inverse conductivity problem, and by R\"uland and Salo on the analogous problem for the fractional Schr\"odinger equation.