3IECL - Institut Élie Cartan de Lorraine (Université de Lorraine, Boulevard des Aiguillettes BP 70239 54506 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy Cedex
Ile du Saulcy - 57 045 Metz Cedex 01 - France)
Abstract : We are concerned with the problem of determining the damping boundary coefficient appearing in a dissipative wave equation from a single boundary measurement. We prove that uniqueness holds at the origin provided that the initial condition is appropriately chosen. We show that the choice of the initial condition leading to uniqueness is related to a fine version of the unique continuation property for elliptic operators. We also establish a Lipschitz directional stability estimate at the origin, which is obtained by a linearization process.