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In this paper, a problem of identifying possibly discontinuous diffusion coefficients in parabolic equations is considered. General theorems on existence are proved inL 1 setting. A necessary condition is given for the solution of the parameter estimation problem.
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Liu, Z. On the identification of coefficients of semilinear parabolic equations. Acta Mathematicae Applicatae Sinica 10, 356–367 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02016326
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