On the uniqueness theorems for transmission problems related to models of elasticity, diffusion and electrocardiography

Abstract

Abstract We consider a generalization of the inverse problem of the electrocardiography in the framework of the theory of elliptic and parabolic differential operators. More precisely, starting with the standard bidomain mathematical model related to the problem of the reconstruction of the transmembrane potential in the myocardium from known body surface potentials, we formulate a more general transmission problem for elliptic and parabolic equations in the Sobolev type spaces and describe conditions, providing uniqueness theorems for its solutions. Next, the new transmission problem is interpreted in the framework of the elasticity theory applied to composite media. Finally, we prove a uniqueness theorem for an evolutionary transmission problem that can be easily adopted to many models involving the diffusion type equations.