The problem of determining the memory of an environment with weak horizontal heterogeneity

Abstract

The problem of determining the convolutional kernel $k(t,x)$, $t>0$, $x \in {\Bbb R}$, included in a hyperbolic integro-differential equation of the second order, is investigated in a domain bounded by a variable $z$ and having weakly horizontal heterogeneity. It is assumed that this kernel weakly depends on the variable $x$ and decomposes into a power series by degrees of a small parameter $\varepsilon$. A method for finding the first two coefficients $k_{0}(t)$, $k_{1}(t)$ of this expansion is constructed according to the given first two moments in the variable $x$ of the solution of the direct problem at $z=0$.