Carleman Estimate for a Stationary Isotropic Lamé System and the Applications

For the isotropic stationary Lamé system with variable coefficients equipped with Dirichlet or surface stress boundary condition, we obtain a Carleman estimate such that (i) the right hand side is estimated in a weighted L2-space and (ii) the estimate includes nonhomogeneous surface displacement or surface stress. Using this estimate we establish the conditional stability in Sobolev’s norm of the displacement by means of measurements in an arbitrary subdomain or measurements of surface displacement and stress on an arbitrary subboundary. Finally by the Carleman estimate, we prove the uniqueness and conditional stability for an inverse problem of determining a source term by a single interior measurement. §