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Inverse initial data reconstruction for a memory convection-diffusion equation via Legendre spatial reduction and Tikhonov regularization

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Pith's one-line read Legendre spatial reduction combined with Tikhonov regularization recovers the initial condition from final-time data for a memory convection-diffusion equation.

desk verdict Standard Legendre reduction plus Tikhonov for a memory PDE inverse problem; convergence proof holds only under an external parameter choice. read the letter →

arxiv 2606.20875 v1 pith:FEB3PUAL submitted 2026-06-18 math.NA cs.NA

Cong B. Van , Thien P.B. Nguyen , Minh-Binh Tran , Loc H. Nguyen This is my paper · ORCID
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The paper targets the inverse problem of recovering the unknown initial state of a convection-diffusion equation that includes a nonlocal memory term from observations at the final time. The backward problem is severely ill-posed. Uniqueness is established for spatially constant coefficients by Fourier analysis that reduces the question to an analytic Volterra equation. For variable coefficients the authors replace the original PDE by a finite tensor-product Legendre expansion in space, which converts the inverse problem into a finite-dimensional terminal-value system; this reduced system is then solved by Tikhonov regularization with an H-squared penalty. For any fixed truncation order the regularized solutions are shown to converge to the minimum-norm solution of the reduced system once the noise level and the regularization parameter both tend to zero under a suitable linking rule.

What carries the argument

Finite tensor-product Legendre expansion in space that reduces the inverse problem to a terminal-value system for time-dependent coefficients, solved by Tikhonov-regularized least squares with an H^2 penalty.

What would settle it

A concrete sequence of noisy final-time data and corresponding regularization parameters, both tending to zero, for which the regularized Legendre-coefficient vectors fail to approach the minimum-norm solution of the reduced system at a fixed truncation order.

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Core claim

For a fixed truncation order, the Tikhonov-regularized minimizers converge to the finite-dimensional minimum-norm solution as the noise level and the regularization parameter vanish, under a suitable choice of the regularization parameter.

Load-bearing premise

A regularization parameter can be chosen that vanishes with the noise level in a way that does not require knowledge of the exact solution.

Editorial extensions

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  • Uniqueness of the initial datum holds when coefficients are independent of space, proved via Fourier transform and analytic continuation of a scalar Volterra equation.
  • The original infinite-dimensional ill-posed problem is replaced by a finite-dimensional, computable least-squares problem whose regularized solutions converge under the stated parameter rule.
  • Two-dimensional numerical tests confirm that the reduced regularized reconstructions remain stable for moderate noise levels.
  • The memory term is retained exactly inside the reduced system of ordinary differential equations for the Legendre coefficients.

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Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Separate analysis of the truncation error is needed before the method can be applied to data with arbitrarily fine spatial features.
  • The same reduction-plus-regularization pattern may apply directly to other linear parabolic equations that contain nonlocal time operators.
  • Practical implementation would still require an a-posteriori rule such as the discrepancy principle to select the regularization parameter from data alone.
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Summary. The paper studies an inverse initial-data problem for a convection-diffusion equation with memory term. For spatially constant coefficients it proves uniqueness via Fourier transform reducing the problem to a scalar Volterra equation whose analyticity yields uniqueness. For variable coefficients it introduces a Legendre-Galerkin spatial reduction that converts the PDE inverse problem into a finite-dimensional terminal-value ODE system for the coefficient vector; this reduced problem is solved by Tikhonov regularization with an H² penalty. The central theoretical result states that, for any fixed truncation order N, the regularized minimizers converge to the minimum-norm solution of the finite-dimensional problem as the noise level δ and the regularization parameter α both tend to zero, provided α is chosen suitably (i.e., α→0 and δ²/α→0). Two-dimensional numerical illustrations are presented.

Significance. If the convergence statement can be made constructive, the combination of exact spatial reduction with a provably convergent regularization scheme would supply a theoretically supported numerical method for a class of severely ill-posed inverse problems that include memory. The explicit reduction to a finite terminal-value system and the convergence proof for that reduced system are genuine strengths; the numerical examples provide at least preliminary evidence of practical behavior.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract / convergence theorem] Abstract and convergence statement: the claim that the regularized minimizers converge to the finite-dimensional minimum-norm solution 'under a suitable choice of the regularization parameter' is load-bearing for the method, yet the manuscript gives no indication that an a-posteriori rule (discrepancy principle, balancing principle, etc.) is derived or that the proof supplies a constructive selection of α(δ) independent of the unknown solution. The standard source-condition argument requires α→0 and δ²/α→0, both of which remain external to the data.
  2. [Legendre spatial reduction section] Reduction step: the passage from the original memory PDE to the finite tensor-product Legendre system for the time-dependent coefficients must preserve the memory integral exactly; any truncation or quadrature error introduced at this stage would propagate into the subsequent Tikhonov analysis. The manuscript should state explicitly whether the memory term is discretized exactly or approximated and, if the latter, quantify the additional consistency error.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract states that uniqueness holds 'in a spatially independent coefficient setting' but does not clarify whether the same Fourier-Volterra argument extends, even formally, to the variable-coefficient case before the numerical reduction is applied.
  2. [Notation / preliminaries] Notation for the memory kernel and the precise form of the H² penalty should be introduced once and used consistently; several symbols appear only in the abstract and are not redefined in the main text.

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We thank the referee for the careful reading and for highlighting both the strengths of the spatial reduction and the limitations of the convergence result. We respond to each major comment below.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract / convergence theorem] Abstract and convergence statement: the claim that the regularized minimizers converge to the finite-dimensional minimum-norm solution 'under a suitable choice of the regularization parameter' is load-bearing for the method, yet the manuscript gives no indication that an a-posteriori rule (discrepancy principle, balancing principle, etc.) is derived or that the proof supplies a constructive selection of α(δ) independent of the unknown solution. The standard source-condition argument requires α→0 and δ²/α→0, both of which remain external to the data.

    Authors: We agree that the convergence theorem is stated under the external conditions α→0 and δ²/α→0 and that no a-posteriori selection rule is derived or analyzed in the manuscript. The result therefore remains non-constructive with respect to practical parameter choice. In the revision we will modify the abstract and the theorem statement to make this assumption explicit and will add a short remark in the conclusions noting that discrepancy-principle or balancing-principle rules could be considered in applications, while acknowledging that their rigorous justification would require additional source conditions not treated here. revision: partial

  2. Referee: [Legendre spatial reduction section] Reduction step: the passage from the original memory PDE to the finite tensor-product Legendre system for the time-dependent coefficients must preserve the memory integral exactly; any truncation or quadrature error introduced at this stage would propagate into the subsequent Tikhonov analysis. The manuscript should state explicitly whether the memory term is discretized exactly or approximated and, if the latter, quantify the additional consistency error.

    Authors: The reduction is obtained by applying the orthogonal projection onto the tensor-product Legendre space directly to the entire PDE, including the memory integral. Because the projection is linear, the memory term is transferred exactly into the finite-dimensional system; no truncation or quadrature approximation is introduced at the reduction stage. The resulting terminal-value ODE system is therefore the exact Galerkin projection of the original problem. We will insert an explicit clarifying paragraph in the Legendre spatial reduction section stating that the memory integral is preserved exactly and that no additional consistency error arises from the reduction itself. revision: yes

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full rationale

Uniqueness is established via external Fourier transform plus analyticity of a scalar Volterra equation. The convergence statement is a standard Tikhonov result proved directly on the explicitly constructed finite-dimensional reduced system after Legendre truncation; it does not reduce by the paper's own equations to any fitted quantity, self-citation chain, or ansatz smuggled from prior work. The a-priori parameter choice is external and does not create a definitional loop. No load-bearing self-citations or renamings appear in the derivation chain.

Assumptions & free parameters 2 free parameters · 2 assumptions · 0 invented entities

Claims rest on standard Fourier analysis, completeness of Legendre polynomials, and the structural property that the memory term permits reduction to a scalar Volterra equation in the constant-coefficient case. The truncation order and regularization parameter are the principal free parameters; no new entities are postulated.

free parameters (2)
  • truncation order
    Fixed finite order of the tensor-product Legendre expansion that defines the reduced finite-dimensional terminal-value system.
  • regularization parameter
    Chosen to vanish with noise level to obtain convergence of the Tikhonov minimizers to the minimum-norm solution.
assumptions (2)
  • domain assumption Fourier transform converts the PDE into a scalar Volterra equation whose solution is analytic
    Invoked for uniqueness in the spatially independent coefficient setting.
  • standard math Legendre polynomials form a complete orthogonal basis allowing exact spatial reduction for the chosen truncation
    Used to obtain the finite tensor-product expansion and the reduced time-dependent coefficient system.

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abstract

We study an inverse initial data problem for a convection-diffusion equation with memory, where the goal is to recover the unknown initial condition from final-time data. The model includes convection, an instantaneous Laplacian term, and a nonlocal-in-time memory term involving the Laplacian of the past states, which leads to a severely ill-posed backward problem. We prove uniqueness in a spatially independent coefficient setting by applying the Fourier transform and using an analyticity argument for a scalar Volterra equation. For the variable-coefficient case, we develop a computational method based on Legendre spatial dimensional reduction and Tikhonov regularization. The solution is approximated by a finite tensor-product Legendre expansion, thereby reducing the inverse problem to a finite-dimensional terminal-value system for the time-dependent coefficients. We solve the reduced problem by a Tikhonov-regularized least-squares method with an $H^2$ penalty. For a fixed truncation order, we prove that the regularized minimizers converge to the finite-dimensional minimum-norm solution as the noise level and the regularization parameter vanish, under a suitable choice of the regularization parameter. Some two-dimensional numerical examples are presented to illustrate the performance of the proposed method.

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Figure 1. Test 1. Reconstruction results with 10% and 20% noise in the terminal data. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Test 2. Reconstruction results with 10% and 20% noise in the terminal data. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Test 3. Reconstruction results with 5% and 10% noise in the terminal data. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Test 4. Reconstruction results with 10% and 20% noise in the terminal data. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_4.png]

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