Mixed variational approach to finding guaranteed estimates from   solutions and right-hand sides of the second-order linear elliptic equations   under incomplete data
  We investigate the problem of guaranteed estimation of values of linear continuous functionals defined on solutions to mixed variational equations generated by linear elliptic problems from indirect noisy observations of these solutions. We assume that right-hand sides of the equations, as well as the second moments of noises in observations are not known; the only available information is that they belong to given bounded sets in the appropriate functional spaces. We look for linear with respect to observations optimal estimates of solutions of aforementioned equations called minimax or guaranteed estimates. We develop constructive methods for finding these estimates and estimation errors which are expressed in terms of solutions to special mixed variational equations and prove that Galerkin approximations of the obtained variational equations converge to their exact solutions.   We study also the problem of guaranteed estimation of right-hand sides of mixed variational equations. 
Yuri Podlipenko, Yury Shestopalov
math.AP