Abstract

In this Note, we prove a Carleman's estimate for the integro-differential hyperbolic system of the viscoelasticity problem and we use this estimate to obtain a stability result for the inverse problem of recovering a viscoelastic coefficient from a unique internal measure. To cite this article: M. de Buhan, A. Osses, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Ser. I 347 (2009). © 2009 Académie des sciences.