Inverse source problem in a 3D ball from best meromorphic approximation on 2D slices

Abstract : We show that the inverse monopolar or dipolar source problem in a 3D ball from overdetermined Dirichlet-Neumann data on the boundary sphere reduces to a family of 2D inverse branchpoint problems in cross sections of the sphere, at least when there are finitely many sources. We adapt from [7] an approach to these 2D inverse problem which is based on meromorphic approximation, and we present numerical results.