Uniqueness for the inverse Schr\"odinger problem in the plane with $L^p$ potentials, $p>1$

Abstract

Let $\Omega\subset\mathbb R^2$ be a bounded smooth domain. We prove that the weak Dirichlet-to-Neumann map for $-\Delta+V$ uniquely determines every complex-valued potential $V\in L^p(\Omega)$, $p>1$, provided that zero is not a Dirichlet eigenvalue. This extends the previously known range $p>4/3$ to all $p>1$. The proof uses Bukhgeim's quadratic-phase solutions and an average of Alessandrini's identity over the phase center. After separating the Neumann-series tails, we show that each remaining Born term tends to zero. The fixed-order estimates combine bounds for the absolute kernels with oscillatory cancellation and a duality argument for the product of the two Cauchy transforms.