A Sharp Regularity Threshold for Uniqueness in Riemannian Calder\'on-type Problems
Abstract
We prove a sharp regularity threshold for uniqueness in two anisotropic Calder\'on-type inverse problems in dimension . The main setting is the Riemannian Schr\"odinger problem with fixed scalar potential: for a prescribed nonconstant analytic function , we study whether the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map of on a domain determines the unknown metric . The natural gauge is the group of boundary-fixing diffeomorphisms preserving . We show that, while analytic metrics are uniquely determined modulo this gauge by a minor adaptation of the Lassas--Uhlmann reconstruction theorem, uniqueness fails densely in every non-analytic Gevrey class , . In fact, our counterexamples are not isometric in the sense that they are not connected by the pushforward of any diffeomorphism of . We also prove the analogous sharp threshold for the anisotropic Calder\'on problem at fixed nonzero frequency, thereby upgrading the previously known finite-regularity counterexamples to Gevrey and regularity. The two constructions use different scalar mechanisms: for fixed potentials, the nonconstant potential itself provides a local coordinate, while at nonzero frequency one uses a compactly supported prescribed-Jacobian lemma in Gevrey spaces. Thus analyticity is the exact threshold for uniqueness in both problems.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2605.21705,
title = {A Sharp Regularity Threshold for Uniqueness in Riemannian Calder\'on-type Problems},
author = {Thierry Daudé and Alberto Enciso and Bernard Helffer and Niky Kamran and François Nicoleau},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.21705},
year = {2026}
}