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Boundary rigidity with partial data

Differential Geometry 2015-10-09 v5 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We study the boundary rigidity problem with partial data consisting of determining locally the Riemannian metric of a Riemannian manifold with boundary from the distance function measured at pairs of points near a fixed point on the boundary. We show that one can recover uniquely and in a stable way a conformal factor near a strictly convex point where we have the information. In particular, this implies that we can determine locally the isotropic sound speed of a medium by measuring the travel times of waves joining points close to a convex point on the boundary. The local results lead to a global lens rigidity uniqueness and stability result assuming that the manifold is foliated by strictly convex hypersurfaces.

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@article{arxiv.1306.2995,
  title  = {Boundary rigidity with partial data},
  author = {Plamen Stefanov and Gunther Uhlmann and Andras Vasy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.2995},
  year   = {2015}
}

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Stability result added in the latest version

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