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Inverse problems for the Bakry-\'Emery Laplacian on manifolds with boundary -- uniqueness and non-uniqueness

Analysis of PDEs 2025-04-03 v2

Abstract

We study the questions of uniqueness and non-uniqueness for a pair of closely related inverse problems for the Bakry-\'Emery Laplacian ΔE-\Delta_{\mathcal E} on a smooth compact and oriented Riemannian manifold with boundary (M,g)(\overline{M},g), endowed with a volume form m=eVωg\mathfrak{m}=e^{-V}\omega_g. These consist in recovering the Taylor coefficients of metric gg and weight VV along the boundary of M\overline{M} from the knowledge of a pair of operators that can be viewed as geometrically natural Dirichlet-to-Neumann maps associated to ΔE-\Delta_{\mathcal E}.

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@article{arxiv.2503.21944,
  title  = {Inverse problems for the Bakry-\'Emery Laplacian on manifolds with boundary -- uniqueness and non-uniqueness},
  author = {Jack Borthwick and Niky Kamran},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.21944},
  year   = {2025}
}