English

Local lens rigidity with incomplete data for a class of non-simple Riemannian manifolds

Differential Geometry 2007-05-23 v1 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

Let σ\sigma be the scattering relation on a compact Riemannian manifold MM with non-necessarily convex boundary, that maps initial points of geodesic rays on the boundary and initial directions to the outgoing point on the boundary and the outgoing direction. Let \ell be the length of that geodesic ray. We study the question of whether the metric gg is uniquely determined, up to an isometry, by knowledge of σ\sigma and \ell restricted on some subset DD. We allow possible conjugate points but we assume that the conormal bundle of the geodesics issued from DD covers TMT^*M; and that those geodesics have no conjugate points. Under an additional topological assumption, we prove that σ\sigma and \ell restricted to DD uniquely recover an isometric copy of gg locally near generic metrics, and in particular, near real analytic ones.

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@article{arxiv.math/0701595,
  title  = {Local lens rigidity with incomplete data for a class of non-simple Riemannian manifolds},
  author = {Plamen Stefanov and Gunther Uhlmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0701595},
  year   = {2007}
}