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Reconstruction of Lorentzian manifolds from boundary light observation sets

Differential Geometry 2020-05-28 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

On a time-oriented Lorentzian manifold (M,g)(M,g) with non-empty boundary satisfying a convexity assumption, we show that the topological, differentiable, and conformal structure of suitable subsets SMS\subset M of sources is uniquely determined by measurements of the intersection of future light cones from points in SS with a fixed open subset of the boundary of MM; here, light rays are reflected at M\partial M according to Snell's law. Our proof is constructive, and allows for interior conjugate points as well as multiply reflected and self-intersecting light cones.

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@article{arxiv.1705.01215,
  title  = {Reconstruction of Lorentzian manifolds from boundary light observation sets},
  author = {Peter Hintz and Gunther Uhlmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.01215},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

34 pages, 11 figures. v2 is the published version, with typos fixed