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 with non-empty boundary satisfying a convexity assumption, we show that the topological, differentiable, and conformal structure of suitable subsets of sources is uniquely determined by measurements of the intersection of future light cones from points in with a fixed open subset of the boundary of ; here, light rays are reflected at 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