Scattering rigidity with trapped geodesics
Abstract
We prove that the flat product metric on is scattering rigid where is the unit ball in and . The scattering data (loosely speaking) of a Riemannian manifold with boundary is map from unit vectors at the boundary that point inward to unit vectors at the boundary that point outwards. The map (where defined) takes to where is the unit speed geodesic determined by and is the first positive value of (when it exists) such that again lies in the boundary. We show that any other Riemannian manifold with boundary isometric to and with the same scattering data must be isometric to . This is the first scattering rigidity result for a manifold that has a trapped geodesic. The main issue is to show that the unit vectors tangent to trapped geodesics in have measure 0 in the unit tangent bundle.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1103.5511,
title = {Scattering rigidity with trapped geodesics},
author = {Christopher B. Croke},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.5511},
year = {2019}
}
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12 pages, 1 figure