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The Euler characteristic of a surface from its Fourier analysis in one direction

Geometric Topology 2014-09-15 v2 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

In this paper, we prove that we can recover the genus of a closed compact surface SS in R3\mathbb{R}^3 from the restriction to a generic line of the Fourier transform of the canonical measure carried by SS. We also show that the restriction on some line in Minkowski space of the solution of a linear wave equation whose Cauchy data comes from the canonical measure carried by SS, allows to recover the Euler characteristic of SS.

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@article{arxiv.1408.1115,
  title  = {The Euler characteristic of a surface from its Fourier analysis in one direction},
  author = {Nguyen Viet Dang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.1115},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

Section 3 entirely rewritten, appendix made shorter, formula (8) in Theorem 2.1 for $\chi(S)$ in the older version had wrong sign now corrected, new results related to the Radon transform added