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Time Separation and Scattering Rigidity for Analytic Lorentzian Manifolds

Differential Geometry 2025-11-04 v1

Abstract

In this work, we prove the following three rigidity results: (i) in a real-analytic globally hyperbolic spacetime (M,g)(M,g) without boundary, the time separation function restricted to a thin exterior layer of a unknown compact subset KMK \subset M determines KK up to an analytic isometry, assuming no lightlike cut points in KK; (ii) in a real-analytic globally hyperbolic spacetime (M,g)(M,g) with timelike boundary, the boundary time separation function determines MM up to an analytic isometry, assuming no lightlike cut points near MM and lightlike geodesics are non-trapping; (iii) in a real-analytic Lorentzian manifold (M,g)(M,g) with timelike boundary, the interior and complete scattering relations near the light cone, each determines MM up to an analytic isometry, assuming that lightlike geodesics are non-trapping. We emphasize in all of these three cases we do not assume the convexity of the boundary of the subset or the manifold. Moreover, in (iii) we do not assume causality of the Lorentzian manifold, and allow the existence of cut points. Along the way, we also prove some boundary determination results, the connections between the interior and complete scattering relations, and the connections between the lens data and the scattering relation, for Riemannian manifolds and Lorentzian manifolds with boundaries.

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@article{arxiv.2511.00832,
  title  = {Time Separation and Scattering Rigidity for Analytic Lorentzian Manifolds},
  author = {Yuchao Yi and Yang Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.00832},
  year   = {2025}
}

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58 pages, 7 figures

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