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Reparametrization invariant Sobolev metrics on spaces of regular curves have been shown to be of importance in the field of mathematical shape analysis. For practical applications, one usually discretizes the space of smooth curves and…

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We investigate the existence and uniqueness of solutions for second-order semi-linear partial differential equations defined on a Riemannian manifold $M$. By combining differential geometry and analysis techniques, we establish the…

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The geodesics for a sub-Riemannian metric on a three-dimensional contact manifold $M$ form a 1-parameter family of curves along each contact direction. However, a collection of such contact curves on $M$, locally equivalent to the solutions…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Thomas A. Ivey

For compact Riemannian manifolds with convex boundary, B.White proved the following alternative: Either there is an isoperimetric inequality for minimal hypersurfaces or there exists a closed minimal hypersurface, possibly with a small…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-10-19 Victor Bangert , Nena Roettgen

This paper is concerning the inverse conductive scattering of acoustic waves by a bounded inhomogeneous object with possibly embedded obstacles inside. A new uniqueness theorem is proved that the conductive object is uniquely determined by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Chengyu Wu , Jiaqing Yang

Inverse eigenvalue and singular value problems have been widely discussed for decades. The well-known result is the Weyl-Horn condition, which presents the relations between the eigenvalues and singular values of an arbitrary matrix. This…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-17 Chun-Yueh Chiang , Matthew M. Lin , Xiao-Qing Jin

In this paper, we give some simple counterexamples to uniqueness for the Calderon problem on Riemannian manifolds with boundary when the Dirichlet and Neumann data are measured on disjoint sets of the boundary. We provide counterexamples in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-10-23 Thierry Daudé , Niky Kamran , Francois Nicoleau

This paper is concerned with inverse acoustic source problems in an unbounded domain with dynamical boundary surface data of Dirichlet kind. The measurement data are taken at a surface far away from the source support. We prove uniqueness…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-22 Guanghui Hu , Yavar Kian , Yue Zhao

We study the following problem: given an Einstein metric on a manifold, characterize and study all Einstein metrics which are pointwise projective to the given one. By definition, two metrics are said to be pointwise projectively related if…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Zhongmin Shen

We consider the inverse problem of determining the metric-measure structure of collapsing manifolds from local measurements of spectral data. In the part I of the paper, we proved the uniqueness of the inverse problem and a continuity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-26 Matti Lassas , Jinpeng Lu , Takao Yamaguchi

The isometric embedding problem is a fundamental problem in differential geometry. A longstanding problem is considered in this paper to characterize intrinsic metrics on a two-dimensional Riemannian manifold which can be realized as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-12-25 Gui-Qiang Chen , Marshall Slemrod , Dehua Wang

This paper introduces a new metric and mean on the set of positive semidefinite matrices of fixed-rank. The proposed metric is derived from a well-chosen Riemannian quotient geometry that generalizes the reductive geometry of the positive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-10-21 Silvere Bonnabel , Rodolphe Sepulchre

The isometric embedding problem for Riemannian manifolds, which connects intrinsic and extrinsic geometry, is a central question in differential geometry with deep theoretical significance and wide-ranging applications. Despite extensive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Guangwei Gao , Kaibo Hu , Buyang Li , Ganghui Zhang

In this paper we study an inverse boundary value problem for Maxwell's equations. The goal is to reconstruct perturbations in the refractive index of the medium inside an object from the knowledge of the tangential trace of an electric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-04 Jérémy Heleine

We present a general framework to study uniqueness, stability and reconstruction for infinite-dimensional inverse problems when only a finite-dimensional approximation of the measurements is available. For a large class of inverse problems…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-10 Giovanni S. Alberti , Matteo Santacesaria

This paper presents an overview of recent developments in the analysis of shapes such as curves and surfaces through Riemannian metrics. We show that several constructions of metrics on spaces of submanifolds can be unified through the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-09-19 Martin Bauer , Nicolas Charon , Laurent Younes

In this paper we consider the isentropic compressible Euler equations in two space dimensions together with particular initial data. The latter consists only of two constant states, where one state lies on the lower and the other state on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-09 Christian Klingenberg , Simon Markfelder

On a Riemannian or a semi-Riemannian manifold, the metric determines invariants like the Levi-Civita connection and the Riemann curvature. If the metric becomes degenerate (as in singular semi-Riemannian geometry), these constructions no…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-31 Ovidiu Cristinel Stoica

We consider the nonlinear problem of determining a connection and a Higgs field from the corresponding parallel transport along geodesics on a Riemannian manifold with boundary, in any dimension. The problem can be reduced to an integral…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-18 Hanming Zhou

Let $g$ be a Riemannian metric for $\mathbf{R}^d$ ($d\geq 3$) which differs from the Euclidean metric only in a smooth and strictly convex bounded domain $M$. The lens rigidity problem is concerned with recovering the metric $g$ inside $M$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-02-28 Gang Bao , Hai Zhang