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In this note we concern with the wave maps from the Lorentzian manifold with the periodic in time metric into the Riemannian manifold, which belongs to the one-parameter family of Riemannian manifolds. That family contains as a special case…

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This brief note wants to bring to attention that the formulation of physically reasonable initial-boundary value problems for wave equations in Lorentzian space-times is not unique, i.e., that there are inequivalent such formulations that…

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We consider inverse problems for wave, heat and Schr\"odinger-type operators and corresponding spectral problems on domains of ${\bf R}^n$ and compact manifolds. Also, we study inverse problems where coefficients of partial differential…

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We study the inverse problem for a semilinear wave equation on metric tree graphs. From the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map defined at all but one of the boundary vertices, we recover unknown connectivity of the graph, lengths of the edges, the…

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We consider a strongly damped wave equation on compact manifolds, both with and without boundaries, and formulate the corresponding inverse problems. For closed manifolds, we prove that the metric can be uniquely determined, up to an…

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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…

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We approach the problem of finding obstructions to curvature distinguished Riemannian metrics by considering Lorentzian metrics to which they are dual in a suitable sense. Obstructions to the latter then yield obstructions to the former.…

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