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We study the questions of uniqueness and non-uniqueness for a pair of closely related inverse problems for the Bakry-\'Emery Laplacian $-\Delta_{\mathcal E}$ on a smooth compact and oriented Riemannian manifold with boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-03 Jack Borthwick , Niky Kamran

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

In this article we deal with a class of geometric inverse problem for bottom detection by one single measurement on the free surface in water--waves. We found upper and lower bounds for the size of the region enclosed between two different…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-02 R. Lecaros , J. López-Ríos , J. H. Ortega , S. Zamorano

We consider an inverse problem for a Westervelt type nonlinear wave equation with fractional damping. This equation arises in nonlinear acoustic imaging, and we show the forward problem is locally well-posed. We prove that the smooth…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-01 Li Li , Yang Zhang

Motivated by considerations of euclidean quantum gravity, we investigate a central question of spectral geometry, namely the question of reconstructability of compact Riemannian manifolds from the spectra of their Laplace operators. To this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-12-01 Mikhail Panine , Achim Kempf

We consider the problem of recovering the Riemannian metric on a compact closed manifold from the optimal transport maps when the underlying cost function is the squared Riemann distance. We show that the metric can be uniquely determined…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Jian Zhai , Kelvin Shuangjian Zhang

Consider the geometric inverse problem: There is a set of delta-sources in spacetime that emit waves travelling at unit speed. If we know all the arrival times at the boundary cylinder of the spacetime, can we reconstruct the space, a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-09 Maarten V. de Hoop , Joonas Ilmavirta , Matti Lassas , Teemu Saksala

This paper is concerned with analysis of electromagnetic wave scattering by an obstacle which is embedded in a two-layered lossy medium separated by an unbounded rough surface. Given a dipole point source, the direct problem is to determine…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Peijun Li , Jue Wang , Lei Zhang

In this short note, we prove that a bi-invariant Riemannian metric on $\mathrm{Sp}(n)$ is uniquely determined by the spectrum of its Laplace-Beltrami operator within the class of left-invariant metrics on $\mathrm{Sp}(n)$. In other words,…

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We consider the inverse problem of recovering a potential from the Dirichlet to Neumann map at a large fixed frequency on certain Riemannian manifolds. We extend the earlier result of [G. Uhlmann and Y. Wang, arXiv:2104.03477] to the case…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-01 Shiqi Ma , Suman Kumar Sahoo , Mikko Salo

We consider a restricted Dirichlet-to-Neumann map associated to a wave type operator on a Riemannian manifold with boundary. The restriction corresponds to the case where the Dirichlet traces are supported on one subset of the boundary and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-15 Yavar Kian , Yaroslav Kurylev , Matti Lassas , Lauri Oksanen

In this paper, we establish positive results for two spectral inverse problems in the presence of a magnetic potential. Exploiting the principal wave trace invariants, we first observe that on closed Anosov manifolds with simple length…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-12 David dos Santos Ferreira , Benjamin Florentin

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…

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In Gel'fand's inverse problem, one aims to determine the topology, differential structure and Riemannian metric of a compact manifold $M$ with boundary from the knowledge of the boundary $\partial M,$ the Neumann eigenvalues $\lambda_j$ and…

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We study the Lorentzian Calder\'on problem, where the objective is to determine a globally hyperbolic Lorentzian metric up to a boundary fixing diffeomorphism from boundary measurements given by the hyperbolic Dirichlet-to-Neumann map. This…

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In this paper, we study an inverse boundary value problem for the Jordan--Moore--Gibson--Thompson equation on a simple Riemannian manifold. We consider an all boundary measurement map that maps Dirichlet boundary data and initial data to…

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This paper is concerned with an inverse wavenumber/frequency-dependent source problem for the Helmholtz equation. In two and three dimensions, the unknown source term is supposed to be compactly supported in spatial variables but…

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Consider a real-analytic orientable connected complete Riemannian manifold $M$ with boundary of dimension $n\ge 2$ and let $k$ be an integer $1\le k\le n$. In the case when $M$ is compact of dimension $n\ge 3$, we show that the manifold and…

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We study the inverse resonance problem for conformally compact manifolds which are hyperbolic outside a compact set. Our results include compactness of isoresonant metrics in dimension two and of isophasal negatively curved metrics in…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2010-06-25 D. Borthwick , P. A. Perry

We consider the inverse problem of determining the density coefficient appearing in the wave equation from separated point source and point receiver data. Under some assumptions on the coefficients, we prove uniqueness results.

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