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We consider solutions to the linear wave equation on non-compact Riemannian manifolds without boundary when the geodesic flow admits a filamentary hyperbolic trapped set. We obtain a polynomial rate of local energy decay with exponent…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-11-19 Hans Christianson

We study an inverse problem of determining a time-dependent potential appearing in the wave equation in conformally transversally anisotropic manifolds of dimension three or higher. These are compact Riemannian manifolds with boundary that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-22 Boya Liu , Teemu Saksala , Lili Yan

This paper is concerned with the resolution of an inverse problem related to the recovery of a scalar (potential) function $V$ from the source to solution map, of the semi-linear equation $(\Box_{g}+V)u+u^3=0$ on a globally hyperbolic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Ali Feizmohammadi , Lauri Oksanen

We consider inverse problems for non-linear hyperbolic and elliptic equations and give an introduction to the method based on the multiple linearization, or on the construction of artificial sources, to solve these problems. The method is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Matti Lassas

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…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-11-20 Horst Reinhard Beyer

We prove that the topology, smooth structure, and metric of a compact Lorentzian manifold with boundary is uniquely determined by data at the boundary. The data consists of the lengths and directions of future-directed once-broken geodesics…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-09-05 Eric Larsson

We show that a partial Dirichlet-to-Neumann map, where the measurement set is arbitrarily small, uniquely determines the time-dependent nonlinearity of order three or higher in a semi-linear wave equation up to natural obstructions on a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-13 Boya Liu , Weinan Wang

The study of low regularity (in-)extendibility of Lorentzian manifolds is motivated by the question whether a given solution to the Einstein equations can be extended (or is maximal) as a weak solution. In this paper we show that a timelike…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-06 Gregory J. Galloway , Eric Ling , Jan Sbierski

We prove boundary controllability results for wave equations (with lower-order terms) on Lorentzian manifolds with time-dependent geometry satisfying suitable curvature bounds. The main ingredient is a novel global Carleman estimate on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-20 Vaibhav Kumar Jena , Arick Shao

We consider real isotropic geodesics on manifolds endowed with a pseudoconformal structure and their applications to the theory of lightlike hypersurfaces on such manifolds, the geometry of four-dimensional conformal structures of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Maks A. Akivis , Vladislav V. Goldberg

We investigate the causal structure of two-sheeted space-times using the tools of Lorentzian spectral triples. We show that the noncommutative geometry of these spaces allows for causal relations between the two sheets. The computation is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Nicolas Franco , Michał Eckstein

We consider an inverse problem for the Boltzmann equation on a globally hyperbolic Lorentzian spacetime $(M,g)$ with an unknown metric $g$. We consider measurements done in a neighbourhood $V\subset M$ of a timelike path $\mu$ that connects…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-29 Tracey Balehowsky , Antti Kujanpää , Matti Lassas , Tony Liimatainen

Within the synthetic-geometric framework of Lorentzian (pre-)length spaces developed in Kunzinger and S\"amann (Ann. Glob. Anal. Geom. 54(3):399--447, 2018) we introduce a notion of a hyperbolic angle, an angle between timelike curves and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Tobias Beran , Clemens Sämann

We study the inverse problems for the second order hyperbolic equations of general form with time-dependent coefficients assuming that the boundary data are given on a part of the boundary. The main result of this paper is the determination…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-07-18 Gregory Eskin

The local classification of conformally flat Lorentzian manifolds with special holonomy groups is obtained. The corresponding local metrics are certain extensions of Riemannian spaces of constant sectional curvature to Walker metrics.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-08-21 Anton S. Galaev

We investigate a generalization of the so-called metric splitting of globally hyperbolic space-times to non-smooth Lorentzian manifolds and show the existence of this metric splitting for a class of wave-type space-times. Our approach is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-06-30 Günther Hörmann , Clemens Sämann

In this paper we consider a semilinear parabolic equation in an infinite cylinder. The spatially varying nonlinearity is such that it connects two (spatially independent) bistable nonlinearities in a compact set in space. We prove that,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-14 Simon Eberle

In this paper we study a Lorentzian version of the Calder\'{o}n problem, which is concerned with the determination of a connection and potential on a Hermitian vector bundle over a Lorentzian manifold from the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Sean Gomes , Lauri Oksanen

Assuming minimal regularity assumptions on the data, we revisit the classical problem of finding isometric immersions into the Minkowski spacetime for hypersurfaces of a Lorentzian manifold. Our approach encompasses metrics having Sobolev…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-12-28 Philippe G. LeFloch , Cristinel Mardare , Sorin Mardare

We study locally conformally homogeneous Lorentzian manifolds of dimension at least $3$, admitting an essential pseudo-group of local conformal transformations. Generalizing a recent result of Alekseevsky and Galaev, we show that any such…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Thomas Leistner , Lilia Mehidi , Abdelghani Zeghib