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Algorithms for the computation of the forward and inverse geodesic problems for an ellipsoid of revolution are derived. These are accurate to better than 15 nm when applied to the terrestrial ellipsoids. The solutions of other problems…

Geophysics · Physics 2015-03-18 Charles F. F. Karney

In this article we introduce an approach for studying the geodesic X-ray transform and related geometric inverse problems by using Carleman estimates. The main result states that on compact negatively curved manifolds (resp. nonpositively…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-29 Gabriel P. Paternain , Mikko Salo

In this paper we prove two results. The first shows that the Dirichlet-Neumann map of the operator $\Delta_g+q$ on a Riemannian surface can determine its topological, differential, and metric structure. Earlier work of this type assumes a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-26 Cătălin I. Cârstea , Tony Liimatainen , Leo Tzou

Consider a broken geodesics $\alpha([0,l])$ on a compact Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ with boundary of dimension $n\geq 3$. The broken geodesics are unions of two geodesics with the property that they have a common end point. Assume that for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yaroslav Kurylev , Matti Lassas , Gunther Uhlmann

In this paper we solve the fractional anisotropic Calder\'on problem on closed Riemannian manifolds of dimensions two and higher. Specifically, we prove that the knowledge of the local source-to-solution map for the fractional Laplacian,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-10 Ali Feizmohammadi , Tuhin Ghosh , Katya Krupchyk , Gunther Uhlmann

In this article we study the linearized anisotropic Calder\'on problem on a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary. This problem amounts to showing that products of pairs of harmonic functions of the manifold form a complete set. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-15 Katya Krupchyk , Tony Liimatainen , Mikko Salo

We consider the inverse problem of determining a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary from fixed time observations of the solution, restricted to a small subset in space, for the Navier-Stokes system with a local source on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Yavar Kian , Lauri Oksanen , Ziyao Zhao

This is a survey on eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on Riemannian manifolds (mainly compact and without boundary). We discuss both local results obtained by analyzing eigenfunctions on small balls, and global results obtained by wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-03-23 Steve Zelditch

In this paper, we study the relation between geodesic and harmonic mappings. Harmonic mappings are defined between Riemannian manifolds as critical points of the energy functional, on the other hand, geodesic mappings are defined in a more…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-11-01 Stanislav Hronek

We introduce a new approach to the anisotropic Calder\'on problem, based on a map called Poisson embedding that identifies the points of a Riemannian manifold with distributions on its boundary. We give a new uniqueness result for a large…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-05 Matti Lassas , Tony Liimatainen , Mikko Salo

We study inverse boundary problems for semilinear Schr\"odinger equations on smooth compact Riemannian manifolds of dimensions $\ge 2$ with smooth boundary, at a large fixed frequency. We show that certain classes of cubic nonlinearities…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Katya Krupchyk , Shiqi Ma , Suman Kumar Sahoo , Mikko Salo , Simon St-Amant

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-02 Dmitri Burago , Sergei Ivanov , Matti Lassas , Jinpeng Lu

We introduce a method for solving Calder\'on type inverse problems for semilinear equations with power type nonlinearities. The method is based on higher order linearizations, and it allows one to solve inverse problems for certain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-01 Matti Lassas , Tony Liimatainen , Yi-Hsuan Lin , Mikko Salo

We consider the problem of developing a method to reconstruct a potential $q$ from the partial data Dirichlet-to-Neumann map for the Schr\"odinger equation $(-\Delta_g+q)u=0$ on a fixed admissible manifold $(M,g)$. If the part of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-11 Yernat M Assylbekov

This PhD thesis studies the broken ray transform, a generalization of the geodesic X-ray transform where geodesics are replaced with broken rays that reflect on a part of the boundary. The fundamental question is whether this transform is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-29 Joonas Ilmavirta

We address the problem of fitting parametric curves on the Grassmann manifold for the purpose of intrinsic parametric regression. As customary in the literature, we start from the energy minimization formulation of linear least-squares in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-15 Yi Hong , Nikhil Singh , Roland Kwitt , Nuno Vasconcelos , Marc Niethammer

We study an analog of the anisotropic Calder\'on problem for fractional Schr\"odinger operators $(-\Delta_g)^\alpha + V$ with $\alpha \in (0,1)$ on closed Riemannian manifolds of dimensions two and higher. We prove that the knowledge of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-25 Ali Feizmohammadi , Katya Krupchyk , Gunther Uhlmann

We consider Calder\'{o}n's inverse boundary value problems for a class of nonlinear Helmholtz Schr\"{o}dinger equations and Maxwell's equations in a bounded domain in $\R^n$. The main method is the higher-order linearization of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-01 Xuezhu Lu

We investigate inverse problems in the determination of leading coefficients for nonlocal parabolic operators, by knowing the corresponding Cauchy data in the exterior space-time domain. The key contribution is that we reduce nonlocal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-14 Ching-Lung Lin , Yi-Hsuan Lin , Gunther Uhlmann

This article presents an overview of robot learning and adaptive control applications that can benefit from a joint use of Riemannian geometry and probabilistic representations. The roles of Riemannian manifolds, geodesics and parallel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Sylvain Calinon