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We show that on gas giant manifolds the geodesic X-ray transform is solenoidally injective on one-forms that are smooth up to the boundary in an appropriate smooth structure. A gas giant manifold is a conformally blown up Riemannian…
We study the observability of waves on gas giant manifolds which are a class of Riemannian manifolds whose metrics are singular at the boundary. Such manifolds arise naturally in modeling of acoustic wave propagation in gas giant planets.We…
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…
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…
In this survey we review positive inverse spectral and inverse resonant results for the following kinds of problems: Laplacians on bounded domains, Laplace-Beltrami operators on compact manifolds, Schr\"odinger operators, Laplacians on…
Chaplygin gas and other k-essence models exhibit emergent geometry, with perturbations propagating on an acoustic metric disformally related to the Einstein-frame metric. For superluminal sound speed, we identify the disformal metric as the…
We analyze the inverse problem, originally formulated by Dix in geophysics, of reconstructing the wave speed inside a domain from boundary measurements associated with the single scattering of seismic waves. We consider a domain $\tilde M$…
We consider a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary and a metric that is singular at the boundary. The associated Laplace-Beltrami operator is of the form of a Grushin operator plus a singular potential. In a supercritical parameter…
Given a compact manifold with boundary with unknown Riemannian metric. The problem is to reconstruct the metric in a class of conformal metrics from knowledge of lengths of all closed geodesics (kinematic data). An integral inequality is…
Geometric treatments of blow-up solutions for autonomous ordinary differential equations and their blow-up rates are concerned. Our approach focuses on the type of invariant sets at infinity via compactifications of phase spaces, and…
Upper bounds for the eigenvalues of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on a hypersurface bounding a domain in some ambient Riemannian manifold are given in terms of the isoperimetric ratio of the domain. These results are applied to the…
We consider stability and approximate reconstruction of Riemannian manifold when the finite number of eigenvalues of the Laplace-Beltrami operator and the boundary values of the corresponding eigenfunctions are given. The reconstruction can…
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…
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…
The magnetization of bodies in static fields is a textbook topic in electrodynamics, governed by Laplace equations with interface continuity (transmission) conditions. In the infinite-permeability limit, textbooks emphasize the…
We discuss infinitesimal isometries of the middle surfaces and present some characteristic conditions for a function to be the normal component of an infinitesimal isometry. Our results show that those characteristic conditions depend on…
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…
The article surveys inverse problems related to the twisted geodesic flows on Riemannian manifolds with boundary, focusing on the generalized ray transforms, tensor tomography, and rigidity problems. The twisted geodesic flow generalizes…
We consider a smooth Riemannian metric tensor $g$ on $\R^n$ and study the stochastic wave equation for the Laplace-Beltrami operator $\p_t^2 u - \Delta_g u = F$. Here, $F=F(t,x,\omega)$ is a random source that has white noise distribution…
Assume that $M$ is a compact Riemannian manifold of bounded geometry given by restrictions on its diameter, Ricci curvature and injectivity radius. Assume we are given, with some error, the first eigenvalues of the Laplacian $\Delta_g$ on…