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We show that an inverse scattering problem for a semilinear wave equation can be solved on a manifold having an asymptotically Minkowskian infinity, that is, scattering functionals determine the topology, differentiable structure, and the…

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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

We consider an inverse problem for a non-linear hyperbolic equation. We show that conformal structure of a Lorentzian manifold can be determined by the source-to-solution map evaluated along a single timelike curve. We use the microlocal…

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We study two inverse problems on a globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifold $(M,g)$. The problems are: 1. Passive observations in spacetime: Consider observations in a neighborhood $V\subset M$ of a time-like geodesic $\mu$. Under natural…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-09-22 Yaroslav Kurylev , Matti Lassas , Gunther Uhlmann

We consider an inverse boundary value problem for a semilinear wave equation on a time-dependent Lorentzian manifold with time-like boundary. The time-dependent coefficients of the nonlinear terms can be recovered in the interior from the…

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We discuss a time-harmonic inverse scattering problem for a nonlinear Helmholtz equation with compactly supported inhomogeneous scattering objects that are described by a nonlinear refractive index in unbounded free space. Assuming the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-14 Roland Griesmaier , Marvin Knöller , Rainer Mandel

This paper recovers Hermitian connections of semi-linear wave equations with cubic nonlinearity. The main novelty is in the geometric generality: we treat the case of an arbitrary globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifold. Our approach is…

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We investigate inverse boundary problems associated with a time-dependent semilinear hyperbolic equation, where both nonlinearity and sources (including initial displacement and initial velocity) are unknown. We establish in several generic…

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We study the scattering rigidity problem in Lorentzian geometry: recovery of a Lorentzian metric from the scattering relation known on a lateral timelike boundary. We show that one can recover the jet of the metric up to a gauge…

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In this article, we study the inverse scattering problem for the nonlinear fractional Helmholtz equation with cubic nonlinearity in three dimensions, where we recover a compactly supported potential from scattering amplitude.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Saumyajit Das , Susovan Pramanik

We construct counterexamples to inverse problems for the wave operator on domains in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$, $n \ge 2$, and on Lorentzian manifolds. We show that non-isometric Lorentzian metrics can lead to same partial data measurements, which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-27 Tony Liimatainen , Lauri Oksanen

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 these lectures I give an introduction to the time-dependent approach to inverse scattering, that has been developed recently. The aim of this approach is to solve various inverse scattering problems with time-dependent methods that…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ricardo Weder

This paper concerns an inverse boundary value problem of recovering a zeroth order time-dependent term of a semi-linear wave equation on a globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifold. We show that an unknown potential $q$ in the non-linear wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Matti Lassas , Tony Liimatainen , Leyter Potenciano-Machado , Teemu Tyni

We study a multidimensional inverse scattering problem under the time-dependent repulsive Hamiltonians of quadratic type. The time-dependent coefficient on the repulsive term decays as the inverse square of time, which is the threshold…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Atsuhide Ishida

The problems we address in this paper are the spectral theory and the inverse problems associated with Laplacians on non-compact Riemannian manifolds and more general manifolds admitting conic singularities. In particular, we study the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-15 Hiroshi Isozaki , Matti Lassas

We consider inverse problems in space-time $(M, g)$, a $4$-dimensional Lorentzian manifold. For semilinear wave equations $\square_g u + H(x, u) = f$, where $\square_g$ denotes the usual Laplace-Beltrami operator, we prove that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-21 Matti Lassas , Gunther Uhlmann , Yiran Wang

In this paper, we focus on the inverse scattering problem for the nonlinear Schrodinger equation with magnetic potentials. Specifically, we investigate whether the scattering operator associated with the nonlinear Schrodinger equation can…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Lei Wei , Hua Huang

The paper introduces a method to solve inverse problems for hyperbolic systems where the leading order terms are non-linear. We apply the method to the coupled Einstein-scalar field equations and study the question whether the structure of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-08 Yaroslav Kurylev , Matti Lassas , Lauri Oksanen , Gunther Uhlmann
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