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We show that on a closed Riemannian manifold with fundamental group isomorphic to $\mathbb{Z}$, other than the circle, every isometry that is homotopic to the identity possesses infinitely many invariant geodesics. This completes a recent…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-27 Leonardo Macarini , Marco Mazzucchelli

A minimal geodesic on a Riemannian manifold is a geodesic defined on $\mathbb{R}$ that lifts to a globally distance minimizing curve on the universal covering. Bangert proved that there is a lower bound for the number of geometrically…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-12 Bernd Ammann , Clara Loeh

Scattering rigidity of a Riemannian manifold allows one to tell the metric of a manifold with boundary by looking at the directions of geodesics at the boundary. Lens rigidity allows one to tell the metric of a manifold with boundary from…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-08-12 Haomin Wen

Given a Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ and a geodesic $\gamma$, the perpendicular part of the derivative of the geodesic flow $\phi_g^t: SM \rightarrow SM$ along $\gamma$ is a linear symplectic map. We give an elementary proof of the following…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-12-04 Daniel Visscher

We consider how a closed Riemannian manifold $M$ and its metric tensor $g$ can be approximately reconstructed from local distance measurements. Moreover, we consider an inverse problem of determining $(M,g)$ from limited knowledge on the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-30 Charles Fefferman , Sergei Ivanov , Matti Lassas , Jinpeng Lu , Hariharan Narayanan

In this paper, we establish two sharp quantitative results for the direct and inverse time-harmonic acoustic wave scattering. The first one is concerned with the recovery of the support of an inhomogeneous medium, independent of its…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-07 Emilia L. K. Blåsten , Hongyu Liu

We study the geometry of geodesics on $\mathsf{SL}(n)$, equipped with the Hilbert-Schmidt metric which makes it a Riemannian manifold. These geodesics are known to be related to affine motions of incompressible ideal fluids. The $n = 2$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-24 Audrey Rosevear , Samuel Sottile , Willie WY Wong

We study the inverse problem of determining both the source of a wave and its speed inside a medium from measurements of the solution of the wave equation on the boundary. This problem arises in photoacoustic and thermoacoustic tomography,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-18 Christina Knox , Amir Moradifam

We consider a linearized inverse scattering problem for elastic waves. We prove that a fully anisotropic perturbation of the elastic parameters around an isotropic and homogeneous reference can be uniquely determined by (single-)scattered…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Matti Lassas , Shiqi Ma , Lauri Oksanen , Mikko Salo , Jian Zhai

This is a continuation of the research in [16]. Let $(\overline{M},g_{-1})$ be a closed geodesic $r_0$-ball in the hyperbolic space $(\mathbb{H}^n,g_{-1})$. Let $m\neq1$ be a positive constant. In this paper, we show that for $n\geq3$,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Gang Li

Given a fixed $\alpha \in (0,1)$, we study the inverse problem of recovering the isometry class of a smooth closed and connected Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$, given the knowledge of a source-to-solution map for the fractional Laplace…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-29 Ali Feizmohammadi

We are concerned with the inverse scattering problem of recovering an inhomogeneous medium by the associated acoustic wave measurement. We prove that under certain assumptions, a single far-field pattern determines the values of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Emilia Blåsten , Hongyu Liu

In this paper we analyze the problem of the geodesic connectedness of subsets of Riemannian manifolds. By using variational methods, the geodesic connectedness of open domains (whose boundaries can be not differentiable and not convex) of a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-01-21 Rossella Bartolo , Anna Germinario , Miguel Sanchez

We provide a full characterization of geodesic completeness for spaces of configurations of landmarks with smooth Riemannian metrics that satisfy a rotational and translation invariance and which are induced from metrics on subgroups of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Karen Habermann , Stephen C. Preston , Stefan Sommer

In this paper we consider the inverse electromagnetic scattering for a cavity surrounded by an inhomogeneous medium in three dimensions. The measurements are scattered wave fields measured on some surface inside the cavity, where such…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-10 Fang Zeng , Shixu Meng

We prove that a closed negatively curved analytic Riemannian manifold that contains infinitely many totally geodesic hypersurfaces is isometric to an arithmetic hyperbolic manifold. Equivalently, any closed analytic Riemannian manifold with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Simion Filip , David Fisher , Ben Lowe

A Riemannian manifold is said to be uniformly secure if there is a finite number $s$ such that all geodesics connecting an arbitrary pair of points in the manifold can be blocked by $s$ point obstacles. We prove that the number of geodesics…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2010-12-14 Keith Burns , Eugene Gutkin

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-07-07 Katsiaryna Krupchyk , Matti Lassas , Gunther Uhlmann

After giving a general introduction to the main known results on the anisotropic Calder{\'o}n problem on n-dimensional compact Riemannian manifolds with boundary, we give a motivated review of some recent non-uniqueness results obtained in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-05 Thierry Daudé , Niky Kamran , François Nicoleau

A geodesic orbit manifold is a complete Riemannian manifold all of whose geodesics are orbits of one-parameter groups of isometries. We give both a geometric and an algebraic characterization of geodesic orbit manifolds that are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-08 Carolyn S. Gordon , Yuriĭ G. Nikonorov