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The Calder\'on problem for connections

Analysis of PDEs 2017-10-10 v2 Differential Geometry

Abstract

In this paper we consider the problem of identifying a connection \nabla on a vector bundle up to gauge equivalence from the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map of the connection Laplacian \nabla^*\nabla over conformally transversally anisotropic (CTA) manifolds. This was proved in \cite{LCW} for line bundles in the case of the transversal manifold being simple -- we generalise this result to the case where the transversal manifold only has an injective ray transform. Moreover, the construction of suitable Gaussian beam solutions on vector bundles is given for the case of the connection Laplacian and a potential, following the works of \cite{CTA}. This in turn enables us to construct the Complex Geometrical Optics (CGO) solutions and prove our main uniqueness result. We also reduce the problem to a new non-abelian X-ray transform for the case of simple transversal manifolds and higher rank vector bundles. Finally, we prove the recovery of a flat connection in general from the DN map, up to gauge equivalence, using an argument relating the Cauchy data of the connection Laplacian and the holonomy.

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@article{arxiv.1610.02985,
  title  = {The Calder\'on problem for connections},
  author = {Mihajlo Cekić},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.02985},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

v1: 43 pages, 2 figures; v2: 48 pages, 3 figures. Unchanged results, revised: reduction to the non-abelian ray transform in Chapter 4, proof of Theorem 6.2 (partial data). Improved overall quality of presentation

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