Reconstruction of Lorentzian manifolds from boundary light observation sets
Hintz, Peter ; Uhlmann, Gunther
arXiv, 1705.01215 / Harvested from arXiv
On a time-oriented Lorentzian manifold $(M,g)$ with non-empty boundary satisfying a convexity assumption, we show that the topological, differentiable, and conformal structure of suitable subsets $S\subset M$ of sources is uniquely determined by measurements of the intersection of future light cones from points in $S$ with a fixed open subset of the boundary of $M$; here, light rays are reflected at $\partial M$ according to Snell's law. Our proof is constructive, and allows for interior conjugate points as well as multiply reflected and self-intersecting light cones.
Publié le : 2017-05-02
Classification:  Mathematics - Differential Geometry,  Mathematical Physics,  35C50 (Primary), 35L05, 35L20, 58J47 (Secondary)
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     journal = {arXiv},
     volume = {2017},
     number = {0},
     year = {2017},
     language = {en},
     url = {http://dml.mathdoc.fr/item/1705.01215}
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Hintz, Peter; Uhlmann, Gunther. Reconstruction of Lorentzian manifolds from boundary light observation
  sets. arXiv, Tome 2017 (2017) no. 0, . http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/1705.01215/