30 research outputs found
A new approach to hyperbolic inverse problems II (Global step)
We study the inverse problem for the second order self-adjoint hyperbolic
equation with the boundary data given on a part of the boundary. This paper is
the continuation of the author's paper [E]. In [E] we presented the crucial
local step of the proof. In this paper we prove the global step. Our method is
a modification of the BC-method with some new ideas. In particular, the way of
the determination of the metric is new.Comment: 21 pages, 2 figure
A new approach to hyperbolic inverse problems
We present a modification of the BC-method in the inverse hyperbolic
problems. The main novelty is the study of the restrictions of the solutions to
the characteristic surfaces instead of the fixed time hyperplanes. The main
result is that the time-dependent Dirichlet-to-Neumann operator prescribed on a
part of the boundary uniquely determines the coefficients of the self-adjoint
hyperbolic operator up to a diffeomorphism and a gauge transformation. In this
paper we prove the crucial local step. The global step of the proof will be
presented in the forthcoming paper.Comment: We corrected the proof of the main Lemma 2.1 by assuming that
potentials A(x),V(x) are real value
Inverse problem for wave equation with sources and observations on disjoint sets
We consider an inverse problem for a hyperbolic partial differential equation
on a compact Riemannian manifold. Assuming that and are
two disjoint open subsets of the boundary of the manifold we define the
restricted Dirichlet-to-Neumann operator . This
operator corresponds the boundary measurements when we have smooth sources
supported on and the fields produced by these sources are observed
on . We show that when and are disjoint but
their closures intersect at least at one point, then the restricted
Dirichlet-to-Neumann operator determines the
Riemannian manifold and the metric on it up to an isometry. In the Euclidian
space, the result yields that an anisotropic wave speed inside a compact body
is determined, up to a natural coordinate transformations, by measurements on
the boundary of the body even when wave sources are kept away from receivers.
Moreover, we show that if we have three arbitrary non-empty open subsets
, and of the boundary, then the restricted
Dirichlet-to-Neumann operators for determine the Riemannian manifold to an isometry. Similar result is proven
also for the finite-time boundary measurements when the hyperbolic equation
satisfies an exact controllability condition
Optical Aharonov-Bohm effect: an inverse hyperbolic problems approach
We describe the general setting for the optical Aharonov-Bohm effect based on
the inverse problem of the identification of the coefficients of the governing
hyperbolic equation by the boundary measurements. We interpret the inverse
problem result as a possibility in principle to detect the optical
Aharonov-Bohm effect by the boundary measurements.Comment: 34 pages. Minor changes, references adde
Multidimensional Borg-Levinson Theorem
We consider the inverse problem of the reconstruction of a Schr\"odinger
operator on a unknown Riemannian manifold or a domain of Euclidean space. The
data used is a part of the boundary and the eigenvalues corresponding
to a set of impedances in the Robin boundary condition which vary on .
The proof is based on the analysis of the behaviour of the eigenfunctions on
the boundary as well as in perturbation theory of eigenvalues. This reduces the
problem to an inverse boundary spectral problem solved by the boundary control
method
Inverse hyperbolic problems and optical black holes
In this paper we give a more geometrical formulation of the main theorem in
[E1] on the inverse problem for the second order hyperbolic equation of general
form with coefficients independent of the time variable. We apply this theorem
to the inverse problem for the equation of the propagation of light in a moving
medium (the Gordon equation). Then we study the existence of black and white
holes for the general hyperbolic and for the Gordon equation and we discuss the
impact of this phenomenon on the inverse problems
Inverse problems for Schrodinger equations with Yang-Mills potentials in domains with obstacles and the Aharonov-Bohm effect
We study the inverse boundary value problems for the Schr\"{o}dinger
equations with Yang-Mills potentials in a bounded domain
containing finite number of smooth obstacles . We
prove that the Dirichlet-to-Neumann operator on determines
the gauge equivalence class of the Yang-Mills potentials. We also prove that
the metric tensor can be recovered up to a diffeomorphism that is identity on
.Comment: 15 page
Inverse Scattering for Gratings and Wave Guides
We consider the problem of unique identification of dielectric coefficients
for gratings and sound speeds for wave guides from scattering data. We prove
that the "propagating modes" given for all frequencies uniquely determine these
coefficients. The gratings may contain conductors as well as dielectrics and
the boundaries of the conductors are also determined by the propagating modes.Comment: 12 page
A Conformally Invariant Holographic Two-Point Function on the Berger Sphere
We apply our previous work on Green's functions for the four-dimensional
quaternionic Taub-NUT manifold to obtain a scalar two-point function on the
homogeneously squashed three-sphere (otherwise known as the Berger sphere),
which lies at its conformal infinity. Using basic notions from conformal
geometry and the theory of boundary value problems, in particular the
Dirichlet-to-Robin operator, we establish that our two-point correlation
function is conformally invariant and corresponds to a boundary operator of
conformal dimension one. It is plausible that the methods we use could have
more general applications in an AdS/CFT context.Comment: 1+49 pages, no figures. v2: Several typos correcte