Behavior of null-geodesics in the interior of Reissner-Nordstrom black hole

We show that an incoming null-geodesic belonging to a plane passing through the origin and starting outside the outer horizon crosses the outer and the inner horizons. Then it turns at some point inside the inner horizon and approaches the inner horizon when the time tends to the infinity. We also construct a geometric optics solution of the Reissner-Nordstrom equation that has support in a neighborhood of the null-geodesic.Comment: Cases of the extremal and naked singularity Reissner-Norstrom black holes are adde

Inverse problems for the Schrodinger equations with time-dependent electromagnetic potentials and the Aharonov-Bohm effect

We consider the inverse boundary value problem for the Schrodinger operator with time-dependent electromagnetic potentials in domains with obstacles. We extend the resuls of the author's works [E1], [E2], [E3] to the case of time-dependent potentials. We relate our results to the Aharonov-Bohm effect caused by magnetic and electric fluxes.Comment: 26 page

Superradiance initiated inside the ergoregion

We consider the stationary metrics that have both the black hole and the ergoregion. The class of such metric contains, in particular, the Kerr metric. We study the Cauchy problem with highly oscillatory initial data supported in a neighborhood inside the ergoregion with some initial energy $E_0$. We prove that when the time variable $x_0$ increases this solution splits into two parts: one with the negative energy $-E_1$ ending at the event horizon in a finite time, and the second part, with the energy $E_2=E_0+E_1>E_0$, escaping, under some conditions, to the infinity when $x_0\rightarrow +\infty$. Thus we get the superradiance phenomenon. In the case of the Kerr metric the superradiance phenomenon is "short-lived", since both the solutions with positive and negative energies cross the outer event horizon in a finite time (modulo $O(\frac{1}{k})$) where $k$ is a large parameter. We show that these solutions end on the singularity ring in a finite time. We study also the case of naked singularity.Comment: 35 pages, 2 figure

Inverse problems for general second order hyperbolic equations with time-dependent coefficients

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 of the time-dependent Lorentzian metric by the boundary measurements. This is achieved by the adaptation of a variant of the Boundary Control method developed by the author in [E1], [E2].Comment: Corrections suggested by the referee are made, Bull. Math. Sci. (2017

On the non-abelian Radon transform

We consider the inverse problem of the recovery of the gauge field in R^2 modulo gauge transformations from the non-abelian Radon transform.A global uniqueness theorem is proven for the case when the gauge field has a compact support.Comment: 25 page

A simple approach to temporal cloaking

In recent years a remarkable progress was made in the construction of spatial cloaks using the methods of transformation optics and metamaterials. The temporal cloaking, i.e. the cloaking of an event in spacetime, was also widely studied by using transformations on spacetime domains. We propose a simple and general method for the construction of temporal cloaking using the change of time variables only.Comment: 12 pages, 1 figur

Artificial black holes

We study black holes for the linear hyperbolic equations describing the wave propagation in the moving medium. Such black holes are called artificial since the Lorentz metric associated with the hyperbolic equation does not necessary satisfies the Einstein equations. Artificial black holes also arise when we consider perturbations of the Einstein equations. In this paper we review author's results of [E2] and [E3] on the existence and the stability of black holes for the stationary wave equations in two space dimensions, and in the axisymmetric case.Comment: Journal-ref: Contemporary Mathematics, Volume 535, 43-53 (2011

Nonstationary analogue black holes

We study the existence of analogue nonstationary spherically symmetric black holes. The prime example is the acoustic model (cf. [V], [U]). We consider also a more general class of metrics that could be useful in other physical models of analogue black and white holes. We give examples of the appearance of black holes and of disappearance of white holes. We also discuss the relation between the apparent and the event horizons for the case of analogue black holes. In the end we study the inverse problem of determination of black or white holes by boundary measurements for the spherically symmetric nonstationary metrics

Inverse hyperbolic problems with time-dependent coefficients

We consider the inverse problem for the second order self-adjoint hyperbolic equation in a bounded domain in $\R^n$ with lower order terms depending analytically on the time variable. We prove that, assuming the BLR condition, the time-dependent Dirichlet-to-Neumann operator prescribed on a part of the boundary uniquely determines the coefficients of the hyperbolic equation up to a diffeomorphism and a gauge transformation. As a by-product we prove a similar result for the nonself-adjoint hyperbolic operator with time-independent coefficients.Comment: The main change is the use of BLR-condition to fill the gap in the proof of the main theore

Aharonov-Bohm effect revisited

Aharonov-Bohm effect is a quantum mechanical phenomenon that attracted the attention of many physicists and mathematicians since the publication of the seminal paper of Aharonov and Bohm [1] in 1959. We consider different types of Aharonov-Bohm effect such as magnetic AB effect, electric AB effect, combined electromagnetic AB effect, AB effect for the Schr\"odinger equations with Yang-Mills potentials, and the gravitational analog of AB effect. We shall describe different approaches to prove the AB effect based on the inverse scattering problems, the inverse boundary value problems in the presence of obstacles, spectral asymptotics, and the direct proofs of the AB effect.Comment: This article is an expended version of arXiv:1007.3979. Note the change of the titl