Scattering boundary rigidity in the presence of a magnetic field (Q1932340): Difference between revisions

It has been known that under suitable assumptions, a pair of simple domains having the same scattering data are equivalent, and the author shows that the simplicity of a region can be obtained from the metric on the boundary and scattering data. This permits the author to extend the above-mentioned known result to regions having the same scattering data when only one of the regions is known to be simple. This result allows the author to resolve a local version of the following question: ``Are surfaces of constant Gaussian curvature the only surfaces for which all curves of a fixed constant nonzero geodesic curvature are closed?'' In particular, it is shown that a surface of constant curvature cannot be modified while keeping all the curves of some fixed constant geodesic curvatures closed. Contents include: Introduction (which contains an overview of the literature and statements of new results); Magnetic Jacobi fields and conjugate points; The index form; Simple metrics and boundary data; Rigidity for surfaces; References (twenty-seven items).