Travelling times in scattering by obstacles (Q2352856)
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Travelling times in scattering by obstacles (English)
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6 July 2015
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The authors send rays into a Euclidean ball, which bounce off an obstacle inside the ball, or else slide along geodesic segments of the boundary of the obstacle. They presume that the travelling time of almost every such ray is known. They demonstrate that from this data, the geodesic flow of these rays is determined up to a time preserving symplectomorphism, under some genericity hypothesis. They also provide an algorithm to recover the obstacle from the travelling times of such rays. The main tools are theorems published in previous works of the authors.
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inverse scattering
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reflecting ray
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generalised geodesic
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travelling time
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trapped geodesic
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generalised geodesic flow
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