On the interconnections between the metric and the curvature in a Riemannian space (Q1386573)

It is known that a Riemannian metric determines the Riemannian curvature tensor. The authors consider the problem: determine the Riemannian metric \(g_{ij}\) in a domain \(D_n= \{x\mid x= (x_1, x_2, \dots, x_n) \in {\mathbb R}^n\), \(0< x_i <1\), \(i= 1, \dots, n \}, n\geq 2\), having some information on the metric on a part of the boundary of the domain \(D_n\), about components of the corresponding Riemannian curvature tensor and the Gaussian curvature. They formulate the following problems: Problem 1. In the domain \(D_2\), determine the metric \[ ds^2= e^{2\lambda (u,v)} (du^2+ dv^2), x_1= u, x_2= v, \tag{1} \] i.e., the function \(\lambda \) if the functions \(\lambda \) and \(\lambda_u \) are known at \(u= 0\): \[ \lambda, \lambda_u|_{u= 0}= \lambda^{(0)}(v), \lambda^{(1)}(v).\tag{2} \] Problem 2. In the domain \(D_2\), determine metric (1) and its Gaussian curvature dependent only on the variable \(u\) if (2) is valid for the function \(\lambda \) and additional information of the form \[ \lambda |_{v= 0}= \lambda^{(2)} (u) \] is known. Problem 3. In the domain \(D_n\), determine the metric \(g_{ij}(x)\) written in semigeodesic coordinates if \(R_{i_{0}i_{0}\lambda }^k, \lambda, k= 1, \dots, n\), and \[ g_{ij}|_{x_{i_0}= 0}= g_0, {\partial \over \partial x_{i_0}} g_{ij}|_{x_{i_0}= 0}= g_1 \] are given. In this case, \(x_{i_0}\) is the length \(s\) of an arc of each of the coordinate lines \(x_i= \) const., \(i= 1, \dots, n, i\not= i_0\) that are geodesics orthogonal to all hyperplanes \(x_{i_0} =\) const. The following results are obtained. Theorem 1. Problem 1 can have only one solution on the set \(M= \{\lambda (u, v)\mid \lambda \geq \Lambda_0 >0, \lambda \in C^2(\overline {D}_2)\},\Lambda_0 \) being a positive number. Theorem 2. Problem 2 can have only one solution such that \(\lambda \in M \;C^3(\overline {D}_2), K(u) \in C^1[0, 1]\). Theorem 4. Problem 3 can have only one solution on the set \(C^2(\overline{D}_n)\). In Theorem 3 a particular unique solution for Problem 2 is studied and in Theorem 5 a particular unique solution for Problem 3 is investigated.