On the light ray transform of wave equation solutions

DOI10.1007/S00220-021-04045-7MaRDI QIDQ2025635zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors András Vasy, Yiran Wang

Publication date 14 May 2021

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.02848

zbMATH Keywords

inverse problemLorentzian manifoldwave equationMinkowski metriclight ray transform

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Wave equation (35L05) Inverse problems for PDEs (35R30) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Perturbations of PDEs on manifolds; asymptotics (58J37) Hyperbolic equations on manifolds (58J45) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: We study the light ray transform on Minkowski space-time and its small metric perturbations acting on scalar functions which are solutions to wave equations. We show that the light ray transform uniquely determines the function in a stable way. The problem is of particular interest because of its connection to inverse problems of the Sachs-Wolfe effect in cosmology.

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