Determination of a Riemannian manifold from the distance difference functions

DOI10.4310/AJM.2019.V23.N2.A1MaRDI QIDQ2000879zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors M. Lassas, Teemu Saksala

Publication date 1 July 2019

Published in The Asian Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.06157

zbMATH Keywords

distance functionsembeddings of manifoldsinverse problemswave equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inverse problems for PDEs (35R30) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80)

Abstract: Let $(N,g)$ be a Riemannian manifold with the distance function $d(x,y)$ and an open subset $MsubsetN$. For $xinM$ we denote by $D_x$ the distance difference function $D_x:FimesFomathbbR$, given by $D_x(z_1,z_2)=d(x,z_1)-d(x,z_2)$, $z_1,z_{2}inF=NsetminusM$. We consider the inverse problem of determining the topological and the differentiable structure of the manifold $M$ and the metric $g{|}_M$ on it when we are given the distance difference data, that is, the set $F$, the metric $g{|}_F$, and the collection $mathcalD(M)=D_x;xinM$. Moreover, we consider the embedded image $mathcalD(M)$ of the manifold $M$, in the vector space $C(FimesF)$, as a representation of manifold $M$. The inverse problem of determining $(M,g)$ from $mathcalD(M)$ arises e.g. in the study of the wave equation on $mathbbRimesN$ when we observe in $F$ the waves produced by spontaneous point sources at unknown points $(t,x)inmathbbRimesM$. Then $D_x(z_1,z_2)$ is the difference of the times when one observes at points $z_1$ and $z_2$ the wave produced by a point source at $x$ that goes off at an unknown time. The problem has applications in hybrid inverse problems and in geophysical imaging.

Review text

Let $(N,g)$ be a Riemannian manifold with the distance function $d(x, y)$ and $M\subset N$ an open subset. For $x\in M$ let $D_x$ be the distance difference function $D_x: F\times F\to \mathbb{R}$, given by $\mathcal{D}_x: (z_1, z_2) = d(x, z_1)-d(x, z_2)$, $z_1, z_2\in F=N\setminus M$. The authors consider the inverse problem of determining the topological and the differentiable structure of the manifold $M$ and the metric $g|_M$ on it for given the distance difference data, that is, the set $F$, the metric $g|_F$, and the collection $\mathcal{D}(M)=\{D_x: x\in M\}$. Moreover, they consider the embedded image $\mathcal{D}(M)$ of the manifold $M$, in the vector space $C(F\times F)$, as a representation of the manifold $M$. The problem has applications in hybrid inverse problems and in geophysical imaging. Hybrid inverse problems are based on coupling two physical models together. In a typical setting of these problems, the first physical system is such that by controlling the boundary values of its solution, one can produce high-amplitude waves, that create, e.g., due to energy absorption, a source for the second physical system. Typically, the second physical system corresponds to a hyperbolic equation.

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