Determination of a Riemannian manifold from the distance difference functions

DOI10.4310/AJM.2019.V23.N2.A1zbMATH Open1419.53038arXiv1510.06157OpenAlexW2964127850WikidataQ115206018 ScholiaQ115206018MaRDI QIDQ2000879FDOQ2000879

Authors: M. Lassas, Teemu Saksala 

Publication date: 1 July 2019

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

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.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

inverse problemswave equationdistance functionsembeddings of manifolds

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)

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