On the number of invisible directions for a smooth Riemannian metric

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2014.08.005zbMATH Open1304.53026arXiv1305.2736OpenAlexW1984792948WikidataQ115353129 ScholiaQ115353129MaRDI QIDQ478600FDOQ478600

Authors: Misha Bialy 

Publication date: 3 December 2014

Published in: Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this note we give a construction of a smooth Riemannian metric on R^n which is standard Euclidean outside a compact set K and such that it has N = n(n + 1)=2 invisible directions, meaning that all geodesics lines passing through the set K in these directions remain the same straight lines on exit. For example in the plane our construction gives three invisible directions. This is in contrast with billiard type obstacles where a very sophisticated example due to A.Plakhov and V.Roshchina gives 2 invisible directions in the plane and 3 in the space. We use reflection group of the root system An in order to make the directions of the roots invisible.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1305.2736

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zbMATH Keywords

lens rigidityinvisible directionsLagrangian graphs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22)

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