Recovery of the C ^ jet from the boundary distance function

DOI10.1007/S10711-011-9679-8zbMATH Open1251.53026arXiv1103.5509OpenAlexW2473468643MaRDI QIDQ715196FDOQ715196

Authors: Xiaochen Zhou 

Publication date: 2 November 2012

Published in: Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary, we want to find the metric structure from knowledge of distances between boundary points. This is called the "boundary rigidity problem". If the boundary is not concave, which means locally not all shortest paths lie entirely in the boundary, then we are able to find the Taylor series of the metric tensor ($C^{i}nfty$ jet) at the boundary. In this paper we give a new reconstruction procedure for the jet at non-concave points on the boundary using the localized boundary distance function. A closely related problem is the "lens rigidity problem", which asks whether the lens data determine metric structure uniquely. Lens data include information of boundary distance function, the lengths of all geodesics, and the locations and directions where geodesics hit the boundary. We give the first examples that show that lens data cannot uniquely determine the jet. The example include two manifolds with the same boundary and the same lens data, but different $C^2$ jets. With some additional careful work, we can find examples with different $C^1$ jets, which means the boundaries in the two lens-equivalent manifolds have different second fundamental forms.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.5509

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zbMATH Keywords

boundary rigidityLens rigidity\(C ^\infty\) jet

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local Riemannian geometry (53B20) Rigidity results (53C24)

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