Reconstruction of Lorentzian manifolds from boundary light observation sets
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On a time-oriented Lorentzian manifold (M, g) with non-empty boundary satisfying a convexity assumption, we show that the topological, differentiable, and conformal structure of suitable subsets S ⊂ M of sources is uniquely determined by measurements of the intersection of future light cones from points in S with a fixed open subset of the boundary of M ; here, light rays are reflected at ∂M according to Snell’s law. Our proof is constructive, and allows for interior conjugate points as well as multiply reflected and self-intersecting light cones.
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تاریخ انتشار 2017