The Lorentzian scattering rigidity problem and rigidity of stationary metrics

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Main Author: Stefanov, Plamen
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author Stefanov, Plamen
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contents We study scattering rigidity in Lorentzian geometry: recovery of a Lorentzian metric from the scattering relation $\mathcal{S}^\sharp$ known on a lateral boundary. We show that, under a non-conjugacy assumption, every defining function $r(x,y)$ of pairs of boundary points which can be connected by a lightlike geodesic plays the role of the boundary distance function in the Riemannian case in the following sense. Its linearization is the light ray transform of tensor fields of order two which are the perturbations of the metric. Next, we study scattering rigidity of stationary metrics in time-space cylinders and show that it can be reduced to boundary rigidity of magnetic systems on the base; a problem studied previously. This implies several scattering rigidity results for stationary metrics.
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spellingShingle The Lorentzian scattering rigidity problem and rigidity of stationary metrics
Stefanov, Plamen
Differential Geometry
Analysis of PDEs
53C24, 53C50, 35R30
We study scattering rigidity in Lorentzian geometry: recovery of a Lorentzian metric from the scattering relation $\mathcal{S}^\sharp$ known on a lateral boundary. We show that, under a non-conjugacy assumption, every defining function $r(x,y)$ of pairs of boundary points which can be connected by a lightlike geodesic plays the role of the boundary distance function in the Riemannian case in the following sense. Its linearization is the light ray transform of tensor fields of order two which are the perturbations of the metric. Next, we study scattering rigidity of stationary metrics in time-space cylinders and show that it can be reduced to boundary rigidity of magnetic systems on the base; a problem studied previously. This implies several scattering rigidity results for stationary metrics.
title The Lorentzian scattering rigidity problem and rigidity of stationary metrics
topic Differential Geometry
Analysis of PDEs
53C24, 53C50, 35R30
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.13213