Quasianalyticity and geometric rigidity in anisotropic Calderón's problem
Abstract
The anisotropic Calderón problem of determining a smooth Riemannian metric from boundary measurements, up to a boundary-fixing diffeomorphism, remains open in dimensions n≥3~\cite{uhlmann2009electrical}. We establish unique identifiability results in two complementary regimes. In the first, the identity principle for quasianalytic functions propagates boundary information and yields unique identifiability on compact manifolds without a prescribed product structure, including a partial-data consequence; under a prescribed normal geometry, quasianalyticity is needed only in the distinguished direction. In the second, suitable symmetry or one-sided ordering assumptions lead to unique identifiability at C∞ regularity with full or restricted boundary access. Taken together, the results exhibit a tradeoff among regularity, geometric structure, and boundary access: quasianalyticity supplies continuation when no global product structure is prescribed, while symmetry or one-sided order replaces that continuation at C∞ regularity.
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BibTeX
@misc{chen2026quasianalyticity,
title = {{Quasianalyticity and geometric rigidity in anisotropic Calderón's problem}},
author = {Lu Chen and Yan Jiang and Hongyu Liu and Longyue Tao},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2608.15813},
eprint = {2608.15813},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.15813},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Quasianalyticity and geometric rigidity in anisotropic Calderón's problem
AU - Lu Chen
AU - Yan Jiang
AU - Hongyu Liu
AU - Longyue Tao
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/24
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2608.15813
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.15813
AB - The anisotropic Calderón problem of determining a smooth Riemannian metric from boundary measurements, up to a boundary-fixing diffeomorphism, remains open in dimensions n≥3~\cite{uhlmann2009electrical}. We establish unique identifiability results in two complementary regimes. In the first, the identity principle for quasianalytic functions propagates boundary information and yields unique identifiability on compact manifolds without a prescribed product structure, including a partial-data consequence; under a prescribed normal geometry, quasianalyticity is needed only in the distinguished direction. In the second, suitable symmetry or one-sided ordering assumptions lead to unique identifiability at C^∞ regularity with full or restricted boundary access. Taken together, the results exhibit a tradeoff among regularity, geometric structure, and boundary access: quasianalyticity supplies continuation when no global product structure is prescribed, while symmetry or one-sided order replaces that continuation at C^∞ regularity.
ER -