Time-optimal reconstruction of Riemannian manifold via boundary electromagnetic measurements
A dynamical Maxwell system is \begin{align*} & e_t={\rm curl\,} h, \quad h_t=-{\rm curl\,} e &&{\rm in}\,\,Ω\times (0,T) & e|_{t=0}=0,\,\,\,\,h|_{t=0}=0 &&{\rm in}\,\,Ω & e_θ=f &&{\rm in}\,\,\, \partialΩ\times [0,T] \end{align*} where $Ω$ is a smooth compact oriented $3$-dimensional Riemannian manifold with boundary, $(\,\cdot\,)_θ$ is a tangent component of a vector at the boundary, $e=e^f(x,t)$ and $h=h^f(x,t)$ are the electric and magnetic components of the solution. With the system one associates a response operator $R^T: f \mapsto -ν\wedge h^f|_{\partialΩ\times (0,T)}$, where $ν$ is an outward normal to $\partialΩ$. The time-optimal setup of the inverse problem, which is relevant to the finiteness of the wave speed propagation, is: given $R^{2T}$ to recover the part $Ω^T:=\{x\in Ω\,|\,{\rm dist\,}(x,\partial Ω) 0$ and provide a procedure that recovers ${Ω^T}$ from $R^{2T}$. Our approach is a version of the boundary control method (Belishev, 1986).