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Matti Lassas

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Retrieving Yang--Mills--Higgs fields in Minkowski space from active local measurements

We show that we can retrieve a Yang--Mills potential and a Higgs field (up to gauge) from source-to-solution type data associated with the classical Yang--Mills--Higgs equations in Minkowski space $\mathbb{R}^{1+3}$. We impose natural non-degeneracy conditions on the representation for the Higgs field and on the Lie algebra of the structure group which are satisfied for the case of the Standard Model. Our approach exploits the non-linear interaction of waves generated by sources with values in the centre of the Lie algebra showing that abelian components can be used effectively to recover the Higgs field.

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CT scans without X-rays: parallel-beam imaging from nonlinear current flows

Parallel-beam X-ray computed tomography (CT) and electrical impedance tomography (EIT) are two imaging modalities which stem from completely different underlying physics, and for decades have been thought to have little in common either practically or mathematically. CT is only mildly ill-posed and uses straight X-rays as measurement energy, which admits simple linear mathematics. However, CT relies on exposing targets to ionizing radiation and requires cumbersome setups with expensive equipment. In contrast, EIT uses harmless electrical currents as measurement energy and can be implemented using simple low-cost portable setups. But EIT is burdened by nonlinearity stemming from the curved paths of electrical currents, as well as extreme ill-posedness which causes characteristic low spatial resolution. In practical EIT reconstruction methods, nonlinearity and ill-posedness have been considered intertwined in a complicated fashion. In this work we demonstrate a surprising connection between CT and EIT which partly unravels the main problems of EIT and leads directly to a proposed imaging modality which we call virtual hybrid parallel-beam tomography (VHPT). We show that hidden deep within EIT data is information which possesses the same linear geometry as parallel-beam CT data. This admits a fundamental restructuring of EIT, separating ill-posedness and nonlinearity into simple modular sub-problems, and yields ''virtual radiographs'' and CT-like images which reveal previously concealed information. Furthermore, as proof of concept we present VHPT images of real-world objects.

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Stable recovery of coefficients in an inverse fault friction problem

We consider the inverse fault friction problem of determining the friction coefficient in the Tresca friction model, which can be formulated as an inverse problem for differential inequalities. We show that the measurements of elastic waves during a rupture uniquely determine the friction coefficient at the rupture surface with explicit stability estimates.

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Inverse Spectral Problems for Collapsing Manifolds II: Quantitative Stability of Reconstruction for Orbifolds

We consider the inverse problem of determining the metric-measure structure of collapsing manifolds from local measurements of spectral data. In the part I of the paper, we proved the uniqueness of the inverse problem and a continuity result for the stability in the closure of Riemannian manifolds with bounded diameter and sectional curvature in the measured Gromov-Hausdorff topology. In this paper we show that when the collapse of dimension is $1$-dimensional, it is possible to obtain quantitative stability of the inverse problem for Riemannian orbifolds. The proof is based on an improved version of the quantitative unique continuation for the wave operator on Riemannian manifolds by removing assumptions on the covariant derivatives of the curvature tensor.

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Inverse Spectral Problems for Collapsing Manifolds I: Uniqueness and Stability

We consider the geometric inverse problem of determining a closed Riemannian manifold from measurements of the heat kernel in an open subset of the manifold. In this paper we analyze the stability of this problem in the class of $n$-dimensional Riemannian manifolds with bounded diameter and sectional curvature. It is well-known that a sequence in this class of manifolds can collapse to a lower dimensional stratified space when the injectivity radius of the sequence of manifolds goes to zero. We prove the uniqueness of the inverse problem on the limiting spaces of the collapsing manifolds. As a result, we obtain stability results for the inverse problem in the class of manifolds with bounded diameter and sectional curvature.

math.DG↗

Quantitative stability of Gel'fand's inverse boundary problem

In Gel'fand's inverse problem, one aims to determine the topology, differential structure and Riemannian metric of a compact manifold $M$ with boundary from the knowledge of the boundary $\partial M,$ the Neumann eigenvalues $λ_j$ and the boundary values of the eigenfunctions $φ_j|_{\partial M}$. We show that this problem has a stable solution with quantitative stability estimates in a class of manifolds with bounded geometry. More precisely, we show that finitely many eigenvalues and the boundary values of corresponding eigenfunctions, known up to small errors, determine a metric space that is close to the manifold in the Gromov-Hausdorff sense. We provide an algorithm to construct this metric space. This result is based on an explicit estimate on the stability of the unique continuation for the wave operator.

math.AP↗

Quantum computing algorithms for inverse problems on graphs and an NP-complete inverse problem

We consider an inverse problem for a finite graph $(X,E)$ where we are given a subset of vertices $B\subset X$ and the distances $d_{(X,E)}(b_1,b_2)$ of all vertices $b_1,b_2\in B$. The distance of points $x_1,x_2\in X$ is defined as the minimal number of edges needed to connect two vertices, so all edges have length 1. The inverse problem is a discrete version of the boundary rigidity problem in Riemannian geometry or the inverse travel time problem in geophysics. We will show that this problem has unique solution under certain conditions and develop quantum computing methods to solve it. We prove the following uniqueness result: when $(X,E)$ is a tree and $B$ is the set of leaves of the tree, the graph $(X,E)$ can be uniquely determined in the class of all graphs having a fixed number of vertices. We present a quantum computing algorithm which produces a graph $(X,E)$, or one of those, which has a given number of vertices and the required distances between vertices in $B$. To this end we develop an algorithm that takes in a qubit representation of a graph and combine it with Grover's search algorithm. The algorithm can be implemented using only $O(|X|^2)$ qubits, the same order as the number of elements in the adjacency matrix of $(X,E)$. It also has a quadratic improvement in computational cost compared to standard classical algorithms. Finally, we consider applications in theory of computation, and show that a slight modification of the above inverse problem is NP-complete: all NP-problems can be reduced to a discrete inverse problem we consider.

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On the lack of external response of a nonlinear medium in the second-harmonic generation process

This paper concerns the scattering problem for a nonlinear medium of compact support, $D$, with second-harmonic generation. Such a medium, when probed with monochromatic light beams at frequency $ω$, generates additional waves at frequency $2ω$. The response of the medium is governed by a system of two coupled semilinear partial differential equations for the electric fields at frequency $ω$ and $2ω$. We investigate whether there are situations in which the generated $2ω$ wave is localized inside $D$, that is, the nonlinear interaction of the medium with the probing wave is invisible to an outside observer. This leads to the analysis of a semilinear elliptic system formulated in $D$ with non-standard boundary conditions. The analysis presented here sets up a mathematical framework needed to investigate a multitude of questions related to nonlinear scattering with second-harmonic generation.

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Fitting a manifold to data in the presence of large noise

We assume that $M_0$ is a $d$-dimensional $C^{2,1}$-smooth submanifold of $R^n$. Let $K_0$ be the convex hull of $M_0,$ and $B^n_1(0)$ be the unit ball. We assume that $ M_0 \subseteq \partial K_0 \subseteq B^n_1(0).$ We also suppose that $M_0$ has volume ($d$-dimensional Hausdorff measure) less or equal to $V$, reach (i.e., normal injectivity radius) greater or equal to $τ$. Moreover, we assume that $M_0$ is $R$-exposed, that is, tangent to every point $x \in M$ there is a closed ball of radius $R$ that contains $M$. Let $x_1, \dots, x_N$ be independent random variables sampled from uniform distribution on $M_0$ and $ζ_1, \dots, ζ_N$ be a sequence of i.i.d Gaussian random variables in $R^n$ that are independent of $x_1, \dots, x_N$ and have mean zero and covariance $σ^2 I_n.$ We assume that we are given the noisy sample points $y_i$, given by $$ y_i = x_i + ζ_i,\quad \hbox{ for }i = 1, 2, \dots,N. $$ Let $ε,η>0$ be real numbers and $k\geq 2$. Given points $y_i$, $i=1,2,\dots,N$, we produce a $C^k$-smooth function which zero set is a manifold $M_{rec}\subseteq R^n$ such that the Hausdorff distance between $M_{rec}$ and $M_0$ is at most $ ε$ and $M_{rec}$ has reach that is bounded below by $cτ/d^6$ with probability at least $1 - η.$ Assuming $d < c \sqrt{\log \log n}$ and all the other parameters are positive constants independent of $n$, the number of the needed arithmetic operations is polynomial in $n$. In the present work, we allow the noise magnitude $σ$ to be an arbitrarily large constant, thus overcoming a drawback of previous work.

math.ST↗

TILT: topological interface recovery in limited-angle tomography

A novel reconstruction method is introduced for the severely ill-posed inverse problem of limited-angle tomography. It is well known that, depending on the available measurement, angles specify a subset of the wavefront set of the unknown target, while some oriented singularities remain invisible in the data. Topological Interface recovery for Limited-angle Tomography, or TILT, is based on lifting the visible part of the wavefront set under a universal covering map. In the space provided, it is possible to connect the appropriate pieces of the lifted wavefront set correctly using dual-tree complex wavelets, a dedicated metric, and persistent homology. The result is not only a suggested invisible boundary but also a computational representation for all interfaces in the target.

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An inverse problem for general minimal surfaces

In this paper we consider an inverse problem of determining a minimal surface embedded in a Riemannian manifold. We show under a topological condition that if $Σ$ is a $2$-dimensional embedded minimal surface, then the knowledge of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map associated to the minimal surface equation determines $Σ$ up to an isometry. Without the topological condition, we show that a conformal factor of a general minimal surface $Σ$ can be recovered. We develop a semiclassical nonlinear calculus for complex geometric optics solutions, which allows an efficient error analysis for multiplication of the correction terms of the solutions. The calculus is independent of the application to the minimal surface equation and we expect it to have applications in various inverse problems for nonlinear equations in dimension $2$, in both $\mathbb{R}^2$ and geometric settings. Other applications of the results include generalized boundary rigidity problem and the AdS/CFT correspondence in physics.

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Inner product regularized multi-energy X-ray tomography for material decomposition

Multi-energy X-ray tomography is studied for decomposing three materials using three X-ray energies and a classical energy-integrating detector. A novel regularization term comprises inner products between the material distribution functions, penalizing any overlap of different materials. The method is tested on real data measured of a phantom embedded with Na$_2$SeO$_3$, Na$_2$SeO$_4$, and elemental selenium. It is found that the two-dimensional distributions of selenium in different oxidation states can be mapped and distinguished from each other with the new algorithm. The results have applications in material science, chemistry, biology and medicine.

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An Approximation Theory for Metric Space-Valued Functions With A View Towards Deep Learning

Motivated by the developing mathematics of deep learning, we build universal functions approximators of continuous maps between arbitrary Polish metric spaces $\mathcal{X}$ and $\mathcal{Y}$ using elementary functions between Euclidean spaces as building blocks. Earlier results assume that the target space $\mathcal{Y}$ is a topological vector space. We overcome this limitation by ``randomization'': our approximators output discrete probability measures over $\mathcal{Y}$. When $\mathcal{X}$ and $\mathcal{Y}$ are Polish without additional structure, we prove very general qualitative guarantees; when they have suitable combinatorial structure, we prove quantitative guarantees for Hölder-like maps, including maps between finite graphs, solution operators to rough differential equations between certain Carnot groups, and continuous non-linear operators between Banach spaces arising in inverse problems. In particular, we show that the required number of Dirac measures is determined by the combinatorial structure of $\mathcal{X}$ and $\mathcal{Y}$. For barycentric $\mathcal{Y}$, including Banach spaces, $\mathbb{R}$-trees, Hadamard manifolds, or Wasserstein spaces on Polish metric spaces, our approximators reduce to $\mathcal{Y}$-valued functions. When the Euclidean approximators are neural networks, our constructions generalize transformer networks, providing a new probabilistic viewpoint of geometric deep learning.

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Globally injective and bijective neural operators

Recently there has been great interest in operator learning, where networks learn operators between function spaces from an essentially infinite-dimensional perspective. In this work we present results for when the operators learned by these networks are injective and surjective. As a warmup, we combine prior work in both the finite-dimensional ReLU and operator learning setting by giving sharp conditions under which ReLU layers with linear neural operators are injective. We then consider the case the case when the activation function is pointwise bijective and obtain sufficient conditions for the layer to be injective. We remark that this question, while trivial in the finite-rank case, is subtler in the infinite-rank case and is proved using tools from Fredholm theory. Next, we prove that our supplied injective neural operators are universal approximators and that their implementation, with finite-rank neural networks, are still injective. This ensures that injectivity is not `lost' in the transcription from analytical operators to their finite-rank implementation with networks. Finally, we conclude with an increase in abstraction and consider general conditions when subnetworks, which may be many layers deep, are injective and surjective and provide an exact inversion from a `linearization.' This section uses general arguments from Fredholm theory and Leray-Schauder degree theory for non-linear integral equations to analyze the mapping properties of neural operators in function spaces. These results apply to subnetworks formed from the layers considered in this work, under natural conditions. We believe that our work has applications in Bayesian UQ where injectivity enables likelihood estimation and in inverse problems where surjectivity and injectivity corresponds to existence and uniqueness, respectively.

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Disjoint data inverse problem on manifolds with quantum chaos bounds

We consider the inverse problem to determine a smooth compact Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ from a restriction of the source-to-solution operator, $Λ_{\mathcal{S,R}}$, for the wave equation on the manifold. Here, $\mathcal{S}$ and $\mathcal{R}$ are open sets on $M$, and $Λ_{\mathcal{S,R}}$ represents the measurements of waves produced by smooth sources supported on $\mathcal{S}$ and observed on $\mathcal{R}$. We emphasise that $\overline{\mathcal{S}}$ and $\overline{\mathcal{R}}$ could be disjoint. We demonstrate that $Λ_{\mathcal{S,R}}$ determines the manifold $(M,g)$ uniquely under the following spectral bound condition for the set $\mathcal{S}$: There exists a constant $C>0$ such that any normalized eigenfunction $ϕ_k$ of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on $(M,g)$ satisfies \begin{equation*} 1\leq C\|ϕ_k\|_{L^2(\mathcal{S})}. \end{equation*} We note that, for the Anosov surface, this spectral bound condition is fulfilled for any non-empty open subset $\mathcal{S}$. Our approach is based on the paper [18] and the spectral bound condition above is an analogue of the Hassell-Tao condition there.

math.AP↗

Gel'fand's inverse problem for the graph Laplacian

We study the discrete Gel'fand's inverse boundary spectral problem of determining a finite weighted graph. Suppose that the set of vertices of the graph is a union of two disjoint sets: $X=B\cup G$, where $B$ is called the set of the boundary vertices and $G$ is called the set of the interior vertices. We consider the case where the vertices in the set $G$ and the edges connecting them are unknown. Assume that we are given the set $B$ and the pairs $(λ_j,ϕ_j|_B)$, where $λ_j$ are the eigenvalues of the graph Laplacian and $ϕ_j|_B$ are the values of the corresponding eigenfunctions at the vertices in $B$. We show that the graph structure, namely the unknown vertices in $G$ and the edges connecting them, along with the weights, can be uniquely determined from the given data, if every boundary vertex is connected to only one interior vertex and the graph satisfies the following property: any subset $S\subseteq G$ of cardinality $|S|\geqslant 2$ contains two extreme points. A point $x\in S$ is called an extreme point of $S$ if there exists a point $z\in B$ such that $x$ is the unique nearest point in $S$ from $z$ with respect to the graph distance. This property is valid for several standard types of lattices and their perturbations.

math.SP↗

Quantitative unique continuation for the elasticity system with application to the kinematic inverse rupture problem

We obtain explicit estimates on the stability of the unique continuation for a linear system of hyperbolic equations. In particular our result applies to the elasticity system and also the Maxwell system. As an application, we study the kinematic inverse rupture problem of determining the jump in displacement and the friction force at the rupture surface, and we obtain new features on the stable unique continuation up to the rupture surface.

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Inverse problems for discrete heat equations and random walks for a class of graphs

We study the inverse problem of determining a finite weighted graph $(X,E)$ from the source-to-solution map on a vertex subset $B\subset X$ for heat equations on graphs, where the time variable can be either discrete or continuous. We prove that this problem is equivalent to the discrete version of the inverse interior spectral problem, provided that there does not exist a nonzero eigenfunction of the weighted graph Laplacian vanishing identically on $B$. In particular, we consider inverse problems for discrete-time random walks on finite graphs. We show that under a novel geometric condition (called the Two-Points Condition), the graph structure and the transition matrix of the random walk can be uniquely recovered from the distributions of the first passing times on $B$, or from the observation on $B$ of one realization of the random walk.

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