Recovery of time-dependent coefficient on Riemanian manifold for hyperbolic equations

Abstract

Given $(M,g)$, a compact connected Riemannian manifold of dimension $d \geq 2$, with boundary $\partial M$, we study the inverse boundary value problem of determining a time-dependent potential $q$, appearing in the wave equation $\partial_t^2u-\Delta_g u+q(t,x)u=0$ in $\bar M=(0,T)\times M$ with $T>0$. Under suitable geometric assumptions we prove global unique determination of $q\in L^\infty(\bar M)$ given the Cauchy data set on the whole boundary $\partial \bar M$, or on certain subsets of $\partial \bar M$. Our problem can be seen as an analogue of the Calder\'on problem on the Lorentzian manifold $(\bar M, dt^2 - g)$.