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Smooth anisotropic uniqueness in the Calderón problem from one boundary patch
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Abstract
We resolve the smooth anisotropic Calderón uniqueness problem with arbitrary same-patch measurements. A smooth Riemannian metric on a compact connected manifold of dimension at least three is determined, up to a diffeomorphism fixing the measured patch, by its zero-frequency Dirichlet-to-Neumann energy form with both input and observation on any nonempty open boundary patch.
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Comments and discussion
- Cârstea, Liimatainen, Lin, Trad, The conformal Poisson embedding method for the anisotropic Calderón problem with a potential (arXiv:2610.13592, 9 Oct 2026). Its relation-to-earlier-work section says a preprint in the OpenAI collection "announces smooth metric-only uniqueness from one boundary patch" and notes that these preprints use the Poisson embedding in part; it states: "The preprints mentioned above are not used in this paper, and our results do not follow from them." [family-level]
Formalization
- GitHub user l-oksanen, openai-calderon (GitHub repository, 2026). An independent Lean comparator challenge for Theorem 1.1, specialized to n = 3, the unit ball and metrics Euclidean outside the ball; the main theorem in
AnisotropicCalderon.leanis a statement with asorrybody, and the repo also has a converse test.
Possibly relevant literature (found by the agent, not checked)
- Uhlmann, Zhai, On the anisotropic Calderón's problem (arXiv:2409.01583, Sept 2024, withdrawn). v1 claimed full-data uniqueness up to boundary-fixing isometry for smooth metrics in n ≥ 3, the full-data case of Corollary 1.2, and v2 withdrew it with the comment "The argument is incorrect."
- Cekić, Krupchyk, Sahoo, Uhlmann, The anisotropic Calderón problem for Riemannian metrics at high fixed frequency (arXiv:2610.01280, 1 Oct 2026). A contemporaneous paper on recovering smooth Riemannian metrics in the anisotropic Calderón problem, at high fixed frequency rather than zero frequency.
- Pedro Caro and Keith Rogers, Global uniqueness for the Calderón problem with Lipschitz conductivities (arXiv:1411.8001; Forum of Mathematics, Pi 4, e2, 2016). Its full-boundary uniqueness theorem for Lipschitz scalar conductivities provides a comparison with Corollary 1.3’s claimed uniqueness for smooth scalar conductivities using an arbitrary common input and observation patch.
News and blogs
- Mikko Salo, Mathematics and AI (FAME Flagship, 2026-10-15). Identifies the release’s scalar and system versions of anisotropic Calderón recovery and its three-dimensional measurable-conductivity nonuniqueness claim as results of direct interest to inverse problems. [family-level]
Elsewhere
- VibeMathed: Problem record
- Emergent Mind: family 365
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Cite
@misc{OAI:Smooth-Anisotropic-Uniqueness-in-the-Calderon-Problem-from-One-Boundary-Patch-September-24-2026,
author = {{OpenAI}},
title = {{Smooth anisotropic uniqueness in the Calder\'on problem from one boundary patch}},
howpublished = {OpenAI Math Release preprint
\href{https://github.com/openai/math/blob/main/preprints/Smooth-Anisotropic-Uniqueness-in-the-Calderon-Problem-from-One-Boundary-Patch-September-24-2026/paper.pdf}{OAI:Smooth-Anisotropic-Uniqueness-in-the-Calderon-Problem-from-One-Boundary-Patch-September-24-2026}},
year = {2026}
}Lean formalization
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Family 365: Joint metric and connection recovery from one boundary patch
Zero-frequency measurements on any nonempty open boundary patch determine a smooth metric and smooth unitary connection on a trivial Hermitian rank-two bundle over a compact connected manifold of dimension at least three, up to diffeomorphism and gauge fixed on that patch. Inputs and observations use the same patch. In contrast, distinct uniformly positive bounded measurable scalar conductivities on a three-dimensional ball can have identical full-boundary data.
Other papers in this family:
- Determination of a metric and a unitary connection from one boundary patch · October 5, 2026
- Nonuniqueness for bounded measurable scalar conductivities in three dimensions · September 23, 2026