Applications of microlocal analysis in general relativity and inverse problems

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Abstract
This thesis consists of three parts: the first part serves as a brief introduction to microlocal analysis; the second part is the application of microlocal analysis in general relativity; the third part is the application of microlocal analysis in inverse problems. In the first part, we introduce various pseudodifferential operator algebras we will use as tools in our applications. These algebras include well-known ones such as classical, scattering and balgebras, and also relatively new ones such as 1-cusp (in fact, its semiclassical foliation version) and the one we construct for our wave propagation on Kerr(-de Sitter) spacetimes. In the second part, we prove a propagation estimate with arbitrarily small extra loss compared with the classical non-trapping propagation estimates using the algebra we constructed in Chapter 3. One of the major applications of estimates of this type is to linearized Einstein equations on the Kerr(-de Sitter) spacetimes. In the third part, we consider the injectivity of the X-ray transform on one forms and 2-tensors on asymptotically conic manifolds. This uses the algebra developed by Andras Vasy and Evangelie Zachos. This question is motivated by the boundary rigidity problem of asymptotically conic manifolds, we expect this injectivity result of the X-ray transform to be a linearization of it and serve as a key ingredient in the proof of this rigidity problem.

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Type of resource text
Form electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource
Extent 1 online resource.
Place California
Place [Stanford, California]
Publisher [Stanford University]
Copyright date 2023; ©2023
Publication date 2023; 2023
Issuance monographic
Language English

Creators/Contributors

Author Jia, Qiuye
Degree supervisor Vasy, András
Thesis advisor Vasy, András
Thesis advisor Mazzeo, Rafe
Thesis advisor Ryzhik, Leonid
Degree committee member Mazzeo, Rafe
Degree committee member Ryzhik, Leonid
Associated with Stanford University, School of Engineering
Associated with Stanford University, Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering

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Genre Theses
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Bibliographic information

Statement of responsibility Qiuye Jia.
Note Submitted to the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering.
Thesis Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2023.
Location https://purl.stanford.edu/yc828ws1049

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© 2023 by Qiuye Jia
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).

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