Gauge equivalence in stationary radiative transport through media with varying index of refraction
Author(s) -
Stephen McDowall,
Plamen Stefanov,
Alexandru Tamasan
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
inverse problems and imaging
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.755
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1930-8345
pISSN - 1930-8337
DOI - 10.3934/ipi.2010.4.151
Subject(s) - equivalence (formal languages) , radiative transfer , gauge (firearms) , refractive index , physics , equivalence relation , mathematical analysis , gauge theory , transformation (genetics) , anisotropy , metric (unit) , mathematics , pure mathematics , optics , mathematical physics , materials science , biochemistry , chemistry , operations management , economics , metallurgy , gene
Three dimensional anisotropic attenuating and scattering media sharing the same albedo operator have been shown to be related via a gauge transformation. Such transformations define an equivalence relation. We show that the gauge equivalence is also valid in media with non-constant index of refraction, modeled by a Riemannian metric. The two dimensional model is also investigated.
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