Generic density conjecture for wave fronts on Riemannian manifolds

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Let MM be a dd-dimensional Riemannian manifold with or without boundary, where d2d\geq 2, and let Wt(P)W_t(P) denote the wave front at time tt from a point PMP\in M. The wave front becomes dense on MM if it eventually intersects every open metric ball in MM. Generic wave-front density conjecture. For a generic such manifold, the wave front Wt(P)W_t(P) becomes dense for all points PMP\in M. This is motivated by numerical experiments and the expected growth of the wave front, but the meaning of genericity is only discussed informally and the conjecture remains open.

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Emily Kang and Oliver Knill, “Density of wave fronts”, arXiv:2501.14611 (2026).

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