Wave-front density conjecture for smooth metrics on tori
Wave-front density conjecture for smooth metrics on tori
Let be the -dimensional torus with , equipped with a smooth Riemannian metric, and let denote the wave front at time from a point . The wave front becomes dense if it eventually intersects every open metric ball in the torus. Torus wave-front density conjecture. For any smooth Riemannian metric on with , the wave front of any point becomes dense. The claim extends the proved flat-torus case to arbitrary smooth metrics; the source states that this extension has not been proved, although hyperbolic geodesic flow would imply density.
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Primary source
Emily Kang and Oliver Knill, “Density of wave fronts”, arXiv:2501.14611 (2026).
Additional references
3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2002–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2001.11746, arXiv:math/0210372.
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