{ "id": "1408.1115", "version": "v2", "published": "2014-08-05T21:10:28.000Z", "updated": "2014-09-12T17:04:15.000Z", "title": "The Euler characteristic of a surface from its Fourier analysis in one direction", "authors": [ "Nguyen Viet Dang" ], "comment": "Section 3 entirely rewritten, appendix made shorter, formula (8) in Theorem 2.1 for $\\chi(S)$ in the older version had wrong sign now corrected, new results related to the Radon transform added", "categories": [ "math.GT", "math.AP" ], "abstract": "In this paper, we prove that we can recover the genus of a closed compact surface $S$ in $\\mathbb{R}^3$ from the restriction to a generic line of the Fourier transform of the canonical measure carried by $S$. We also show that the restriction on some line in Minkowski space of the solution of a linear wave equation whose Cauchy data comes from the canonical measure carried by $S$, allows to recover the Euler characteristic of $S$.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2014-08-05T21:10:28.000Z", "comment": null, "journal": null, "doi": null }, { "version": "v2", "updated": "2014-09-12T17:04:15.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "35A27", "35A18", "57R70" ], "keywords": [ "euler characteristic", "fourier analysis", "cauchy data comes", "linear wave equation", "canonical measure" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }