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A sharp stability estimate for tensor tomography in non-positive curvature

Analysis of PDEs 2020-09-21 v2 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We consider the geodesic X-ray transform acting on solenoidal tensor fields on a compact simply connected manifold with strictly convex boundary and non-positive curvature. We establish a stability estimate of the form L2HT1/2L^2\mapsto H^{1/2}_{T}, where the HT1/2H^{1/2}_{T}-space is defined using the natural parametrization of geodesics as initial boundary points and incoming directions (fan-beam geometry); only tangential derivatives at the boundary are used. The proof is based on the Pestov identity with boundary term localized in frequency.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2001.04334,
  title  = {A sharp stability estimate for tensor tomography in non-positive curvature},
  author = {Gabriel P. Paternain and Mikko Salo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.04334},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

Revised version to appear in Mathematische Zeitschrift, 24p. The appendix of version 1 has been removed and incorporated in shorter form into the main text. The appendix still can be found in v1 and could be useful for other purposes

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