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A sharp stability estimate for the geodesic ray transform

Metric Geometry 2019-03-12 v2 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We prove a sharp L2H1/2L^2\to H^{1/2} stability estimate for the geodesic X-ray transform of tensor fields of order 00, 11 and 22 on a simple Riemannian manifold with a suitable chosen H1/2H^{1/2} norm. We show that such an estimate holds for a family of such H1/2H^{1/2} norms, not topologically equivalent, but equivalent on the range of the transform. The reason for this is that the geodesic X-ray transform has a microlocally structured range.

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@article{arxiv.1806.00707,
  title  = {A sharp stability estimate for the geodesic ray transform},
  author = {Yernat Assylbekov and Plamen Stefanov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.00707},
  year   = {2019}
}
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