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Abel transforms with low regularity with applications to X-ray tomography on spherically symmetric manifolds

Differential Geometry 2017-11-22 v2

Abstract

We study ray transforms on spherically symmetric manifolds with a piecewise C1,1C^{1,1} metric. Assuming the Herglotz condition, the X-ray transform is injective on the space of L2L^2 functions on such manifolds. We also prove injectivity results for broken ray transforms (with and without periodicity) on such manifolds with a C1,1C^{1,1} metric. To make these problems tractable in low regularity, we introduce and study a class of generalized Abel transforms and study their properties. This low regularity setting is relevant for geophysical applications.

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@article{arxiv.1702.07625,
  title  = {Abel transforms with low regularity with applications to X-ray tomography on spherically symmetric manifolds},
  author = {Maarten V. de Hoop and Joonas Ilmavirta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.07625},
  year   = {2017}
}

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41 pages