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Broken ray tensor tomography with one reflecting obstacle

Differential Geometry 2020-01-24 v2 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We show that a tensor field of any rank integrates to zero over all broken rays if and only if it is a symmetrized covariant derivative of a lower order tensor which satisfies a symmetry condition at the reflecting part of the boundary and vanishes on the rest. This is done in a geometry with non-positive sectional curvature and a strictly convex obstacle in any dimension. We give two proofs, both of which contain new features also in the absence of reflections. The result is new even for scalars in dimensions above two.

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@article{arxiv.1805.04947,
  title  = {Broken ray tensor tomography with one reflecting obstacle},
  author = {Joonas Ilmavirta and Gabriel P. Paternain},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.04947},
  year   = {2020}
}

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21 pages

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