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Covariant tomography of fields

Mathematical Physics 2026-03-03 v2 Analysis of PDEs Differential Geometry math.MP

Abstract

This paper develops 'covariant tomography', a local framework for solving Inverse Boundary Value Problems (IBVP) for parallel transport equation on star-shaped domains. By integrating geometric decomposition with specific interior extensions - radial, heat equation, or harmonic - the method reconstructs currents and gauge potentials from boundary data. The choice of extension directly dictates the regularity of the recovered interior fields. A primary contribution is the 'tower' algorithm, which reduces higher-order systems, such as Maxwell equations, to a sequence of coupled first-order equations. We establish a formal solvability criterion (Theorem \ref{Th_TowerTheorem}), proving that higher-order IBVPs are solvable if and only if this tower is sequentially solvable. The framework is validated through low-dimensional examples and electromagnetic potential reconstruction in R3\mathbb{R}^{3}.

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@article{arxiv.2601.13261,
  title  = {Covariant tomography of fields},
  author = {Radosław Antoni Kycia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.13261},
  year   = {2026}
}

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20 pages, 1 figure

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