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Group-invariant moments under tomographic projections

Signal Processing 2026-04-10 v1 Information Theory math.IT

Abstract

Let f:RnRf:\mathbb{R}^n\to\mathbb{R} be an unknown object, and suppose the observations are tomographic projections of randomly rotated copies of ff of the form Y=P(Rf)Y = P(R\cdot f), where RR is Haar-uniform in SO(n)\mathrm{SO}(n) and PP is the projection onto an mm-dimensional subspace, so that Y:RmRY:\mathbb{R}^m\to\mathbb{R}. We prove that, whenever dmd\le m, the dd-th order moment of the projected data determines the full dd-th order Haar-orbit moment of ff, independently of the ambient dimension nn. We further provide an explicit algorithmic procedure for recovering the latter from the former. As a consequence, any identifiability result for the unprojected model based on dd-th order group-invariant moment extends directly to the tomographic setting at the same moment order. In particular, for n=3n=3, m=2m=2, and d=2d=2, our result recovers a classical result in the cryo-EM literature: the covariance of the 2D projection images determines the second order rotationally invariant moment of the underlying 3D object.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2604.08330,
  title  = {Group-invariant moments under tomographic projections},
  author = {Amnon Balanov and Tamir Bendory and Dan Edidin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.08330},
  year   = {2026}
}
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