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Inverting the local geodesic X-ray transform on tensors

Differential Geometry 2014-10-21 v1 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We prove the local invertibility, up to potential fields, and stability of the geodesic X-ray transform on tensor fields of order 1 and 2 near a strictly convex boundary point, on manifolds with boundary of dimension n>=3. We also present an inversion formula. Under the condition that the manifold can be foliated with a continuous family of strictly convex surfaces, we prove a global result which also implies a lens rigidity result near such a metric. The class of manifolds satisfying the foliation condition includes manifolds with no focal points, and does not exclude existence of conjugate points.

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@article{arxiv.1410.5145,
  title  = {Inverting the local geodesic X-ray transform on tensors},
  author = {Plamen Stefanov and Gunther Uhlmann and András Vasy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.5145},
  year   = {2014}
}

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46 pages, 1 figure

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