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Tensor tomography on surfaces

Differential Geometry 2012-11-13 v3 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We show that on simple surfaces the geodesic ray transform acting on solenoidal symmetric tensor fields of arbitrary order is injective. This solves a long standing inverse problem in the two-dimensional case.

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@article{arxiv.1109.0505,
  title  = {Tensor tomography on surfaces},
  author = {Gabriel P. Paternain and Mikko Salo and Gunther Uhlmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.0505},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

This final version incorporates referees' comments, to appear in Inventiones

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