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The $C^\infty$-isomorphism property for a class of singularly-weighted X-ray transforms

Analysis of PDEs 2022-12-07 v2 Spectral Theory

Abstract

We study a one-parameter family of self-adjoint normal operators for the X-ray transform on the closed Euclidean disk D{\mathbb D}, obtained by considering specific singularly weighted L2L^2 topologies. We first recover the well-known Singular Value Decompositions in terms of orthogonal disk (or generalized Zernike) polynomials, then prove that each such realization is an isomorphism of C(D)C^\infty({\mathbb D}). As corollaries: we give some range characterizations; we show how such choices of normal operators can be expressed as functions of two distinguished differential operators. We also show that the isomorphism property also holds on a class of constant-curvature, circularly symmetric simple surfaces. These results allow to design functional contexts where normal operators built out of the X-ray transform are provably invertible, in Fr\'echet and Hilbert spaces encoding specific boundary behavior.

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@article{arxiv.2203.09861,
  title  = {The $C^\infty$-isomorphism property for a class of singularly-weighted X-ray transforms},
  author = {Rohit Kumar Mishra and François Monard and Yuzhou Zou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.09861},
  year   = {2022}
}

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