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We study the microlocal properties of the geodesic X-ray transform $\mathcal{X}$ on a manifold with boundary allowing the presence of conjugate points. Assuming that there are no self-intersecting geodesics and all conjugate pairs are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-02-24 Sean Holman , Gunther Uhlmann

In this article, we study the microlocal properties of the geodesic ray transform of symmetric $m$-tensor fields on 2-dimensional Riemannian manifolds with boundary allowing the possibility of conjugate points. As is known from an earlier…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-09 Sean Holman , Venkateswaran P. Krishnan

We study the structure of normal operators of double fibration transforms with conjugate points. Examples of double fibration transforms include Radon transforms, $d$-plane transforms on the Euclidean space, geodesic X-ray transforms,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Hiroyuki Chihara

In this paper, partly based on Zachos' PhD thesis, we show that the geodesic X-ray transform is stably invertible near infinity on a class of asymptotically conic manifolds which includes perturbations of Euclidean space. In particular…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-02 András Vasy , Evangelie Zachos

In this paper we show the invertibility of the geodesic X-ray transform on one forms and 2-tensors on asymptotically conic manifolds, up to the natural obstruction, allowing existence of certain kinds of conjugate points. We use the 1-cusp…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-12-06 Qiuye Jia , András Vasy

On simple geodesic disks of constant curvature, we derive new functional relations for the geodesic X-ray transform, involving a certain class of elliptic differential operators whose ellipticity degenerates normally at the boundary. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-20 François Monard

We consider the normal operator of the X-ray transform, weighted with Gaussian weights, in Euclidean space with dimension at least 3. We show the eigenfunctions of the normal operator are joint eigenfunctions of the harmonic oscillator and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Yuzhou Joey Zou

We study the geodesic X-ray transform $X$ on compact Riemannian surfaces with conjugate points. Regardless of the type of the conjugate points, we show that we cannot recover the singularities and therefore, this transform is always…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-20 François Monard , Plamen Stefanov , Gunther Uhlmann

In this paper we consider the local X-ray transform for general flows. We extend the results on the local and global invertibility of the geodesic ray transform proved by Uhlmann and Vasy \cite{UV} to the X-ray transform for a general flow.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-07-23 Hanming Zhou

For an arbitrary Riemannian manifold $X$ and Hermitian vector bundles $E$ and $F$ over $X$ we define the notion of the normal symbol of a pseudodifferential operator $P$ from $E$ to $F$. The normal symbol of $P$ is a certain smooth function…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Markus J. Pflaum

The paper investigates the sensitivity of the inverse problem of recovering the velocity field in a bounded domain from the boundary dynamic Dirichlet-to-Neumann map (DDtN) for the wave equation. Three main results are obtained: (1)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-07 Gang Bao , Hai Zhang

We prove that the geodesic X-ray transform is injective on $L^2$ when the Riemannian metric is simple but the metric tensor is only finitely differentiable. The number of derivatives needed depends explicitly on dimension, and in dimension…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-25 Joonas Ilmavirta , Antti Kykkänen , Kelvin Lam

We study a one-parameter family of self-adjoint normal operators for the X-ray transform on the closed Euclidean disk ${\mathbb D}$, obtained by considering specific singularly weighted $L^2$ topologies. We first recover the well-known…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-12-07 Rohit Kumar Mishra , François Monard , Yuzhou Zou

We develop an algorithm for the computation of general Fourier integral operators associated with canonical graphs. The algorithm is based on dyadic parabolic decomposition using wave packets and enables the discrete approximate evaluation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Maarten V. de Hoop , Gunther Uhlmann , Andras Vasy , Herwig Wendt

We establish sharp $L^2$-Sobolev estimates for classes of pseudodifferential operators with singular symbols whose non-pseudodifferential (Fourier integral operator) parts exhibit two-sided fold singularities. The operators considered…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-02-08 Raluca Felea , Allan Greenleaf , Malabika Pramanik

We initiate the study of X-ray tomography on sub-Riemannian manifolds, for which the Heisenberg group exhibits the simplest nontrivial example. With the language of the group Fourier Transform, we prove an operator-valued incarnation of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-10-22 Steven Flynn

In this paper, we consider the inverse problem of determining an unknown function defined in three space dimensions from its geodesic X-ray transform. The standard X-ray transform is defined on the Euclidean metric and is given by the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-27 Tak Shing Au Yeung , Eric T. Chung , Gunther Uhlmann

We develop a theory of pseudo-differential operators associated with the gyrator transform on modulation spaces. The gyrator transform is a two-dimensional linear canonical transform which can be viewed as a rotation in the time-frequency…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Durgesh Pasawan

We show injectivity of the geodesic X-ray transform on piecewise constant functions when the transform is weighted by a continuous matrix weight. The manifold is assumed to be compact and nontrapping of any dimension, and in dimension three…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-10-23 Joonas Ilmavirta , Jesse Railo

We derive reconstruction formulas for a family of geodesic ray transforms with connection, defined on simple Riemannian surfaces. Such formulas provide injectivity of such all transforms in a neighbourhood of constant curvature metrics and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-09-22 François Monard , Gabriel P. Paternain
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