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We show that on gas giant manifolds the geodesic X-ray transform is solenoidally injective on one-forms that are smooth up to the boundary in an appropriate smooth structure. A gas giant manifold is a conformally blown up Riemannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Joonas Ilmavirta , Antti Kykkänen , Eetu Satukangas

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

Consider a compact Riemannian manifold of dimension $\geq 3$ with strictly convex boundary, such that the manifold admits a strictly convex function. We show that the attenuated ray transform in the presence of an arbitrary connection and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-05 Gabriel P. Paternain , Mikko Salo , Gunther Uhlmann , Hanming Zhou

This PhD thesis studies the broken ray transform, a generalization of the geodesic X-ray transform where geodesics are replaced with broken rays that reflect on a part of the boundary. The fundamental question is whether this transform is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-29 Joonas Ilmavirta

A translational surface is a tensor product surface constructed from two space curves by translating one along the other. These surfaces are common within geometric modeling and, since their description is parametric, it is desirable to…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-20 Matthew Weaver

We consider the X-ray transform in a projective space over a finite field. It is well known (after E. Bolker) that this transform is injective. We formulate an analog of I.M. Gelfand's admissibility problem for the Radon transform, which…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-26 David V. Feldman , Eric L. Grinberg

This paper concerns the inverse spectral problem for analytic simple surfaces of revolution. By `simple' is meant that there is precisely one critical distance from the axis of revolution. Such surfaces have completely integrable geodesic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Steve Zelditch

In the recent articles \cite{PSU1,PSU3}, a number of tensor tomography results were proved on two-dimensional manifolds. The purpose of this paper is to extend some of these methods to manifolds of any dimension. A central concept is the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-01-16 Gabriel P. Paternain , Mikko Salo , Gunther Uhlmann

We characterize the kernel of the mixed ray transform on simple $2$-dimensional Riemannian manifolds, that is, on simple surfaces for tensors of any order.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-08-07 Maarten V. de Hoop , Teemu Saksala , Jian Zhai

In dimensions $\geq 3$, we prove that the X-ray transform of symmetric tensors of arbitrary degree is generically injective with respect to the metric on closed Anosov manifolds and on manifolds with spherical strictly convex boundary, no…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-25 Mihajlo Cekić , Thibault Lefeuvre

In this article, we study the properties of the geodesic X-ray transform for asymptotically Euclidean or conic Riemannian metrics and show injectivity under non-trapping and no conjugate point assumptions. We also define a notion of lens…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Colin Guillarmou , Matti Lassas , Leo Tzou

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

Consider a compact Riemannian manifold in dimension $n$ with strictly convex boundary. We show the local invertibility near a boundary point of the transverse ray transform of $2$ tensors for $n\geq 3$ and the mixed ray transform of $2+2$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Gunther Uhlmann , Jian Zhai

We review the theory of intrinsic geometry of convex surfaces in the Euclidean space and prove the following theorem: if the surface of a convex body K contains arbitrary long closed simple geodesics, then K is an isosceles tetrahedron.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-10-01 Arseniy Akopyan , Anton Petrunin

Starting from essentially commutative exponential map $E(B|I)$ for generic tensor-valued 2-forms $B$, introduced in \cite{Akh} as direct generalization of the ordinary non-commutative $P$-exponent for 1-forms with values in matrices (i.e.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 E. T. Akhmedov , V. Dolotin , A. Morozov

This article presents the numerical verification and validation of several inversion algorithms for V-line transforms (VLTs) acting on symmetric 2-tensor fields in the plane. The analysis of these transforms and the theoretical foundation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-04 Gaik Ambartsoumian , Rohit Kumar Mishra , Indrani Zamindar

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 prove that, generically, magnetic geodesics on surfaces will turn away from points with lightlike tangent planes, and we motivate our result with numerical solutions for closed magnetic geodesics.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-03-17 Volker Branding , Wayne Rossman

This PhD dissertation is concerned with integral geometric inverse problems. The geodesic ray transform is an operator that encodes the line integrals of a function along geodesics. The dissertation establishes many conditions when such…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-10-23 Jesse Railo

The article surveys inverse problems related to the twisted geodesic flows on Riemannian manifolds with boundary, focusing on the generalized ray transforms, tensor tomography, and rigidity problems. The twisted geodesic flow generalizes…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Shubham R. Jathar , Jesse Railo