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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

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

We give reconstruction formulas inverting the geodesic X-ray transform over functions (call it $I_0$) and solenoidal vector fields on surfaces with negative curvature and strictly convex boundary. These formulas generalize the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-11-18 Colin Guillarmou , François Monard

This work gives an expository account of certain applications of microlocal analysis in three geometric inverse problems. We will discuss the geodesic X-ray transform inverse problem, the Gelfand problem for the wave equation on a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-14 Mikko Salo

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

Any even function defined on 2-sphere is reconstructed from its integrals over big circles by means of the classical Funk formula. For the non-geodesic Funk transform on the sphere of arbitrary dimension, there is the explicit inversion…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-29 Victor Palamodov

The X-ray transform on a compact symmetric space M is here inverted by means of an explicit inversion formula. The proof uses the conjugacy of the minimal closed geodesics in M and of the maximally curved totally geodesic spheres in M,…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sigurdur Helgason

The present article proposes a partial answer to the explicit inversion of the tensor tomography problem in two dimensions, by proving injectivity over certain kinds of tensors and providing reconstruction formulas for them. These tensors…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-18 François Monard

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

Many known Radon-type transforms of symmetric (radial or zonal) functions are represented by one-dimensional Riemann-Liouville fractional integrals or their modifications. The present article contains new examples of such transforms in the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Boris Rubin

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 prove solenoidal injectivity for the geodesic X-ray transform of tensor fields on simple Riemannian manifolds with $C^{1,1}$ metrics and non-positive sectional curvature. The proof of the result rests on Pestov energy estimates for a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-15 Joonas Ilmavirta , Antti Kykkänen

It has been shown in [Pa1] that on a simple, compact Riemannian 2-manifold the attenuated geodesic ray transform, with attenuation given by a connection and Higgs field, is injective on functions and 1-forms modulo the natural obstruction.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-03-29 Gareth Ainsworth

We study integral transforms mapping a function on the Euclidean space to the family of its integration on some hypersurfaces, that is, a function of hypersurfaces. The hypersurfaces are given by the graphs of functions with fixed axes of…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2020-06-08 Hiroyuki Chihara

Algorithms for the computation of geodesics on an ellipsoid of revolution are given. These provide accurate, robust, and fast solutions to the direct and inverse geodesic problems and they allow differential and integral properties of…

Geophysics · Physics 2013-01-08 Charles F. F. Karney

We introduce a technique for recovering a sufficiently smooth function from its ray transform over a wide class of curves in a general region of Euclidean space. The method is based on a complexification of the underlying vector fields…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2010-11-17 Nicholas Hoell , Guillaume Bal

The goal of inversion is to estimate the model which generates the data of observations with a specific modeling equation. One general approach to inversion is to use optimization methods which are algebraic in nature to define an objective…

Geophysics · Physics 2015-06-02 August Lau , Chuan Yin

This article presents an overview of robot learning and adaptive control applications that can benefit from a joint use of Riemannian geometry and probabilistic representations. The roles of Riemannian manifolds, geodesics and parallel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Sylvain Calinon

Let $(M,g)$ be a simple Riemannian manifold with boundary and consider the geodesic ray transform of symmetric 2-tensor fields. Let the integral of $f$ along maximal geodesics vanish on an appropriate open subset of the space of geodesics…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-03-21 Venky Krishnan , Plamen Stefanov

This paper is devoted to searching for Riemannian metrics on 2-surfaces whose geodesic flows admit a rational in momenta first integral with a linear numerator and denominator. The explicit examples of metrics and such integrals are…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-10-27 Sergei Agapov , Vladislav Shubin