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This note proves that any locally extremal non-self-conjugate geodesic loop in a Riemannian manifold is a closed geodesic. As a consequence, any complete and non-contractible Riemannian manifold with diverging injectivity radii along…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-09-25 José Luis Flores

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

We consider integral geometry inverse problems for unitary connections and skew-Hermitian Higgs fields on manifolds with negative sectional curvature. The results apply to manifolds in any dimension, with or without boundary, and also in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Colin Guillarmou , Gabriel P. Paternain , Mikko Salo , Gunther Uhlmann

We study the geodesics on an invariant surface of a three dimensional Riemannian manifold. The main results are: the characterization of geodesic orbits; a Clairaut's relation and its geometric interpretation in some remarkable three…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-12-03 Stefano Montaldo , Irene I. Onnis

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

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 imaging of cosmic strings by using Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data. Mathematically, we study the inversion of an X-ray transform in Lorentzian geometry, called the light ray transform. The inverse problem is highly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-06 Julianne Chung , Lucas Onisk , Yiran Wang

We give an explicit Singular Value Decomposition of the sub-Riemannian X-ray transform on the Heisenberg group with compact center. By studying the singular values, we obtain a two-radius theorem for integrals over sub-Riemannian geodesics.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-09 Steven Flynn

We study the integral transform over a general family of broken rays in $\mathbb{R}^2$. It is natural for broken rays to have conjugate points, for example, when they are reflected from a curved boundary. If there are conjugate points, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-02 Yang Zhang

We initiate a study of the inversion of the geodesic X-ray transform $I_m$ over symmetric $m$-tensor fields on asymptotically hyperbolic surfaces. This operator has a non-trivial kernel whenever $m\ge 1$. To propose a gauge representative…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Nikolas Eptaminitakis , François Monard , Yuzhou Joey Zou

We study the singularities of the exponential map in semi Riemannian locally symmetric manifolds. Conjugate points along geodesics depend only on real negative eigenvalues of the curvature tensor, and their contribution to the Maslov index…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Miguel Angel Javaloyes , Paolo Piccione

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

We study the boundary and lens rigidity problems on domains without assuming the convexity of the boundary. We show that such rigidities hold when the domain is a simply connected compact Riemannian surface without conjugate points. For the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-03-24 Colin Guillarmou , Marco Mazzucchelli , Leo Tzou

This article surveys recent results aiming at obtaining refined mapping estimates for the X-ray transform on a Riemannian manifold with boundary, which leverage the condition that the boundary be strictly geodesically convex. These…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-04 François Monard

It is proved that the moduli space of static solutions of the CP^1 model on spacetime Sigma x R, where Sigma is any compact Riemann surface, is geodesically incomplete with respect to the metric induced by the kinetic energy functional. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 L. A. Sadun , J. M. Speight

Consider a Riemannian manifold in dimension $n\geq 3$ with strictly convex boundary. We prove the local invertibility, up to potential fields, of the geodesic ray transform on tensor fields of rank four near a boundary point. This problem…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Maarten V. de Hoop , Gunther Uhlmann , Jian Zhai

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

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

Let $\sigma$ be the scattering relation on a compact Riemannian manifold $M$ with non-necessarily convex boundary, that maps initial points of geodesic rays on the boundary and initial directions to the outgoing point on the boundary and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Plamen Stefanov , Gunther Uhlmann

We determine the complete conjugate locus along all geodesics parallel or perpendicular to the center (Theorem 2.3). When the center is 1-dimensional we obtain formulas in all cases (Theorem 2.5), and when a certain operator is also…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Changrim Jang , Phillip E. Parker