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We prove the local invertibility, up to potential fields, and stability of the geodesic X-ray transform on tensor fields of order 1 and 2 near a strictly convex boundary point, on manifolds with boundary of dimension n>=3. We also present…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-10-21 Plamen Stefanov , Gunther Uhlmann , András Vasy

We study the geodesic X-ray transform $I_\Gamma$ of tensor fields on a compact Riemannian manifold $M$ with non-necessarily convex boundary and with possible conjugate points. We assume that $I_\Gamma$ is known for geodesics belonging to an…

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

We prove a generalized version of the Morse index theorem for geodesics endowed with a non positive definite metric tensor (semi-Riemannian manifolds). We apply the result to obtain lower estimates on the number of geodesics joining two…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Paolo Piccione , Daniel V. Tausk

We show that the geodesic ray transform is injective on scalar functions on spherically symmetric reversible Finsler manifolds where the Finsler norm satisfies a Herglotz condition. We use angular Fourier series to reduce the injectivity…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-12-06 Joonas Ilmavirta , Keijo Mönkkönen

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 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

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

We show injectivity of the X-ray transform and the $d$-plane Radon transform for distributions on the $n$-torus, lowering the regularity assumption in the recent work by Abouelaz and Rouvi\`ere. We also show solenoidal injectivity of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-21 Joonas Ilmavirta

A solenoidal manifold is the inverse limit space of a tower of proper coverings of a compact manifold. In this work, we introduce new invariants for solenoidal manifolds, their asymptotic Steinitz orders and their prime spectra, and show…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-03-12 Steven Hurder , Olga Lukina

We reduce the broken ray transform on some Riemannian manifolds (with corners) to the geodesic ray transform on another manifold, which is obtained from the original one by reflection. We give examples of this idea and present injectivity…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-21 Joonas Ilmavirta

In this work, we prove a new decomposition result for rank $m$ symmetric tensor fields which generalizes the well known solenoidal and potential decomposition of tensor fields. This decomposition is then used to describe the kernel and to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Rohit Kumar Mishra , Suman Kumar Sahoo

The X-ray transform on the periodic slab $[0,1]\times\mathbb T^n$, $n\geq0$, has a non-trivial kernel due to the symmetry of the manifold and presence of trapped geodesics. For tensor fields gauge freedom increases the kernel further, and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-06 Joonas Ilmavirta , Gunther Uhlmann

A central objective in inverse problems arising in integral geometry is to understand the kernel characterization, inversion formulas, stability estimates, range characterization, and unique continuation properties of integral transforms.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Rohit Kumar Mishra , Chandni Thakkar

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

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 consider the geodesic X-ray transform acting on solenoidal tensor fields on a compact simply connected manifold with strictly convex boundary and non-positive curvature. We establish a stability estimate of the form $L^2\mapsto…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-21 Gabriel P. Paternain , Mikko Salo

We study the geodesic X-ray transform on Cartan-Hadamard manifolds, and prove solenoidal injectivity of this transform acting on functions and tensor fields of any order. The functions are assumed to be exponentially decaying if the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-06 Jere Lehtonen , Jesse Railo , Mikko Salo

The main goal of the paper is to prove the sandwich theorem for geodesic convex functions in a complete Riemannian manifold. Then by using this theorem we have proved an inequality in a manifold with bounded sectional curvature. Finally, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-25 Absos Ali Shaikh , Ravi P. Agarwal , Chandan Kumar Mondal

We establish a second order smooth variational principle valid for functions defined on (possibly infinite-dimensional) Riemannian manifolds which are uniformly locally convex and have a strictly positive injectivity radius and bounded…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Daniel Azagra , Robb Fry

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