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We consider the Radon transform along lines in an $n$ dimensional vector space over the two element field. It is well known that this transform is injective and highly overdetermined. We classify the minimal collections of lines for which…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-10 Eric L. Grinberg

In this paper we consider the Gaussian thermostat ray transform on both closed Riemannian surfaces and compact Riemannian surfaces with boundary. We establish certain results on the injectivity of the thermostat ray transform and the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-10 Yernat M. Assylbekov , Hanming Zhou

In this short note, we study the injectivity radius bound for three dimensional complete and non-compact Riemannian manifold with good leaf foliations and with bounded curvature up to first order. We obtain the injectivity bound by using…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-03-18 Li Ma

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

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

We study biharmonic maps between Riemannian manifolds with finite energy and finite bi-energy. We show that if the domain is complete and the target of non-positive curvature, then such a map is harmonic. We then give applications to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-10-02 Nobumitsu Nakauchi , Hajime Urakawa , Sigmundur Gudmundsson

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 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

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

In this article, the ray tracing method is studied beyond the classical geometrical theory. The trajectories are here regarded as geodesics in a Riemannian manifold, whose metric and topological properties are those induced by the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-07-24 Enrico De Micheli , Giovanni Alberto Viano

The geodesic ray transform, the mixed ray transform and the transverse ray transform of a tensor field on a manifold can all be seen as what we call mixing ray transforms, compositions of the geodesic ray transform and an invertible linear…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Joonas Ilmavirta , Keijo Mönkkönen , Jesse Railo

In this note, we prove that for a complete noncompact three dimensional Riemannian manifold with bounded sectional curvature, if it has uniformly positive scalar curvature, then there is a uniform lower bound on the injectivity radius.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-02-24 Conghan Dong

Consider a compact Riemannian manifold in dimension $n\geq 3$ with strictly convex boundary. We show that the transverse ray transform of $1$ tensors and the mixed ray transform of $1+1$ tensors are invertible, up to natural obstructions,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-18 Gunther Uhlmann , Jian Zhai

Considering Riemannian submersions, we find necessary and sufficient conditions for when sub-Riemannian normal geodesics project to curves of constant first geodesic curvature or constant first and vanishing second geodesic curvatures. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-18 Mauricio Godoy Molina , Erlend Grong , Irina Markina

We study higher-rank Radon transforms that take functions on $j$-dimensional totally geodesic submanifolds in the $n$-dimensional real constant curvature space to functions on similar submanifolds of dimension $k >j$. The corresponding dual…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-17 Boris Rubin

We introduce the notion of translational Riemannian manifolds and define a Gauss map for orientable immersed hypersurfaces lying in these ambients, an associated translational curvature and prove a Gauss-Bonnet theorem. We also use this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-16 Eduardo R. Longa , Jaime B. Ripoll

In this work we study the general system of geodesic equations for the case of a massive particle moving on an arbitrary curved manifold. The investigation is carried out from the symmetry perspective. By exploiting the parametrization…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-05 N. Dimakis , Petros A. Terzis , T. Christodoulakis

We present an example of a complete Riemannian plane with precisely two injective geodesics - up to reparameterization. The example arises as a perturbation of a surface of revolution with contracting end. The last section is devoted to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-19 Victor Bangert , Stefan Suhr

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

In this paper we show that on a complete Riemannian manifold of negative curvature and dimension $n>1$ every two points which realize a local maximum for the distance function are connected by at least $2n+1$ geometrically distinct geodesic…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2016-08-31 Paul Horja