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In this article we consider the anisotropic Calderon problem and related inverse problems. The approach is based on limiting Carleman weights, introduced in Kenig-Sjoestrand-Uhlmann (Ann. of Math. 2007) in the Euclidean case. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-13 D. Dos Santos Ferreira , C. E. Kenig , M. Salo , G. Uhlmann

In this paper, we study the relation between geodesic and harmonic mappings. Harmonic mappings are defined between Riemannian manifolds as critical points of the energy functional, on the other hand, geodesic mappings are defined in a more…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-11-01 Stanislav Hronek

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

We consider Calderon's inverse problem with partial data in dimensions $n \geq 3$. If the inaccessible part of the boundary satisfies a (conformal) flatness condition in one direction, we show that this problem reduces to the invertibility…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Carlos E. Kenig , Mikko Salo

An inverse scattering problem for the 3D acoustic equation in time domain is considered. The unknown spatially distributed speed of sound is the subject of the solution of this problem. A single location of the point source is used. Using a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-01-01 Michael V. Klibanov , Jingzhi Li , Wenlong Zhang

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

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 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

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

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

We prove a sharp $L^2\to H^{1/2}$ stability estimate for the geodesic X-ray transform of tensor fields of order $0$, $1$ and $2$ on a simple Riemannian manifold with a suitable chosen $H^{1/2}$ norm. We show that such an estimate holds for…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-12 Yernat Assylbekov , Plamen Stefanov

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

In this article we study the linearized anisotropic Calder\'on problem on a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary. This problem amounts to showing that products of pairs of harmonic functions of the manifold form a complete set. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-15 Katya Krupchyk , Tony Liimatainen , Mikko Salo

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

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

Geodesic metric spaces support a variety of averaging constructions for given finite sets. Computing such averages has generated extensive interest in diverse disciplines. Here we consider the inverse problem of recognizing computationally…

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The method of Hamilton-Jacobi is used to obtain geodesics around non- Riemannian planar torsional defects.It is shown that by perturbation expansion in the Cartan torsion the geodesics obtained are parabolic curves along the plane x-z when…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 L. C. Garcia de Andrade

We study the microlocal properties of the geodesic X-ray transform $\mathcal{X}$ on a manifold with boundary allowing the presence of conjugate points. Assuming that there are no self-intersecting geodesics and all conjugate pairs are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-02-24 Sean Holman , Gunther Uhlmann

We show that on a two-dimensional compact nontrapping Riemannian manifold with strictly convex boundary, a piecewise constant function can be recovered from its integrals over geodesics. We adapt the injectivity proof which uses variations…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-20 Vadim Lebovici

In this paper we consider the geodesic X-ray transform with attenuation coefficient as a combination of smooth complex function and 1-form. We show that attenuated X-ray transform applied to the pair of tensors is injective modulo the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-03-07 Yernat M. Assylbekov