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In this paper we study the local magnetic ray transform of symmetric tensor fields up to rank two on a Riemannian manifold of dimension $\geq 3$ with boundary. In particular, we consider the magnetic ray transform of the combinations of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-14 Hanming Zhou

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

We prove injectivity and a support theorem for the X-ray transform on $2$-step nilpotent Lie groups with many totally geodesic $2$-dimensional flats. The result follows from a general reduction principle for manifolds with uniformly…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-19 Norbert Peyerimhoff , Evangelia Samiou

We study a solenoidal-potential type decomposition of a symmetric $m$-tensor field in $\Rb^2$, and its implications to injectivity questions for the momentum and elastic ray transforms. For symmetric tensor fields, a general decomposition…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Antti Kykkänen , Rohit Kumar Mishra , Suman Kumar Sahoo

We study a particular broken ray transform on the Euclidean unit square and establish injectivity and stability for $C_{0}^{2}$ perturbations of the constant unit weight. Given an open subset $E$ of the boundary, we measure the attenuation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-06-13 Mark Hubenthal

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

This paper studies the uniformly asymptotic stability of nonautonomous systems on Riemannian manifolds. We establish corresponding Lyapunov-type theorems (Theorems 2.1 and 2.2), extending classical Euclidean results (e.g., [9, Theorems 4.9…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Li Deng , Xin Li

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 PhD dissertation is concerned with integral geometric inverse problems. The geodesic ray transform is an operator that encodes the line integrals of a function along geodesics. The dissertation establishes many conditions when such…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-10-23 Jesse Railo

We derive explicit reconstruction formulas for the attenuated geodesic X-ray transform over functions and, in the case of non-vanishing attenuation, vector fields, on a class of simple Riemannian surfaces with boundary. These formulas…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-01 François Monard

Let $g$ be a Riemannian metric for $\mathbf{R}^d$ ($d\geq 3$) which differs from the Euclidean metric only in a smooth and strictly convex bounded domain $M$. The lens rigidity problem is concerned with recovering the metric $g$ inside $M$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-02-28 Gang Bao , Hai Zhang

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

This article considers inverse problems on closed Riemannian surfaces whose geodesic flow is Anosov. We prove spectral rigidity for any Anosov surface and injectivity of the geodesic ray transform on solenoidal 2-tensors. We also establish…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-04-29 Gabriel P. Paternain , Mikko Salo , Gunther Uhlmann

Let (M,g) be an analytic, compact, Riemannian manifold with boundary, of dimension n >= 2. We study a class of generalized Radon transforms, integrating over a family of hypersurfaces embedded in M, satisfying the Bolker condition [23].…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-06 Andrew Homan , Hanming Zhou

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 describe the range of the attenuated ray transform of a unitary connection on a simple surface acting on functions and 1-forms. We use this to determine the range of the ray transform acting on symmetric tensor fields.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-03 Gabriel P. Paternain , Mikko Salo , Gunther Uhlmann

In an earlier paper we discussed soldered forms, multivector fields and Riemannian metrics. In particular, we showed that a Riemannian submanifold is totally geodesic iff the metric is soldered to the submanifold. In the present note we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-07-01 Izu Vaisman

We present a reconstruction method that stably recovers the real valued, symmetric tensors compactly supported in the Euclidean plane, from knowledge of their attenuated momenta ray transform. The problem is recast as an inverse boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-09 Hiroshi Fujiwara , David Omogbhe , Kamran Sadiq , Alexandru Tamasan

In our previous works on deformation limits of projective and Moishezon manifolds, we introduced and made crucial use of the notion of strongly Gauduchon metrics as a reinforcement of the earlier notion of Gauduchon metrics. Using direct…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2010-09-29 Dan Popovici

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