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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

Given a Lorentzian manifold, the light ray transform of a function is its integrals along null geodesics. This paper is concerned with the injectivity of the light ray transform on functions and tensors, up to the natural gauge for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-10 Ali Feizmohammadi , Joonas Ilmavirta , Lauri Oksanen

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

The X-ray transform on a compact symmetric space M is here inverted by means of an explicit inversion formula. The proof uses the conjugacy of the minimal closed geodesics in M and of the maximally curved totally geodesic spheres in M,…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sigurdur Helgason

We consider the broken ray transform on Riemann surfaces in the presence of an obstacle, following earlier work of Mukhometov. If the surface has nonpositive curvature and the obstacle is strictly convex, we show that a function is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-21 Joonas Ilmavirta , Mikko Salo

We explain the main concepts centered around Sharafutdinov's ray transform, its kernel, and the extent to which it can be inverted. It is shown how the ray transform emerges naturally in any attempt to reconstruct optical and stress tensors…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Hammer , B. Lionheart

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

We study the light ray transform acting on tensors on a stationary Lorentzian manifold. Our main result is injectivity up to the natural obstruction as long as the associated magnetic vector field satisfies a finite degree property with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-07 Lauri Oksanen , Gabriel P. Paternain , Miika Sarkkinen

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

Starting from well-known absolute instruments for perfect imaging, we introduce a type of rotational-symmetrical compact closed manifolds, namely geodesic lenses. We demonstrate that light rays confined on geodesic lenses are closed…

Optics · Physics 2018-02-01 Lin Xu , Xiangyang Wang , Tomáš Tyc , Chong Sheng , Shining Zhu , Hui Liu , Huanyang Chen

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

Assume (M,g,\Omega) is a closed, oriented Riemannian surface equipped with an Anosov magnetic flow. We establish certain results on the surjectivity of the adjoint of the magnetic ray transform, and use these to prove the injectivity of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-11-06 Gareth Ainsworth

We prove a uniqueness result for the broken ray transform acting on the sums of functions and $1$-forms on surfaces in the presence of an external force and a reflecting obstacle. We assume that the considered twisted geodesic flows have…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-09 Shubham R. Jathar , Manas Kar , Jesse Railo

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

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

We show injectivity of the geodesic X-ray transform on piecewise constant functions when the transform is weighted by a continuous matrix weight. The manifold is assumed to be compact and nontrapping of any dimension, and in dimension three…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-10-23 Joonas Ilmavirta , Jesse Railo

We prove solenoidal injectivity for the geodesic X-ray transform of tensor fields on simple Riemannian manifolds with $C^{1,1}$ metrics and non-positive sectional curvature. The proof of the result rests on Pestov energy estimates for a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-15 Joonas Ilmavirta , Antti Kykkänen

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

We consider the X-ray transform in a projective space over a finite field. It is well known (after E. Bolker) that this transform is injective. We formulate an analog of I.M. Gelfand's admissibility problem for the Radon transform, which…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-26 David V. Feldman , Eric L. Grinberg

The present article proposes a partial answer to the explicit inversion of the tensor tomography problem in two dimensions, by proving injectivity over certain kinds of tensors and providing reconstruction formulas for them. These tensors…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-18 François Monard