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Consider a broken geodesics $\alpha([0,l])$ on a compact Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ with boundary of dimension $n\geq 3$. The broken geodesics are unions of two geodesics with the property that they have a common end point. Assume that for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yaroslav Kurylev , Matti Lassas , Gunther Uhlmann

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

The circular Radon transform integrates a function over the set of all spheres with a given set of centers. The problem of injectivity of this transform (as well as inversion formulas, range descriptions, etc.) arises in many fields from…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Gaik Ambartsoumian , Peter Kuchment

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

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

The paper surveys open problems and questions related to geodesics defined by Riemannian, Finsler, semi Riemannian and magnetic structures on manifolds.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-03 Keith Burns , Vladimir S. Matveev

We consider the attenuated geodesic ray transform defined on pairs of symmetric $2$-tensors and $1$-forms on a simple Riemannian manifold. We prove injectivity and stability results for a class of generic simple metrics and attenuations…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-18 Yernat M. Assylbekov

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

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

The closed form solution for the geodesics of classical particles in SdS space are obtained in terms of hyperelliptic modular functions and multiple hypergeometric functions. The closed form solution for the five roots of the fifth degree…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Richard J. Drociuk

This note constructs a compact, real-analytic, riemannian 4-manifold ({\Sigma}, g) with the properties that: (1) its geodesic flow is completely integrable with smooth but not real-analytic integrals; (2) {\Sigma} is diffeomorphic to $T^2…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-10-04 Leo T. Butler

A survey on recent developments in (algebraic) integral geometry is given. The main focus lies on algebraic structures on the space of translation invariant valuations and applications in integral geometry.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-04-04 Andreas Bernig

We establish an equivalence principle between the solenoidal injectivity of the geodesic ray transform acting on symmetric $m$-tensors and the existence of invariant distributions or smooth first integrals with prescribed projection over…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-25 Gabriel P. Paternain , Hanming Zhou

This article presents an overview of robot learning and adaptive control applications that can benefit from a joint use of Riemannian geometry and probabilistic representations. The roles of Riemannian manifolds, geodesics and parallel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Sylvain Calinon

This entry contains the core material of my habilitation thesis, soon to be officially submitted. It provides a self-contained presentation of the original results in this thesis, in addition to their detailed proofs. The motivation of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-27 Salem Said

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

Let $(M,g)$ be a simple Riemannian manifold. Under the assumption that the metric $g$ is real-analytic, it is shown that if the geodesic ray transform of a function $f\in L^{2}(M)$ vanishes on an appropriate open set of geodesics, then…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-03-29 V. Krishnan

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

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

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