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We consider the boundary rigidity problem for asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds. We show injectivity of the X-ray transform in several cases and consider the non-linear inverse problem which consists of recovering a metric from boundary…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-09-18 C. Robin Graham , Colin Guillarmou , Plamen Stefanov , Gunther Uhlmann

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

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

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

Given a smooth Hermitian vector bundle $\mathcal{E}$ over a closed Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$, we study generic properties of unitary connections $\nabla^{\mathcal{E}}$ on the vector bundle $\mathcal{E}$. First of all, we show that twisted…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-20 Mihajlo Cekić , Thibault Lefeuvre

Under the assumption that the X-ray transform over symmetric solenoidal 2-tensors is injective, we prove that smooth compact connected manifolds with strictly convex boundary, no conjugate points and a hyperbolic trapped set are locally…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-08 Thibault Lefeuvre

Under a convexity assumption on the boundary we solve a local inverse problem, namely we show that the geodesic X-ray transform can be inverted locally in a stable manner; one even has a reconstruction formula. We also show that under an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-10-09 Gunther Uhlmann , András Vasy

We prove for the first time a pointwise lower estimate of the normal injectivity radius of an embedded hypersurface in an arbitrary Riemannian manifold. Main applications include: (i) a pointwise lower estimate of the graphing radius of a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Sebastian Boldt , Batu Güneysu , Stefano Pigola

In this article we introduce an approach for studying the geodesic X-ray transform and related geometric inverse problems by using Carleman estimates. The main result states that on compact negatively curved manifolds (resp. nonpositively…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-29 Gabriel P. Paternain , Mikko Salo

We study a generalized boundary rigidity problem, which investigates whether the areas of embedded minimal surfaces can uniquely determine a Riemannian manifold with boundary. We prove that for a conformal perturbation of an analytic metric…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Leonard Busch , Tony Liimatainen , Mikko Salo , Leo Tzou

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 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

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

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

Let $\Sigma$ be a smooth compact connected oriented surface with boundary. A metric on $\Sigma$ is said to be of Anosov type if it has strictly convex boundary, no conjugate points, and a hyperbolic trapped set. We prove that two metrics of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-12-25 Alena Erchenko , Thibault Lefeuvre

We consider the nonlinear problem of determining a connection and a Higgs field from the corresponding parallel transport along geodesics on a Riemannian manifold with boundary, in any dimension. The problem can be reduced to an integral…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-18 Hanming Zhou

We prove that in closed almost complex manifolds of any dimension, generic perturbations of the almost complex structure suffice to achieve transversality for all unbranched multiple covers of simple pseudoholomorphic curves with…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-04 Chris Gerig , Chris Wendl

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 show that a space with a finite asymptotic dimension is embeddable in a non-positively curved manifold. Then we prove that if a uniformly contractible manifold X is uniformly embeddable in $\R^n$ or non-positively curved n-dimensional…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 A. N. Dranishnikov

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