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We study ray transforms on spherically symmetric manifolds with a piecewise $C^{1,1}$ metric. Assuming the Herglotz condition, the X-ray transform is injective on the space of $L^2$ functions on such manifolds. We also prove injectivity…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-11-22 Maarten V. de Hoop , Joonas Ilmavirta

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 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

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

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

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

In this paper, partly based on Zachos' PhD thesis, we show that the geodesic X-ray transform is stably invertible near infinity on a class of asymptotically conic manifolds which includes perturbations of Euclidean space. In particular…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-02 András Vasy , Evangelie Zachos

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 consider spaces of smooth immersed plane curves (modulo translations and/or rotations), equipped with reparameterization invariant weak Riemannian metrics involving second derivatives. This includes the full $H^2$-metric without zero…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-11-12 Martin Bauer , Martins Bruveris , Peter W. Michor

We prove the local invertibility, up to potential fields, and stability of the geodesic X-ray transform on tensor fields of order 1 and 2 near a strictly convex boundary point, on manifolds with boundary of dimension n>=3. We also present…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-10-21 Plamen Stefanov , Gunther Uhlmann , András Vasy

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

We show that the Radon transform related to closed geodesics is injective on a Lie group if and only if the connected components are not homeomorphic to $S^1$ nor to $S^3$. This is true for both smooth functions and distributions. The key…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-21 Joonas Ilmavirta

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

In this article, we study a restricted mixed ray transform acting on second-order tensor fields in 3-dimensional Euclidean space and prove the invertibility of this integral transform using microlocal techniques. Here, the mixed ray…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Chandni Thakkar

We show that on simple surfaces the geodesic ray transform acting on solenoidal symmetric tensor fields of arbitrary order is injective. This solves a long standing inverse problem in the two-dimensional case.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-11-13 Gabriel P. Paternain , Mikko Salo , Gunther Uhlmann

This paper is the first in a series of two articles whose aim is to extend a recent result of Guillarmou-Lefeuvre on the local rigidity of the marked length spectrum from the case of compact negatively-curved Riemannian manifolds to the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-11-30 Yannick Guedes Bonthonneau , Thibault Lefeuvre

We prove local injectivity near a boundary point for the geodesic X-ray transform for an asymptotically hyperbolic metric even mod $O(\rho^5)$ in dimensions three and higher.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-01-11 Nikolas Eptaminitakis , C. Robin Graham

We study the X-ray transform over a generic family of smooth curves in $\mathbb{R}^2$ with a Riemannian metric $g$. We show that the singularities cannot be recovered from local data in the presence of conjugate points, and therefore…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Yang Zhang

In this paper, we consider the inverse problem of determining an unknown function defined in three space dimensions from its geodesic X-ray transform. The standard X-ray transform is defined on the Euclidean metric and is given by the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-27 Tak Shing Au Yeung , Eric T. Chung , Gunther Uhlmann

Consider a compact Riemannian manifold in dimension $n\geq 3$ with strictly convex boundary. We show that the transverse ray transform of $1$ tensors and the mixed ray transform of $1+1$ tensors are invertible, up to natural obstructions,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-18 Gunther Uhlmann , Jian Zhai