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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 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

We show that the attenuated geodesic ray transform on two dimensional simple surfaces is injective. Moreover we give a stability estimate and develop a reconstruction procedure.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-04-15 Mikko Salo , Gunther Uhlmann

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

We prove that the L^2 Riemannian metric on the manifold of all smooth Riemannian metrics on a fixed closed, finite-dimensional manifold induces a metric space structure. As the L^2 metric is a weak Riemannian metric, this fact does not…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-11-09 Brian Clarke

The X-ray transform on the plane or on the three-dimensional Euclidean space can be considered as the measurements of CT scanners for normal human tissue. If the human body contains metal regions such as dental implants, stents in blood…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Hiroyuki Chihara

We initiate a study of the inversion of the geodesic X-ray transform $I_m$ over symmetric $m$-tensor fields on asymptotically hyperbolic surfaces. This operator has a non-trivial kernel whenever $m\ge 1$. To propose a gauge representative…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Nikolas Eptaminitakis , François Monard , Yuzhou Joey Zou

Let $L^2$ be the Lebesgue space of square-integrable functions on the unit circle. We show that the injectivity problem for Toeplitz operators is linked to the existence of geodesics in the Grassmann manifold of $L^2$. We also investigate…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-23 Esteban Andruchow , Eduardo Chiumiento , Gabriel Larotonda

For a one-parameter family of simple metrics of constant curvature ($4\kappa$ for $\kappa\in (-1,1)$) on the unit disk $M$, we first make explicit the Pestov-Uhlmann range characterization of the geodesic X-ray transform, by constructing a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-26 Rohit Kumar Mishra , François Monard

We show that on a two-dimensional compact nontrapping manifold with strictly convex boundary, a piecewise constant function is determined by its integrals over geodesics. In higher dimensions, we obtain a similar result if the manifold…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-02-27 Joonas Ilmavirta , Jere Lehtonen , Mikko Salo

Let g be a scattering metric on a compact manifold X with boundary, i.e., a smooth metric giving the interior of X the structure of a complete Riemannian manifold with asymptotically conic ends. An example is any compactly supported…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Andrew Hassell , Jared Wunsch

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

This work gives an expository account of certain applications of microlocal analysis in three geometric inverse problems. We will discuss the geodesic X-ray transform inverse problem, the Gelfand problem for the wave equation on a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-14 Mikko Salo

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

The geodesic orbit property is useful and interesting in itself, and it plays a key role in Riemannian geometry. It implies homogeneity and has important classes of Riemannian manifolds as special cases. Those classes include weakly…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Zhiqi Chen , Yuri Nikolayevsky , Joseph A. Wolf , Shaoxiang Zhang

We study the problem of proper discretizing and sampling issues related to geodesic X-ray transforms on simple surfaces, and illustrate the theory on simple geodesic disks of constant curvature. Given a notion of band limit on a function,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-12-07 François Monard , Plamen Stefanov

In this paper we prove that the compact Lie group $G_2$ admits a left-invariant Einstein metric that is not geodesic orbit. In order to prove the required assertion, we develop some special tools for geodesic orbit Riemannian manifolds. It…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-19 Yu. G. Nikonorov

We study the geodesic X-ray transform on Cartan-Hadamard manifolds, and prove solenoidal injectivity of this transform acting on functions and tensor fields of any order. The functions are assumed to be exponentially decaying if the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-06 Jere Lehtonen , Jesse Railo , Mikko Salo

If $d$ is a boundary defining function for the Euclidean unit disk and $I$ denotes the geodesic X-ray transform, for $\gamma\in (-1,1)$, we study the singularly-weighted X-ray transforms $I_m d^\gamma$ acting on symmetric $m$-tensors. For…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-13 Jonathan Kay , François Monard

It has been shown in [Pa1] that on a simple, compact Riemannian 2-manifold the attenuated geodesic ray transform, with attenuation given by a connection and Higgs field, is injective on functions and 1-forms modulo the natural obstruction.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-03-29 Gareth Ainsworth