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The Broken Ray Transform in $n$ Dimensions with Flat Reflecting Boundary

Analysis of PDEs 2016-07-28 v2

Abstract

We study the broken ray transform on nn-dimensional Euclidean domains where the reflecting parts of the boundary are flat and establish injectivity and stability under certain conditions. Given a subset EE of the boundary Ω\partial \Omega such that ΩE\partial \Omega \setminus E is itself flat (contained in a union of hyperplanes), we measure the attenuation of all broken rays starting and ending at EE with the standard optical reflection rule applied to ΩE\partial \Omega \setminus E. By localizing the measurement operator around broken rays which reflect off a fixed sequence of flat hyperplanes, we can apply the analytic microlocal approach of Frigyik, Stefanov, and Uhlmann for the ordinary ray transform by means of a local path unfolding. This generalizes the author's previous result for the square, although we can no longer treat reflections from corner points. Similar to the result for the two dimensional square, we show that the normal operator is a classical pseudo differential operator of order -1 plus a smoothing term with C0C_{0}^{\infty} Schwartz kernel.

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@article{arxiv.1310.7156,
  title  = {The Broken Ray Transform in $n$ Dimensions with Flat Reflecting Boundary},
  author = {Mark Hubenthal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.7156},
  year   = {2016}
}

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22 pages, 5 figures

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