Invariant distributions and tensor tomography for Gaussian thermostats (Q1688598)

The paper consists of eight sections, discusses Gaussian thermostats and includes recent researches on the tensor tomography problem for Gaussian thermostats. The thermostat ray transform, in reference to Gaussian thermostats, is explained and invariant distributions are studied. The Pestov identity and alpha-controlled thermostats for closed and compact surfaces are established. Under certain prescribed assumptions, the surjectivity of the adjoint of the thermostat ray transform of \(I_0^\ast\) and \(I_1^\ast\), in terms of the existence of invariant distributions, are employed, which proves certain results in Sections 4 and 5. In Sections 6 and 7, injectivity for operators and that for \(I_m\) of the thermostat ray transform for closed and compact Riemannian surfaces are proved. Gaussian thermostat on both closed and compact surfaces with boundary, together with their conditions are established in the last section of the paper, using distribution spaces.