The geodesic ray transform on Riemannian surfaces with conjugate points (Q2346860)

The geodesic X-ray transform on a compact Riemannian surface with conjugate points, along with different dimension is studied. The properties of conjugate points, conjugate locus, fold conjugate vectors, including blowdown conditions are discussed in Section 2. In presence of conjugate points, the Bolker condition fails and with singularities the transform cannot be recovered. Based on specific properties of the fold conjugate points, the X-ray transform on compact Riemannian surfaces is analyzed with Fourier Integral Operators (FIO). Numerical examples, illustrating the cancellation of singularities, are given in Section 4. The geodesic attenuated X-ray transform with positive attenuation is well posed, and there are of more than two conjugate points along each geodesic. But to resolve the singularities at three or more conjugate points, the transform is still ill-posed (unstable). Numerically, the analysis of attenuated X-ray transform is employed and studied with conjugate points.