The broken ray transform on the square (Q485280)

This paper deals with a particular broken ray transform on the Euclidean unit square and establishes injectivity and stability for \(C_{0}^{2}\)-perturbations of a vanishing absorption parameter \(\sigma \equiv 0\). Using the analytic microlocal approach [\textit{B. Frigyik} et al., J. Geom. Anal. 18, No. 1, 89--108 (2008; Zbl 1148.53055)] for the X-ray transform on geometric families of curves, the author demonstrates injectivity via a path unfolding argument under suitable conditions on the available broken rays. First, he describes the problem with notations and then states the main results. Then he deals with the unattenuated case. Subsequently, he deals with the broken ray transform with general attenuation and states a stability result for attenuation coefficients close to zero in \(C_{0}^{2}\). Details required to prove the stability estimate of the inverse problem are given. The results are extended to study the stability estimate and injectivity to \(C^2\)-perturbations of the attenuation \(\sigma\).