A support theorem for the geodesic ray transform of symmetric tensor fields

DOI10.3934/IPI.2009.3.453MaRDI QIDQ2268309zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Venkateswaran P. Krishnan, Plamen Stefanov

Publication date 10 March 2010

Published in Inverse Problems and Imaging (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0803.3062

zbMATH Keywords

geodesic ray transformintegral geometrysupport theoremtensorsX ray transform

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inverse problems for PDEs (35R30) Radon transform (44A12) Integral geometry (53C65)

Abstract: Let $(M,g)$ be a simple Riemannian manifold with boundary and consider the geodesic ray transform of symmetric 2-tensor fields. Let the integral of $f$ along maximal geodesics vanish on an appropriate open subset of the space of geodesics in $M$. Under the assumption that the metric $g$ is real-analytic, it is shown that there exists a vector field $v$ satisfying $f=dv$ on the set of points lying on these geodesics and $v=0$ on the intersection of this set with the boundary $PDM$ of the manifold $M$. Using this result, a Helgason's type of a support theorem for the geodesic ray transform is proven. The approach is based on analytic microlocal techniques.

Review text

Consider a simple Riemannian manifold \(M\) with boundary and the geodesic ray transform of symmetric 2-tensor fields. Assume that the integral of such a field \(f\) along maximal geodesics vanishes on an appropriate open subset of the space of geodesics in \(M\). In the paper under review, it is shown that, if the metric in \(M\) is real-analytic, then there is a vector field \(v\) satisfying \(f=dv\) on the set of points lying on these geodesics, and, \(v=0\) on the intersection of this set with the boundary of \(M\). Using this result, a type of Helgason's support theorem for the geodesic ray transform is proven. The proofs involve analytic microlocal analysis and rely on the techniques introduced by P. Stefanov and G. Uhlmann in 2004--2008.

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