Unique continuation of the normal operator of the x-ray transform and applications in geophysics

DOI10.1088/1361-6420/AB6E75zbMATH Open1477.44002arXiv1909.05585OpenAlexW3002711191WikidataQ108775020 ScholiaQ108775020MaRDI QIDQ5000588FDOQ5000588

Joonas Ilmavirta, Keijo Mönkkönen

Publication date: 14 July 2021

Published in: Inverse Problems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that the normal operator of the X-ray transform in $mathbb{R}^d$, $dgeq2$, has a unique continuation property in the class of compactly supported distributions. This immediately implies uniqueness for the X-ray tomography problem with partial data and generalizes some earlier results to higher dimensions. Our proof also gives a unique continuation property for certain Riesz potentials in the space of rapidly decreasing distributions. We present applications to local and global seismology. These include linearized travel time tomography with half-local data and global tomography based on shear wave splitting in a weakly anisotropic elastic medium.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.05585

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zbMATH Keywords

inverse problemsunique continuationnormal operatortheoretical seismologyx-ray tomography

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inverse problems in geophysics (86A22) Radon transform (44A12) Integral transforms in distribution spaces (46F12)

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