The geodesic X-ray transform with fold caustics

DOI10.2140/APDE.2012.5.219MaRDI QIDQ1951724zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gunther Uhlmann, Plamen Stefanov

Publication date 24 May 2013

Published in Analysis \& PDE (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1004.1007, http://msp.org/apde/2012/5-2/p01.xhtml

zbMATH Keywords

integral geometrycausticsconjugate pointsgeodesic X-ray transform

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Radon transform (44A12) Integral geometry (53C65) Pseudodifferential operators and other generalizations of partial differential operators (35S99) Pseudodifferential and Fourier integral operators on manifolds (58J40)

Abstract: We give a detailed microlocal study of X-ray transforms over geodesics-like families of curves with conjugate points of fold type. We show that the normal operator is the sum of a pseudodifferential operator and a Fourier integral operator. We compute the principal symbol of both operators and the canonical relation associated to the Fourier integral operator. In two dimensions, for the geodesic transform, we show that there is always a cancellation of singularities to some order, and we give an example where that order is infinite; therefore the normal operator is not microlocally invertible in that case. In the case of three dimensions or higher if the canonical relation is a local canonical graph we show microlocal invertibility of the normal operator. Several examples are also studied.

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