X-ray transforms in pseudo-Riemannian geometry

DOI10.1007/S12220-017-9834-ZMaRDI QIDQ1742958zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Joonas Ilmavirta

Publication date 12 April 2018

Published in The Journal of Geometric Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.03063, http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-201902131490

zbMATH Keywords

inverse problemsray transformsnull geodesicspseudo-Riemannian manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Radon transform (44A12) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Quadratic and bilinear Diophantine equations (11D09)

Abstract: We study the problem of recovering a function on a pseudo-Riemannian manifold from its integrals over all null geodesics in three geometries: pseudo-Riemannian products of Riemannian manifolds, Minkowski spaces and tori. We give proofs of uniqueness anc characterize non-uniqueness in different settings. Reconstruction is sometimes possible if the signature $(n_1,n_2)$ satisfies $n_{1}geq1$ and $n_{2}geq2$ or vice versa and always when $n_1,n_{2}geq2$. The proofs are based on a Pestov identity adapted to null geodesics (product manifolds) and Fourier analysis (other geometries). The problem in a Minkowski space of any signature is a special case of recovering a function in a Euclidean space from its integrals over all lines with any given set of admissible directions, and we describe sets of lines for which this is possible. Characterizing the kernel of the null geodesic ray transform on tori reduces to solvability of certain Diophantine systems.

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