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Title The geodesic X-ray transform on Riemannian surfaces

Name Plamen Stefanov
Country USA
Email stefanov@math.purdue.edu
Co-Author(s) F. Monard and G. Uhlmann
Submit Time 2014-02-24 13:10:51
Session
Special Session 55: Microlocal analysis and The inverse conductivity problem
Contents
We study the geodesic X-ray transform $X$ on compact Riemannian surfaces with conjugate points. Regardless of the type of the conjugate points, we show that we cannot recover the singularities and therefore, this transform is always unstable. We describe the microlocal kernel of $X$ and relate it to the conjugate locus. We present numerical examples illustrating the cancellation of singularities.