"This up-to-date treatment of recent developments in geometric inverse problems introduces graduate students and researchers to an exciting area of research. With an emphasis on the two-dimensional case, topics covered include geodesic X-ray transforms, boundary rigidity, tensor tomography, attenuated X-ray transforms and the Calderâon problem. The presentation is self-contained and begins with the Radon transform and radial sound speeds as motivating examples. The required geometric background is developed in detail in the context of simple manifolds with boundary. An in-depth analysis of various geodesic X-ray transforms is carried out together with related uniqueness, stability, reconstruction and range characterization results. Highlights include a proof of boundary rigidity for simple surfaces as well as scattering rigidity for connections. The concluding section discusses current open problems and related topics. The numerous exercises and examples make this book an excellent self-study resource or text for a onesemester course or seminar"--
Gabriel P. Paternain is Professor of Mathematics at the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College. His research has covered an ample mathematical landscape, including Hamiltonian dynamics, symplectic geometry and geometric inverse problems. He is the author of the monograph 'Geodesic Flows' (1999), and was awarded the Pilkington Teaching Prize at Cambridge for his ability to explain analysis and geometry with a clarity that has won him the admiration and respect of his students.
Foreword András Vasy; Preface; 1. The Radon transform in the plane; 2. Radial sound speeds; 3. Geometric preliminaries; 4. The geodesic X-ray transform; 5. Regularity results for the transport equation; 6. Vertical Fourier analysis; 7. The X-ray transform in non-positive curvature; 8. Microlocal aspects, surjectivity of $I^{*}_{0}$; 9. Inversion formulas and range; 10. Tensor tomography; 11. Boundary rigidity; 12. The attenuated geodesic X-ray transform; 13. Non-Abelian X-ray transforms; 14. Non-Abelian X-ray transforms II; 15. Open problems and related topics; References; Index.