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Tensor tomography on surfaces

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We show that on simple surfaces the geodesic ray transform acting on solenoidal symmetric tensor fields of arbitrary order is injective. This solves a long standing inverse problem in the two-dimensional case.

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M.S. was supported in part by the Academy of Finland, and G.U. was partly supported by NSF and a Rothschild Distinguished Visiting Fellowship at the Isaac Newton Institute. The authors would like to express their gratitude to the Newton Institute and the organizers of the program on Inverse Problems in 2011 where this work was carried out. They would also like to thank the referees for their constructive and useful comments.

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  1. Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0WB, UK

    Gabriel P. Paternain

  2. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Jyväskylä, 40014, Jyväskylä, Finland

    Mikko Salo

  3. Department of Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195-4350, USA

    Gunther Uhlmann

  4. Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA

    Gunther Uhlmann

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Paternain, G.P., Salo, M. & Uhlmann, G. Tensor tomography on surfaces. Invent. math. 193, 229–247 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00222-012-0432-1

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