Study shows how optimal transport behaves in higher dimensions.
problem Characterizing optimal transport in higher dimensions with Euclidean distance.
method Investigates the small regularization limit of entropic optimal transport.
result The limiting transport plan is supported on transport rays and uniquely minimizes a relative entropy functional.
Geometric optics describes wave behavior near convex obstacles.
problem Wave behavior near convex obstacles.
method Geometric optics in L2 and H1 spaces. result Oscillations transport along grazing rays to any order.
Solves open problem on simple surfaces with novel twistor correspondence.
problem Existence of nontrivial holomorphic vector bundles on simple surfaces.
method Novel twistor correspondence, Nash-Moser inverse function theorem, and microlocal analysis.
result Simple surface twistor space supports no nontrivial holomorphic vector bundles.
The paper studies ray transforms on surfaces with negative curvature, proving injectivity and determining connections and Higgs fields.
problem Injectivity of ray transforms on surfaces with negative curvature and determination of connections and Higgs fields.
method Analysis of Gaussian thermostats on compact Riemannian surfaces with negative curvature, proving injectivity and determining connections and Higgs fields.
result Injectivity of the thermostat ray transform and determination of connections and Higgs fields.
Quantitative metric spaces study function shapes and sphere diameters.
problem Understanding function shapes and sphere diameters in metric spaces.
method Quantitative analysis of transport-rays decompositions using localization method.
result Bounding the deficit between manifold and sphere diameters.
It is shown that curvature-dimension bounds CD(N, k) for a metric measure space (X,d,m) in the sense of Sturm imply a weak L^1- Poincare-inequality under some symmetry assumption on the choice of transport rays in the cut locus of (X,d). This condition is satisfied if (X,d) has m-almost surely no branching points.
Researchers find Busemann functions in Wasserstein space, enabling efficient projections and distances.
problem Defining Busemann functions in Wasserstein space for efficient data projections and distances.
method Investigated existence and computation of Busemann functions in Wasserstein space, establishing closed-form expressions for specific cases.
result Explicit projection schemes for probability distributions on \(\mathbb{R}\) enable novel Sliced-Wasserstein distances over Gaussian mixtures and labeled datasets.
Study improves Calderón problem for systems, uniquely determining connections and potentials.
problem Determining connections and potentials in systems from boundary measurements.
method Introduces complex ray transform and parallel transport, proving uniqueness.
result Uniquely determines (A,Q) up to natural gauge invariances. Study solves inverse problems for real principal type operators using unique data sets and ray transforms.
problem Determining coefficients in real principal type equations from boundary data.
method Unique data sets, bicharacteristic ray transforms, and propagation of singularities.
result Global uniqueness results for determining coefficients in nonlinear real principal type equations.
We consider integral geometry inverse problems for unitary connections and skew-Hermitian Higgs fields on manifolds with negative sectional curvature. The results apply to manifolds in any dimension, with or without boundary, and also in the presence of trapped geodesics. In the boundary case, we show injectivity of th…
Study geodesic X-ray transform and streaking artifacts on simple surfaces or spaces of constant curvature.
problem Streaking artifacts in CT images due to metal regions.
method Geodesic X-ray transform on nontrapping compact Riemannian manifolds with strictly convex boundaries.
result Streaking artifacts result from conormal singularities along common tangent geodesics.
Study proves solenoidal injectivity for tensor fields on curved manifolds with low regularity.
problem Injectivity for tensor fields on negatively curved manifolds with low regularity metrics.
method Pestov energy estimates for transport equation on non-smooth unit sphere bundle, keeping track of regularity, and using functions with more vertical than horizontal regularity.
result Proves solenoidal injectivity for tensor fields on simple Riemannian manifolds with C1,1 metrics and non-positive sectional curvature. Optimal Transport CycleGAN improves unsupervised learning in imaging problems.
problem Improving unsupervised learning in inverse problems using generative models.
method Developed an OT-cycleGAN architecture using a PLS cost with deep learning-based inverse path penalty.
result Distinct variations of cycleGAN architecture can be derived based on forward problem knowledge.
For homeland and transportation security applications, 2D X-ray explosive detection system (EDS) have been widely used, but they have limitations in recognizing 3D shape of the hidden objects. Among various types of 3D computed tomography (CT) systems to address this issue, this paper is interested in a stationary CT u…
On a Riemannian manifold with a positive lower bound on the Ricci tensor, the distance of isoperimetric sets from geodesic balls is quantitatively controlled in terms of the gap between the isoperimetric profile of the manifold and that of a round sphere of suitable radius. The deficit between the diameters of the mani…
Bayesian calibration for BCP self-assembly models using image data and measure transport.
problem Calibrating models of BCP self-assembly from image data with aleatory uncertainty.
method Likelihood-free inference via measure transport and summary statistics.
result Expected information gains can be computed efficiently for model calibration.
Study extends geodesic ray transform results to orientable surfaces.
problem Characterize and stabilize mixed and transverse ray transforms on surfaces.
method Algebraic arguments applied to various geometries and ray transforms.
result Characterization of kernel and stability for mixed and transverse ray transforms on orientable surfaces.
Ray-Singer torsion is a mathematical concept with applications in physics.
problem No specific problem stated in the abstract.
method No specific method stated in the abstract.
result No specific key result stated in the abstract.
We show that any grafting ray in Teichmüller space is (strongly) asymptotic to some Teichmüller geodesic ray. As an intermediate step we introduce surfaces that arise as limits of these degenerating Riemann surfaces. Given a grafting ray, the proof involves a Teichmüller ray with a conformally equivalent limit, and bui…
Survey on broken ray transforms and open problems.
problem Understanding broken ray transforms and their applications.
method Survey of recent developments and open problems.
result Discussion of open problems in broken ray transforms.
We reduce the broken ray transform on some Riemannian manifolds (with corners) to the geodesic ray transform on another manifold, which is obtained from the original one by reflection. We give examples of this idea and present injectivity results for the broken ray transform using corresponding earlier results for the …
We study rays and co-rays in the Wasserstein space Pp(X) (p>1) whose ambient space X is a complete, separable, non-compact, locally compact length space. We show that rays in the Wasserstein space can be represented as probability measures concentrated on the set of rays in the ambient spac…
New surfaces with conjugate points have global blow-down maps in their TT spaces.
problem Constructing global blow-down maps for surfaces with conjugate points.
method Explicit construction of a family of non-trapping Riemannian surfaces with global blow-down maps.
result Global blow-down maps exist for some non-simple surfaces with conjugate points.
Three disjoint rays in euclidean 3-space form Borromean rays provided their union is knotted, but the union of any two components is unknotted. We construct infinitely many Borromean rays, uncountably many of which are pairwise inequivalent. We obtain uncountably many Borromean hyperplanes.
Infinite clique of rays in plane minus Cantor set.
problem Understanding the mapping class group of plane minus Cantor set.
method Using a graph of loops and cliques of high-filling rays.
result Construction of an infinite clique of high-filling rays.
Study light ray transform in pseudo-Euclidean space, derive inversion formula, and prove stability.
problem Analyzing light ray transform in pseudo-Euclidean space.
method Investigate normal operator, derive inversion formula, analyze as Fourier Integral Operator.
result Derive an inversion formula and prove stability estimates.
Unique geodesics selected by energy minimization in Teichmüller space.
problem Finding a unique geodesic between points in Teichmüller space.
method Energy minimization of harmonic map rays, extending Thurston boundary.
result Selection of a unique Thurston geodesic through points in Teichmüller space.
The article recovers tensor fields from partial data using weighted divergent ray transforms.
problem Recovering tensor fields from partial data.
method Weighted divergent ray transforms, unique continuation property of fractional Laplacian, explicit reconstruction formulas.
result Recovery of symmetric m-tensor fields and unique continuation for vector fields and symmetric 2-tensor fields. Sharp mapping properties and regularization for X-ray transform on disks of constant curvature.
problem Sharp mapping properties and regularization of X-ray transform.
method Derive functional relations and mapping properties using elliptic differential operators.
result Theoretical possibility of regularized inversions for X-ray transform.
The ray graph is a Gromov hyperbolic graph on which the mapping class group of the plane minus a Cantor set acts by isometries. We give a description of the Gromov boundary of the ray graph in terms of cliques of long rays on the plane minus a Cantor set. As a consequence, we prove that the Gromov boundary of the ray g…
Regularity results for geodesic X-ray transform on nonsmooth manifolds
problem Geodesic X-ray transform on nonsmooth simple manifolds
method Symbol smoothing arguments and pseudodifferential operators with low regularity symbols
result Improved injectivity results for Lp functions Local X-ray transform works well near boundaries in hyperbolic spaces.
problem Injectivity of X-ray transform near boundaries for hyperbolic metrics.
method Local injectivity proof for geodesic X-ray transform on asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds.
result Local injectivity near a boundary point for X-ray transform in dimensions 3 and higher, up to O(ρ5). Paper shows invertibility of tensor X-ray transform on certain manifolds.
problem Invertibility of tensor X-ray transform on asymptotically conic manifolds.
method Used 1-cusp pseudodifferential operator algebra and modified solenoidal gauge condition.
result Invertibility of tensor X-ray transform up to natural obstruction.
New proofs of Donaldson-Uhlenbeck-Yau theorem using geodesic rays.
problem Donaldson-Uhlenbeck-Yau theorem implications
method Geodesic rays of Hermitian metrics
result New proofs of the theorem
We consider the nonlinear problem of determining a connection and a Higgs field from the corresponding parallel transport along geodesics on a Riemannian manifold with boundary, in any dimension. The problem can be reduced to an integral geometry question of some attenuated geodesic ray transform through a pseudolinear…
We consider the broken ray transform on Riemann surfaces in the presence of an obstacle, following earlier work of Mukhometov. If the surface has nonpositive curvature and the obstacle is strictly convex, we show that a function is determined by its integrals over broken geodesic rays that reflect on the boundary of th…
Study proves uniqueness for ray transform on surfaces with obstacles.
problem Uniqueness of functions and 1-forms on surfaces with reflecting obstacles.
method Broken ray transform on twisted geodesics with nonpositive curvature and reflecting boundary.
result Proves uniqueness result for sums of functions and 1-forms.
The study examines the asymptotic behavior of extremal length in Teichmüller space.
problem Understanding the asymptotic behavior of extremal length along Teichmüller rays.
method Analyzing the limit of extremal length and deriving formulas for limiting Teichmüller distance and detour metric.
result An explicit formula for the limiting Teichmüller distance and a necessary and sufficient condition for Teichmüller rays to be asymptotic.
The paper explores the injectivity of the light ray transform on Lorentzian manifolds.
problem Injectivity of the light ray transform on functions and tensors.
method Analyzes injectivity conditions for scalar and tensor fields on stationary and static Lorentzian manifolds.
result Injectivity of the light ray transform on functions and tensors is proven under specific conditions.
Local invertibility of ray transforms on convex manifolds.
problem Invertibility of ray transforms on compact Riemannian manifolds with strictly convex boundary.
method Local invertibility results for transverse and mixed ray transforms of 1 and 1+1 tensors.
result Local invertibility of ray transforms near boundary points, leading to global results.
This article contains a detailed study, in the toric case, of the test configuration geodesic rays defined by Phong-Sturm. We show that the `Bergman approximations' of Phong-Sturm converge in C^1 to the geodesic ray and that the geodesic ray itself is C^{1,1} and no better. The \kahler metrics associated to the geodesi…
The natural topological, differentiable and geometrical structures on the space of light rays of a given spacetime are discussed. The relation between the causality properties of the original spacetime and the natural structures on the space of light rays are stressed. Finally, a symplectic geometrical approach to the …
Study on Teichmüller rays' asymptotic behavior and distances.
problem Understanding the asymptotic behavior of Teichmüller rays.
method Explicit formula derivation for limiting Teichmüller distance under specific conditions.
result Two Teichmüller rays are asymptotic if their vertical measured foliations are modularly equivalent and their limit surfaces coincide.
In this paper, we consider the asymptotic behavior of two Teichmüller geodesic rays determined by Jenkins-Strebel differentials, and we obtain a generalization of a theorem in \cite{Amano14}. We also consider the infimum of the asymptotic distance in shifting base points of the rays along the geodesics. We show that th…
Study shows stability in X-ray transform on specific hyperbolic manifolds.
problem Stability of X-ray transform on asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds.
method Constructed a parametrix for the normal operator in 0-pseudodifferential calculus.
result Showed a stability estimate for the X-ray transform.
This PhD thesis studies the broken ray transform, a generalization of the geodesic X-ray transform where geodesics are replaced with broken rays that reflect on a part of the boundary. The fundamental question is whether this transform is injective. We employ four different methods to approach this question, and each o…
Injectivity result for light ray transform on Lorentzian manifolds.
problem Injectivity of light ray transform on Lorentzian manifolds.
method Explicit relationship between geodesic and magnetic vector fields.
result Injectivity up to natural obstruction under certain conditions.
New methods model gamma-ray data to better understand Galactic emissions.
problem Uncertain diffuse Galactic gamma-ray emissions bias data interpretation.
method Gaussian processes and variational inference for flexible modeling.
result More robust interpretation of gamma-ray sky, especially dark matter signals.