Ray Transforms and Vector Fields

Abstract

We review and extend a technique for recovering a smooth function from its averages over a wide class of curves in a general region of Euclidean space. The method is based on complexification of the underlying vector fields defining the transport and recasting the problem in terms of complex-analytic function theory. Conditions on the validity of prior formulae appearing in a previous paper as well as stability estimates are then discussed first for the case of vector fields with polynomial coefficients and later for more general cases.