Invertibility of local geodesic transverse and mixed ray transforms I: basic cases

Abstract

Consider a compact Riemannian manifold in dimension $n\geq 3$ with strictly convex boundary. We show that the transverse ray transform of $1$ tensors and the mixed ray transform of $1+1$ tensors are invertible, up to natural obstructions, near a boundary point. When the manifold admits a strictly convex function, this local invertibility result leads to a global result by a layer stripping argument.