Tomography of 1-forms on a gas giant

Abstract

We show that on gas giant manifolds the geodesic X-ray transform is solenoidally injective on one-forms that are smooth up to the boundary in an appropriate smooth structure. A gas giant manifold is a conformally blown up Riemannian manifold whose boundary singularity is milder than asymptotically hyperbolic. The proof is based on a Pestov identity and asymptotic analysis of short geodesics.