The transform considered in the paper averages a function supported in a ball in $RR^n$ over all spheres centered at the boundary of the ball. This Radon type transform arises in several contemporary applications, e.g. in thermoacoustic tomography an
d sonar and radar imaging. Range descriptions for such transforms are important in all these areas, for instance when dealing with incomplete data, error correction, and other issues. Four different types of complete range descriptions are provided, some of which also suggest inversion procedures. Necessity of three of these (appropriately formulated) conditions holds also in general domains, while the complete discussion of the case of general domains would require another publication.
The purpose of this paper is to study the sparse bound of the operator of the form $f mapsto psi(x) int f(gamma_t(x))K(t)dt$, where $gamma_t(x)$ is a $C^infty$ function defined on a neighborhood of the origin in $(x, t) in mathbb R^n times mathbb R^k
$, satisfying $gamma_0(x) equiv x$, $psi$ is a $C^infty$ cut-off function supported on a small neighborhood of $0 in mathbb R^n$ and $K$ is a Calderon-Zygmund kernel suppported on a small neighborhood of $0 in mathbb R^k$. Christ, Nagel, Stein and Wainger gave conditions on $gamma$ under which $T: L^p mapsto L^p (1<p<infty)$ is bounded. Under the these same conditions, we prove sparse bounds for $T$, which strengthens their result. As a corollary, we derive weighted norm estimates for such operators.
Using the tensor Radon transform and related numerical methods, we study how bulk geometries can be explicitly reconstructed from boundary entanglement entropies in the specific case of $mathrm{AdS}_3/mathrm{CFT}_2$. We find that, given the boundary
entanglement entropies of a $2$d CFT, this framework provides a quantitative measure that detects whether the bulk dual is geometric in the perturbative (near AdS) limit. In the case where a well-defined bulk geometry exists, we explicitly reconstruct the unique bulk metric tensor once a gauge choice is made. We then examine the emergent bulk geometries for static and dynamical scenarios in holography and in many-body systems. Apart from the physics results, our work demonstrates that numerical methods are feasible and effective in the study of bulk reconstruction in AdS/CFT.
We present a new supervised image classification method applicable to a broad class of image deformation models. The method makes use of the previously described Radon Cumulative Distribution Transform (R-CDT) for image data, whose mathematical prope
rties are exploited to express the image data in a form that is more suitable for machine learning. While certain operations such as translation, scaling, and higher-order transformations are challenging to model in native image space, we show the R-CDT can capture some of these variations and thus render the associated image classification problems easier to solve. The method -- utilizing a nearest-subspace algorithm in R-CDT space -- is simple to implement, non-iterative, has no hyper-parameters to tune, is computationally efficient, label efficient, and provides competitive accuracies to state-of-the-art neural networks for many types of classification problems. In addition to the test accuracy performances, we show improvements (with respect to neural network-based methods) in terms of computational efficiency (it can be implemented without the use of GPUs), number of training samples needed for training, as well as out-of-distribution generalization. The Python code for reproducing our results is available at https://github.com/rohdelab/rcdt_ns_classifier.
In this article, we prove a stability estimate going from the Radon transform of a function with limited angle-distance data to the $L^p$ norm of the function itself, under some conditions on the support of the function. We apply this theorem to obta
in stability estimates for an inverse boundary value problem with partial data.