A generalized Helmholtz-type decomposition of symmetric tensor fields and applications to ray transforms

Antti Kykkänen; Rohit Kumar Mishra; Suman Kumar Sahoo

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A generalized Helmholtz-type decomposition of symmetric tensor fields and applications to ray transforms

Antti Kykkänen·Rohit Kumar Mishra·Suman Kumar Sahoo

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We study a solenoidal-potential type decomposition of a symmetric $m$-tensor field in $\Rb^2$, and its implications to injectivity questions for the momentum and elastic ray transforms. For symmetric tensor fields, a general decomposition with a restriction on the dimension and order of the decomposition was proved in [16]. We extend the result to dimension $2$ under a mean-zero assumption. We use the decomposition in $2$ dimensions to prove the injectivity of the momentum and elastic ray transforms. We also prove a connection between the two integral transforms for $2$-tensors. Later, we use our decomposition to prove the injectivity of integral transforms, including longitudinal and elastic ray transforms, without any mean-zero assumption on tensor fields. Next, we explore connections between different integral transforms and use these to relate their corresponding properties.

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Antti Kykkänen, Rohit Kumar Mishra, Suman Kumar Sahoo. 2026-07-16. A generalized Helmholtz-type decomposition of symmetric tensor fields and applications to ray transforms. https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.18983

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