2025/10/10 by François Monard, Zhen Qi, Monard, François +1
Mathematics · #Differential Geometry (math.DG) #FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows #Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations #Numerical methods in inverse problems
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2510.09518
openalex publication_date 2025/10/10 · openalex created_date 2025/10/14 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In the literature on X-ray transform and Transport Twistor (TT) spaces, blow-down maps (or maps with holomorphic blow-down structure as defined in [BMP24]) are maps that desingularize the degenerate complex structure of the TT space of an oriented Riemannian surface, while collapsing (yet separating) geodesics of the unit tangent bundle of that surface. Such maps were originally constructed in [BMP24] for near-constant curvature simple surfaces, showing that the interior of their TT space is biholomorphic to an open set in standard ℂ2. The construction there relied on a microlocal argument leveraging the absence of conjugate points. In this note, we construct an explicit example of a family of convex, non-trapping Riemannian surfaces, some of which have conjugate points, yet all of whose TT spaces admit a global blow-down map. We also discuss a consequence on the existence of special geodesically invariant functions and its application to geometric inverse problems.