Microlocal Methods for The Elastic Travel Time Tomography Problem for Transversely Isotropic Media

Abstract

We study the travel time tomography problem for transversely isotropic media using the artificial boundary method used in works in X-ray tomography and boundary rigidity problems. The analysis involved requires a modification of the scattering pseudodifferential calculus in order to provide parametrices for operators which are degenerately elliptic; such a calculus is constructed in this paper and used to solve the tomography problem of interest.

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