An Ellipse Criterion for Exact Nonuniqueness in the Planar Interior Radon Problem
Abstract
We characterize exact nonuniqueness in the planar interior Radon problem for arbitrary pairs of open convex sets. There exists a nonzero smooth function compactly supported in the first set whose integral over every line meeting the second set vanishes if and only if an ellipse contains the closure of the second set and is compactly contained in the first set. The same criterion holds for a nonzero L1 function whose essential support is compactly contained in the first set and whose Radon transform vanishes almost everywhere on those lines. For concentric open squares, the criterion gives the sharp threshold 1/√2 for the inner-to-outer half-side ratio. This yields counterexamples to Conjecture 1.2 of Boman (2021) and to Theorem 40.1 of Boman (2025).
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BibTeX
@misc{hagg2026ellipse,
title = {{An Ellipse Criterion for Exact Nonuniqueness in the Planar Interior Radon Problem}},
author = {Christian Hägg},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2608.29442},
eprint = {2608.29442},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.29442},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - An Ellipse Criterion for Exact Nonuniqueness in the Planar Interior Radon Problem
AU - Christian Hägg
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/26
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2608.29442
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.29442
AB - We characterize exact nonuniqueness in the planar interior Radon problem for arbitrary pairs of open convex sets. There exists a nonzero smooth function compactly supported in the first set whose integral over every line meeting the second set vanishes if and only if an ellipse contains the closure of the second set and is compactly contained in the first set. The same criterion holds for a nonzero L^1 function whose essential support is compactly contained in the first set and whose Radon transform vanishes almost everywhere on those lines. For concentric open squares, the criterion gives the sharp threshold 1/√2 for the inner-to-outer half-side ratio. This yields counterexamples to Conjecture 1.2 of Boman (2021) and to Theorem 40.1 of Boman (2025).
ER -