A general support theorem for analytic double fibration transforms

Abstract: We develop a systematic approach for resolving the analytic wave front set for a class of integral geometry transforms appearing in various tomography problems. Combined with microlocal analytic continuation, this leads to uniqueness and support theorems for analytic integral transforms which are in the microlocal double fibration framework introduced by Guillemin. For the case of ray transforms, we show that the double fibration setup has a concrete interpretation in terms of curve families obtained by projecting integral curves of a fixed vector field on some fiber bundle down to the base. This setup includes geodesic X-ray type transforms, null bicharacteristic ray transforms and transforms related to real principal type systems. We also study transforms integrating over submanifolds of any codimension, and give geometric characterizations for the Bolker condition required for recovering singularities. Our approach is based on a general result related to recovering the analytic wave front set of a function from its transform given by a suitable analytic elliptic Fourier integral operator. This approach extends and unifies a number of previous works. We use wave packet transforms to extrapolate the geometric features of wave front set propagation for such operators when their canonical relation satisfies the Bolker condition.