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The attenuated ray transforms on Gaussian thermostats with negative curvature

In the present paper we consider a Gaussian thermostat on a compact Riemannian surface with negative thermostat curvature. In the case of surfaces with boundary, we show that the thermostat ray transform with attenuation given by a general connection and Higgs field is injective, modulo the natural obstruction, for tensors. We also prove that the connection and Higgs field can be determined, up to a gauge transformation, from the knowledge of the parallel transport between boundary points along all possible thermostat geodesics. In the case of closed surfaces, we obtain similar results for the ray transform with some additional conditions on the connection. Under the same condition, we study connections and Higgs fields whose parallel transport along periodic thermostat geodesics coincides with the ones for the flat connection.