Inequalities for the derivatives of the Radon transform on convex bodies (Q2130542)

It is known that the sup-norm of the Radon transform of an probability density on an origin-symmetric convex body of volume 1 is bounded from below by a positive constant depending only on the dimension. The authors extend this result to the partial derivatives on the Radon transform of the function \(f\). This transform is related to the Fourier-transformation. Its inverse is mainly used (in tomography) to calculate an object \(A\) from different projections of \(A\) onto hyperplanes. Let \(\xi\) be a unit vector of \(\mathbb {R} ^{n}\) is a hyperplane, and let be \(H_{\xi,t}\) the set of hyperplanes such that \(\xi \cdot x = t\). Then the Radon transform of a function \(f\) -- satisfying the regularity conditions -- is a function \[ Rf: \Sigma _{n} \times \mathbb{R} \mapsto \mathbb {R} ^{n} \] is given by \[ Rf( \xi,t ) = \int _{K \cap H_{\xi,t}} f({x})\,d ( {x} ),\quad \forall \xi \in S_{n-1}, t \in \mathbb{R}. \] In detail the authors study the fractional derivative of the order \(q\), defined by the complex \(\Gamma\)-function, of \(Rf\) at the origin. They get that for a partial derivative of order \(q\) is bounded from below by \[ \frac{ c \cdot (q+1)^{q+1}}{\sqrt{n \, \log^3 \frac{n e}{q+1} }} \leq \frac{1}{\cos \frac {\pi}{q} } \cdot (Rf(\pi,t))^{(q)}_t(0). \] This result is deduced from a more general result thats bounds \(\int_K f(x) dx\) from above using its relation to the Busemann-Petty problem. This inequality uses the \textit{outer volume ratio distance} of compact sets; the authors prove that this distances controls the lower bound on \(Rf\), and for some particular compact sets useful bounds on this distance are given.