On an analytic description of the \(\alpha\)-cosine transform on real Grassmannians (Q2796987)

The authors describe the \(\alpha\)-cosine transform on functions on real Grassmannian \(\mathrm{Gr}_ i(\mathbb{R}^n )\) in analytic terms as explicitly as possible. They show that for all but finitely many complex \(\alpha\) the \(\alpha\)-cosine transform is a composition of the \((\alpha+2)\)-cosine transform with an explicitly written (though complicated) \(O(n)\)-invariant differential operator. For all exceptional values of \(\alpha\) except one, they interpret the \(\alpha\)-cosine transform explicitly as either the Radon transform or composition of two Radon transforms. The explicit interpretation of the transform corresponding to the last remaining value \(\alpha\), which is \(-(\min\{i,n-i\}+1)\), is still an open problem.