The Radon transform and translation representation (Q5954642)

The objective of the paper is to formulate some speculations on the Phillips-Sarnak-Wolpert conjecture (a conjecture on the embedded discrete spectrum of wave equations in hyperbolic spaces). Prerequisites are -- on the one hand -- the definition, some properties and the inversion of the Radon transform in Euclidean 3-space, -- on the other hand -- the translation representation of the solution of the Cauchy problem of the wave equation in \(\mathbb R^3\) and the proof of Huyghens principle by means of the translation representation. Less informally the material of Section 1 can also be found in [\textit{P. D. Lax}, \textit{R. S. Phillips}, Commun. Pure Appl. Math. 32, 617--667 (1979; Zbl 0425.35065), p.~625--633]. In Section 2 the analogous program is sketched for the Radon transform in hyperbolic 3-space (represented in the Poincaré model as the upper half-space) with the related hyperbolic wave equation \(\partial_t^2u-z^2\Delta u-z\partial_zu-u=0\), wherein \(\Delta=\partial_x^2+\partial_y^2+\partial_z^2.\)