Reconstructive integral geometry

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The book is an extended version of a lecture course which was taught by the author. It represents a systematic treatment of diverse problems of integral geometry starting from the classical works by Minkowski and Funk, and containing some recent results. The main focus is reconstruction formulas and interplay with harmonic analysis, geometry, and differential equations. The way of presentation and the choice of the material reflects author's taste and his contribution to the area. Chapter 1 contains a mini-course in distribution theory, harmonic analysis and geometry. Chapter 2 is devoted to the Radon transform for hyperplanes in \(R^n\) and includes the following topics: Basic properties, inversion formulas, range conditions, frequency analysis, Radon transform of differential forms. Chapter 3 deals with the Funk transform. This name is attributed by the author to diverse Radon-like transforms for families of subvarieties of a Riemannian manifold. The totally geodesic transforms on spaces of constant curvature, in particular, the Minkowski-Funk transform for the unit sphere, are covered by this notion. Chapter 4 is devoted to reconstruction from line integrals. This includes the \(X\)-ray transform, rays tangent to a surface, sources on a proper curve, line integrals of differential forms, exponential and attenuated ray transforms. In Chapter 5 the author considers flat integral transforms (or \(k\)-plane transforms in another terminology with \(1\leq k <n\)). Chapter 6 is devoted to incomplete data problems and includes Radon transform of Gabor functions, reconstruction from limited angle data, exterior problem and the parametrix method. Chapter 7 focuses on inversion of spherical transforms of the form \(Mf(S)=\int_S f dS\) where \(S\) belongs to certain family \(\Sigma\) of \((n-1)\)-dimensional spheres. The following special cases are considered: I. \(\Sigma\) is the pencil of spheres orthogonal to a hyperplane; II. \(\Sigma\) is the set of spheres with centers at a sphere; III. \(\Sigma\) is the family of spheres tangent to a subvariety. Chapter 8 is devoted to algebraic integral transforms when integration is performed over certain algebraic subvarieties. Chapters 7 and 8 also discuss various aspects of interplay of integral geometry and differential equations. The new book is a useful addition to the existing literature on integral geometry and, in particular, on Radon transforms.




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