Inverting Radon transforms: the group-theoretic approach. (English) Zbl 1138.53312
Summary: In the framework of homogeneous spaces of Lie groups, we propose a synthetic survey and several generalizations of various inversion formulas from the literature on Radon transforms, obtained by group-theoretic tools such as invariant differential operators and harmonic analysis. We introduce a general concept of shifted Radon transform, which also leads to simple inversion formulas and solves wave equations.