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X-ray transform on Damek-Ricci spaces. (English) Zbl 1254.44002

Summary: Damek-Ricci spaces, also called harmonic \(NA\) groups, make up a large class of harmonic Riemannian manifolds including all hyperbolic spaces. We prove here an inversion formula and a support theorem for the X-ray transform, i.e. integration along geodesics, on those spaces.
Using suitably chosen totally geodesic submanifolds we reduce the problems to similar questions on low-dimensional hyperbolic spaces.

MSC:

44A12 Radon transform
53C22 Geodesics in global differential geometry
53C25 Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.)
22E30 Analysis on real and complex Lie groups