Sigurdur Helgason

The Radon Transform

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first edition of this book has been out of print for some time and I have decided to follow the publisher's kind suggestion to prepare a new edition. Many examples with explicit inversion formulas and range theo rems have been added, and the group-theoretic viewpoint emphasized. For example, the integral geometric viewpoint of the Poisson integral for the disk leads to interesting analogies with the X-ray transform in Euclidean 3-space. To preserve the introductory flavor of the book the short and self-contained Chapter Von Schwartz' distributions has been added. Here
5 provides proofs of the needed results about the Riesz potentials while
3-4 develop the tools from Fourier analysis following closely the account in Hormander's books (1963] and [1983]. There is some overlap with my books (1984] and [1994b] which however rely heavily on Lie group theory. The present book is much more elementary. I am indebted to Sine Jensen for a critical reading of parts of the manuscript and to Hilgert and Schlichtkrull for concrete contributions men tioned at specific places in the text. Finally I thank Jan Wetzel and Bonnie Friedman for their patient and skillful preparation of the manuscript.

Produktdetails

• Progress in Mathematics 5
• Verlag: Springer / Springer US / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-4757-1465-4
• 1999
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 311g
• ISBN-13: 9781475714654
• ISBN-10: 1475714653
• Artikelnr.: 40780158

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the Second Edition.-Preface to the First Edition.-The Radon Transform on Rn.-A Duality in Integral Geometry. Generalized Radon Transforms and Orbital Integrals.-The Radon Transform on Two-Point Homogeneous Spaces.-Orbital Integrals and the Wave Operator for Isotropic Lorentz Spaces.-Fourier Transforms and Distributions. A Rapid Course.-Bibliography.-Notational Conventions.-Subject Index.

Rezensionen

"This is the second edition of the famous book by Sigurdur Helgason which has been updated in accordance with recent new results in this area. The list of references and bibliographical notes have been essentially extended. Many examples with explicit inversion formulas and range theorems have been added, and the group-theoretic viewpoint is emphasized... [the] author adds a new chapter, Chapter 5, which contains useful information about Fourier transforms, distributions and Riesz potentials. The second edition preserves the nice introductory flavor of the first one. The book will be highly appreciated by the mathematical community." --Mathematical Reviews (on the second edition) "...well-written and a pleasure to read...provides clear explanations and illustrative figures... Every important point receives a clear proof. The author puts a great deal of effort into motivating his readers. The chapters have been updated by the inclusion of some applications and by giving indications in bibliographical notes of some recent developments... [an] excellent introduction to an area of mathematics which seems to have attracted much new interest...highly recommendable...for graduate students... and researchers." --ZAA (on the second edition) "Until now the subject [The Radon transform] has lacked anything approaching a systematic exposition aimed at beginners. Publication of the present volume...by one of the chief contributors to the modern theory of the Radon transform, is thus...timely and welcome...Helgason's notes provide the most agreeable introduction to the Radon transform currently available. [A] reader will be charmed by the interplay of geometry and analysis exhibited here and reassured by the explicit nature of the formulas obtained. [Chapter 3] is the heart of the second half of the book and, on balance, provides an admirable introit to a branch of analysis which deserves to be known by a wider public." --SIAM Review (on the first edition)