X-RAY TRANSFORM ON DAMEK-RICCI SPACES

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.