Mathematical Research Letters

Volume 23 (2016)

Number 2

Radon inversion formulas over local fields

Pages: 565 – 591

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4310/MRL.2016.v23.n2.a13

Author

Jonathan Wang (Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.)

Abstract

Let $F$ be a local field and $n \geq 2$ an integer. We study the Radon transform as an operator $M : \mathcal{C}_{+} \to \mathcal{C}_{-}$ from the space of smooth $K$-finite functions on $F^n \setminus \{ 0 \}$ with bounded support to the space of smooth $K$-finite functions on $F^n \setminus \{ 0 \}$ supported away from a neighborhood of $0$. These spaces naturally arise in the theory of automorphic forms. We prove that $M$ is an isomorphism and provide formulas for $M^{-1}$. In the real case, we show that when $K$-finiteness is dropped from the definitions, the analog of $M$ is not surjective.

Accepted 17 June 2015

Published 6 June 2016