2011/12/31 by Nguyen, Linh V.
#35A22 #Analysis of PDEs (math.AP) #FOS: Mathematics
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1201.0314
We study the spherical mean transform on \rNn. The transform is characterized by the Euler-Poisson-Darboux equation. By looking at the spherical harmonic expansions, we obtain a system of 1+1-dimension hyperbolic equations, which provide a good machinery to attack problems of spherical mean transform. As showcases, we discuss two known problems. The first one is a local uniqueness problem investigated by M. Agranovsky and P. Kuchment, [\em Memoirs on Differential Equations and Mathematical Physics, 52:1--16, 2011]. We present a simple proof which works even under a weaker condition. The second problem is to characterize the kernel of spherical mean transform on annular regions, which was studied by C. Epstein and B. Kleiner [\em Comm. Pure Appl. Math., 46(3):441--451, 1993]. We present a short proof that simultaneously obtains the necessity and sufficiency for the characterization. As a consequence, we derive a reconstruction procedure for the transform with additional interior (or exterior) information. We also discuss how the approach works for the hyperbolic and spherical spaces.