A certain inversion problem for the ray transform with incomplete data.
We prove a spectral Paley-Wiener theorem for the Heisenberg group by means of a support theorem for the twisted spherical means on If is a Schwartz class function we show that is supported in a ball of radius in if and only if for for all This is an analogue of Helgason’s support theorem on Euclidean and hyperbolic spaces. When we show that the two conditions for imply a support theorem for a large class of functions with exponential growth. Surprisingly enough,this latter...