Non-geodesic Spherical Funk Transforms with One and Two Centers

Abstract

We study non-geodesic Funk-type transforms associated with cross-sections of the n-sphere by k-dimensional planes passing through an arbitrary fixed point inside the sphere. The main results include injectivity conditions for these transforms, inversion formulas, and connection with geodesic Funk transforms. We also show that, unlike the case of planes through a single common center, the integrals over spherical sections by planes through two distinct centers provide the corresponding reconstruction problem a unique solution.