The admissibility theorem for the spatial X-ray transform over the two element field

Abstract

We consider the Radon transform along lines in an $n$ dimensional vector space over the two element field. It is well known that this transform is injective and highly overdetermined. We classify the minimal collections of lines for which the restricted Radon transform is also injective. This is an instance of I.M.~Gelfand's {\it admissibility problem}. The solution is in stark contrast to the more uniform cases of the affine hyperplane transform and the projective line transform, which are addressed in other papers, \cite{Feld-G,Gr1}. The presentation here is intended to be widely accessible, requiring minimum background.