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Stationary processes of k-flats in \(\mathbb{E}\) d can be thought of as point processes on the Grassmannian \(\mathcal{L}\) k d of k-dimensional subspaces of \(\mathbb{E}\) d. If such a process is sampled by a (d−k+ j)-dimensional space F, it induces a process of j-flats in F. In this work we will investigate the possibility of determining the original k-process from knowledge of the intensity measures of the induced j-processes. We will see that this is impossible precisely when 1<k<d−1 and j=0,...,2[r/2]−1, where r is the rank of the manifold \(\mathcal{L}\) k d. We will show how the problem is equivalent to the study of the kernel of various integral transforms, these will then be investigated using harmonic analysis on Grassmannian manifolds.
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The research of the first and third authors was supported in part by NSF grants DMS-9207019 and DMS-9304284. The research of the second author was supported in part by NFR contract number R-RA 4873-306 and the Swedish Academy of Sciences.
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Goodey, P., Howard, R. & Reeder, M. Processes of flats induced by higher dimensional processes III. Geom Dedicata 61, 257–269 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00150026
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