%0 Journal Article %T Eisenstein integrals and induction of relations %A E. P. van den Ban %J Mathematics %D 2003 %I arXiv %X I give a survey of joint work with Henrik Schlichtkrull on the induction of certain relations among (partial) Eisenstein integrals for the minimal principal series of a reductive symmetric space. I explain the application of this principle of induction to the proofs of a Fourier inversion formula and a Paley-Wiener theorem. Finally, the relation with the Plancherel decomposition is discussed. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0304188v1