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Spherical means and geodesic chains on a Riemannian manifold
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Abstract:

Some spectral properties of spherical mean operators defined on a Riemannian manifold are given. As an application we deduce a statistic property of geodesic chains which is interesting from the view point of geometric probability.
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  • © Copyright 1981 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 267 (1981), 483-501
  • MSC: Primary 58G15; Secondary 58G32, 60J25
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-1981-0626485-6
  • MathSciNet review: 626485