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.References
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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