Results in Mathematics

, Volume 27, Issue 1–2, pp 41–50 | Cite as

Generalized spherical functions on projectively flat manifolds

  • Robert B. Gardner
  • Marcus Kriele
  • Udo Simon
Article

Abstract

Local and global properties of the first order spherical functions are generalized to projectively flat manifolds.

MOS classification

53 B10 53 A15 33 C35 

Key words

spherical functions projectively flat manifolds 

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© Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1995

Authors and Affiliations

  • Robert B. Gardner
    • 1
  • Marcus Kriele
    • 2
  • Udo Simon
    • 2
  1. 1.University of North CarolinaChapel HillUSA
  2. 2.Fachbereich MathematikTechnische Universität BerlinBerlinGermany

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