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Let S be a Damek–Ricci space equipped with the Laplace–Beltrami operator \(\Delta \). In this paper, we characterize all eigenfunctions of \(\Delta \) through sphere, ball and shell averages as the radius (of sphere, ball or shell) tends to infinity.
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Muna Naik is supported by INSPIRE faculty fellowship from the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India (DST/INSPIRE/04/2020/001193, IFA20-MA-151).
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Naik, M., Sarkar, R.P. Asymptotic mean value property for eigenfunctions of the Laplace–Beltrami operator on Damek–Ricci spaces. Annali di Matematica 201, 1583–1605 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10231-021-01172-9
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