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- From: ted@physics2 (Emory F. Bunn)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Fourier Analysis in Hyperbolic Space
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- Date: 13 Jan 93 00:42:32 GMT
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- Organization: Physics Department, U.C. Berkeley
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- I want to do something like Fourier analysis on functions on three-dimensional
- hyperbolic space. That is, I want to find a complete set of eigenfunctions
- of the Laplacian on this space so that I can write an arbitrary (sufficiently
- nice) function as a linear combination of these functions. I think I've
- found all of the eigenfunctions of the Laplacian, but I'm having trouble
- figuring out the orthogonality and completeness relations I need to
- make use of them. That is, if f_k(x) is an eigenfunction with eigenvalue
- -k^2, I want to prove things like
-
- \int f_k(x) f_{k'}(x) dV is proportional to \delta(k-k')
- and
- \int f_k(x) f_k(x') ... is proportional to \delta(x-x')
-
- (\delta is a Dirac delta distribution; dV is the volume element in hyperbolic
- space, and the ... means that I'm not sure what to put there: It's some
- sort of volume element in k-space.)
-
- (The eigenfunctions can be written in terms of associated Legendre functions
- of complex order, in case you're interested.)
-
- Can anybody point me towards a good source of information, either on this
- specific problem, or on doing this kind of analysis on a general Riemannian
- manifold? I'm a physicist, not a mathematician, but I'm not quite as
- ignorant of mathematics as mathematicians generally suppose physicists to
- be. I've looked around for such sources, but I don't even know what one
- would call this particular branch of mathematics, so I haven't found anything
- useful.
-
- Replies by e-mail would be preferable, as I don't generally follow
- this newsgroup.
-
- Thanks.
-
- -Ted
- (ted@physics.berkeley.edu)
-