The spherical mean value operator for compact symmetric spaces (Q1901171): Difference between revisions

The authors determine the eigenvalues of the mean value operator over geodesic spheres of fixed radius for compact symmetric spaces of arbitrary rank. This way they obtain a new proof of an earlier result of Sunada on ergodicity of the mean value operator in these spaces. The reviewer considered this problem for the Heisenberg group [\textit{M. Agranovsky}, \textit{C. Berenstein} and \textit{D.-C. Chang}, Ergodic and mixing properties of radial measures on the Heisenberg group, in ``Fourier Analysis: analytic and geometric aspects'', W. O. Bray et al., eds., Lect. Notes Pure Appl. Math. 157, 1-15 (1994)] and would like to point out that Marc-Olivier Gebuhrer obtained similar results for hypergroups in his unpublished doctoral thesis at Strasbourg.