Pullback of measures on Riemannian manifolds (Q542862)

The aim of this paper consists in connecting the different approaches for the pullback of distributions. Furthermore, one relates these approaches to the more general concept of single-layer distributions, which allows a generalization to pullbacks on submanifolds of Riemannian manifolds. In this paper, only the pullback of measures are studied. A general formula for the pullback of measures on submanifolds of Riemannian manifolds is derived. One proves the equivalence of three different approaches to distributions supported on submanifolds, originating from Gelfand and Shilov, and Friedlander, and a characterization using single-layer distributions, respectively. As a consequence, one presents an alternative formula for the pullback of an arbitrary distribution. Finally, one applies the obtained formulas to an illustrative example in order to give an intuitive appeal to these abstract concepts.