Closed forms of the Green's function and the generalized Green's function for the Helmholtz operator on the N-dimensional unit sphere

Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 995-1009

  Szmytkowski, Radoslaw ^a  

^a GDANSK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

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EID: 64949176872     PISSN: 17518113     EISSN: 17518121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1751-8113/40/5/009     Document Type: Article

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