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Spherical Harmonics on the Heisenberg Group

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Peter C. Greiner*
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Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada M5S 1A1
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H1. Equip ℝ3 with the group law

(1.1)

where (z, t) stands for (x, y, t). This is a nilpotent Lie group, usually referred to as the first Heisenberg group, H1. In general Hk denotes ℝ2k+1 equipped with a similar group law, namely

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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1980

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