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Regions of the n-sphere and related integrals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

I.D. Currie
Affiliation:
Department of Actuarial Mathematics & Statistics, Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton, Currie, Edinburgh EH14 4AS
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In this note the volumes of certain regions in the n-sphere will be found in two ways: (a) by using a symmetry argument, (b) by expressing the volumes as repeated integrals over the (n-l)-cube. By considering the 4 and 5 spheres and equating the integrals obtained by method (b) to the solution obtained by method (a) we evaluate integrals of the form

for certain values of a, b and c; it does not appear easy (if indeed it is possible) to evaluate these integrals by direct methods.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1978

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