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The determinant of the Laplacian on the n-sphere

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Kinki, Iizuka, Fukuoka 820-8555, Japan

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regularized determinant, Hurwitz zeta-function, eigenvalues of the Laplacian

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Acta Arithmetica
1999/91/3
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Pages:
199-208
Main language of publication
English
Received
1997-07-18
Accepted
1999-05-12
Published
1999
Exact and natural sciences