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Local and global properties of the first order spherical functions are generalized to projectively flat manifolds.
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Dedicated to Katsumi Nomizu
Partially supported by the exchange-program UNC-TUB and by NSF grants DMS-9204942 and 9409037
Partially supported by the DFG-project Si 163/4-1
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Gardner, R.B., Kriele, M. & Simon, U. Generalized spherical functions on projectively flat manifolds. Results. Math. 27, 41–50 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03322268
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