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In this paper we study harmonic analysis on the Einstein gyrogroup of the open ball of ${\mathbb R}^n, n \in \mathbb{N},$ centered at the origin and with arbitrary radius $t \in \mathbb{R}^+,$ associated to the generalised Laplace-Beltrami operator
$$ L_{\sigma,t} = \disp \left( 1 - \frac{\|x\|^2}{t^2} \right) \!\left( \Delta - \sum_{i,j=1}^n \frac{x_i x_j}{t^2} \frac{\partial^2}{\partial x_i \partial x_j} - \frac{\kappa}{t^2} \sum_{i=1}^n x_i \frac{\partial}{\partial x_i} + \frac{\kappa(2-\kappa)}{4t^2} \right)$$where $\kappa=n+\sigma$ and $\sigma \in {\mathbb R}$ is an arbitrary parameter. The generalised harmonic analysis for $L_{\sigma,t}$ gives rise to the $(\sigma,t)$-translation, the $(\sigma,t)$-convo\-lution, the $(\sigma,t)$-spherical Fourier transform, the $(\sigma,t)$-Poisson transform, the $(\sigma,t)$-Helgason Fourier transform, its inverse transform and Plancherel's Theorem. In the limit of large $t,$ $t \rightarrow +\infty,$ the resulting hyperbolic harmonic analysis tends to the standard Euclidean harmonic analysis on ${\mathbb R}^n,$ thus unifying hyperbolic and Euclidean harmonic analysis.
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Einstein gyrogroup Generalised Helgason-Fourier transform Spherical functions Hyperbolic convolution Eigenfunctions Laplace-Beltrami-operator
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Ferreira M., Harmonic analysis on the Einstein gyrogroup, J. Geom. Symm. Phys. 35, 2014, 21-60
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Institute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IBPhBME-BAS)