CHARACTERISTIC FUNCTION OF SYMMETRIC DAMEK-RICCI SPACE
CHARACTERISTIC FUNCTION OF SYMMETRIC DAMEK-RICCI SPACE
A Damek-Ricci space is a typical locally harmonic manifold, which is a generalization of the rank one symmetric space of the non-compact type. In this paper, we determine explicitly the characteristic function of a Damek-Ricci space by calculating the determinant of a Jacobi tensor.