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The canonical geodesic involution and harmonic spaces

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We prove a property of the canonical geodesic involution for a general Riemannian manifold and we derive a new recursion formula for the even coefficients in the power series expansion for the shape operator of a geodesic sphere.

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  1. Departement Wiskunde, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200 B, B-3030, Leuven, Belgium

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Vanhecke, L. The canonical geodesic involution and harmonic spaces. Ann Glob Anal Geom 1, 131–136 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02329741

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