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A Generalized Wallis Formula
Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ, USA
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Abstract
This article generalizes the famous Wallis’s formula for k ≥ 0 , to an integral over the unit sphere S n-1 . An application to the integral of polynomials over S n-1 is discussed.
KeywordsWillis FormulaUnit Sphere
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