Contact measures in isotropic spaces

Jul 26 2017

Publication date:
7 September 2017
Source:Advances in Mathematics, Volume 317
Author(s): Gil Solanes
We revisit the contact measures introduced by Firey, and further developed by Schneider and Teufel, from the perspective of the theory of valuations on manifolds. This reveals a link between the kinematic formulas for area measures studied by Wannerer and the integral geometry of curved isotropic spaces. As an application we find explicitly the kinematic formula for the surface area measure in Hermitian space.