Isotropic fourth moment of a ball

ID: isotropic-fourth-moment-of-a-ball

Here is the volume of the unit ball in -dimensional Euclidean space. Rotational invariance makes the integral an isotropic tensor, while complete symmetry in its four indices equates the three coefficients. Contracting and gives times their common value. The same contraction of the integral is , proving the formula. For the coefficient is . This is the fourth-order counterpart of the isotropic second moment of a ball.

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