Another Approach to Juhl's Conformally Covariant Differential Operators from S<sup>n</sup> to S<sup>n-1</sup>

Abstract

A family $({\mathbf D}_\lambda)_{\lambda\in \mathbb C}$ of differential operators on the sphere $S^n$ is constructed. The operators are conformally covariant for the action of the subgroup of conformal transformations of $S^n$ which preserve the smaller sphere $S^{n-1}\subset S^n$. The family of conformally covariant differential operators from $S^n$ to $S^{n-1}$ introduced by A. Juhl is obtained by composing these operators on $S^n$ and taking restrictions to $S^{n-1}$.