Radial Integration in Continuous Dimension: A Mellin-Gamma Classification of Euclidean Ball Volume
Abstract
We classify positive linear functionals on satisfying scaling covariance of degree and Gaussian normalization to . We prove that the unique such functionals are represented by the Mellin--Gamma measures The result is a rigidity statement: the Mellin--Gamma structure is forced by the axioms, without assuming analytic continuation, special functions, or a priori formulas. The proof reduces the scaling condition, via a logarithmic change of variables, to translation invariance on , where Haar measure uniqueness determines the measure up to normalization, which is fixed by the Gaussian integral. As a consequence, the Euclidean ball volume formula is recovered as the mass of the unit interval. We further analyze the induced dimension-shift structure, identifying two multiplicative cocycles whose ratio is a coboundary given by the dimension function , and give an independent characterization via a shifted Bohr--Mollerup theorem.
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@article{arxiv.2605.04351,
title = {Radial Integration in Continuous Dimension: A Mellin-Gamma Classification of Euclidean Ball Volume},
author = {Andreu Ballus Santacana},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.04351},
year = {2026}
}
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15 pages