Spherical Means and Distributions in Clifford Analysis

This paper consists of two parts. In the first part we deal with specific higher dimensional distributions within the framework of Clifford analysis. These distributions are “classical” in the sense that they were already introduced, albeit dispersed, in the literature on harmonic analysis and on Clifford analysis. Amongst these classical distributions are the fundamental solutions of the natural powers of the Laplace and the Dirac operators, and the integral kernel of the Hilbert transform. The strength of our approach is its unifying character.