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PSEUDOINVERSIONOFDEGENERATEMETRICS C.ATINDOGBE, J.-P.EZIN,andJO?LTOSSA Received 21January 2003 Let (M,g) be a smooth manifold M endowed with a metric g. A large class of di?erential operators indi?erential geometry isintrinsically de?ned bymeans of the dual metric g? on the dual bundle TM? of 1-forms on M. If the metric g is (semi)-Riemannian, the metric g? is just the inverse of g. This paper studies thede?nition oftheabove-mentioned geometric di?erential operators inthecase of manifolds endowed with degenerate metrics for which g? is not de?ned. We applythetheoretical resultstoLapl