We propose a simple method for uniform sampling of points on the surface of a hypersphere in arbitrarily many dimensions. By avoiding the evaluation of computationally expensive functions like logarithms, sines, cosines, or higher order roots the new method is faster than alternative techniques.
@article{arxiv.2204.14004,
title = {A simple algorithm for uniform sampling on the surface of a hypersphere},
author = {Stefan Schnabel and Wolfhard Janke},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.14004},
year = {2022}
}