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Fast SGL Fourier transforms for scattered data

Numerical Analysis 2019-07-09 v2 Numerical Analysis

Abstract

Spherical Gauss-Laguerre (SGL) basis functions, i. e., normalized functions of the type Lnl1(l+1/2)(r2)rlYlm(ϑ,φ)L_{n-l-1}^{(l + 1/2)}(r^2) r^l Y_{lm}(\vartheta,\varphi), ml<nN|m| \leq l < n \in \mathbb{N}, Lnl1(l+1/2)L_{n-l-1}^{(l + 1/2)} being a generalized Laguerre polynomial, YlmY_{lm} a spherical harmonic, constitute an orthonormal polynomial basis of the space L2L^2 on R3\mathbb{R}^3 with radial Gaussian (multivariate Hermite) weight exp(r2)\exp(-r^2). We have recently described fast Fourier transforms for the SGL basis functions based on an exact quadrature formula with certain grid points in R3\mathbb{R}^3. In this paper, we present fast SGL Fourier transforms for scattered data. The idea is to employ well-known basal fast algorithms to determine a three-dimensional trigonometric polynomial that coincides with the bandlimited function of interest where the latter is to be evaluated. This trigonometric polynomial can then be evaluated efficiently using the well-known non-equispaced FFT (NFFT). We proof an error estimate for our algorithms and validate their practical suitability in extensive numerical experiments.

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@article{arxiv.1809.10786,
  title  = {Fast SGL Fourier transforms for scattered data},
  author = {Christian Wülker},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.10786},
  year   = {2019}
}
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