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Spherical harmonic d-tensors

Mathematical Physics 2020-01-24 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory math.MP

Abstract

Tensor harmonics are a useful mathematical tool for finding solutions to differential equations which transform under a particular representation of the rotation group SO(3)\mathrm{SO}(3). The aim of this work is to make use of this tool also in the setting of Finsler geometry, or more general geometries on the tangent bundle, where the objects of relevance are d-tensors on the tangent bundle, or tensors in a pullback bundle, instead of ordinary tensors. For this purpose, we construct a set of d-tensor harmonics for spherical symmetry and show how these can be used for calculations in Finsler geometry.

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@article{arxiv.1812.11169,
  title  = {Spherical harmonic d-tensors},
  author = {Manuel Hohmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.11169},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

18 pages, no figures; published in the proceedings of the 23rd International Summer School on Global Analysis and Applications

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