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Superoscillatory functions represent a counterintuitive phenomenon in physics but also in mathematics, where a band-limited function oscillates faster than its highest Fourier component. They appear in various contexts, including quantum…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-12-24 F. Colombo , F. Mantovani , S. Pinton , P. Schlosser

The spherical harmonics $Y_{\ell m}(\theta,\varphi)$ are complex-valued functions on the surface of a sphere, and have found widespread application in physics and astronomy. Every physics students knows them from quantum mechanics and…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Bjoern Malte Schaefer

A method is presented for the fast evaluation of the transient acoustic field generated outside a spherical surface using surface data on the sphere. The method employs Lebedev quadratures, which are optimal integration on the sphere, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Michael J. Carley

We investigate symmetric oscillators, and in particular their quantization, by employing semiclassical and quantum phase functions introduced in the context of Liouville-Green transformations of the Schr\"{o}dinger equation. For anharmonic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-10 A. Matzkin , M. Lombardi

Construction and classification of 2D superintegrable systems (i.e. systems admitting, in addition to two global integrals of motion guaranteeing the Liouville integrability, the third global and independent one) defined on 2D spaces of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Cezary Gonera , Magdalena Kaszubska

In this paper, spectral Barron spaces are defined in the framework of quantum harmonic analysis. Their fundamental properties are studied. These include, among others, their completeness structure and some continuous embedding results. As…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Yaogan Mensah

The Lie-Poisson algebra so(N+1) and some of its contractions are used to construct a family of superintegrable Hamiltonians on the ND spherical, Euclidean, hyperbolic, Minkowskian and (anti-)de Sitter spaces. We firstly present a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Francisco J. Herranz , Angel Ballesteros

A global weak solution of the biharmonic wave map equation in the energy space for spherical targets is constructed. The equation is reformulated as a conservation law and solved by a suitable Ginzburg-Landau type approximation.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-24 Sebastian Herr , Tobias Lamm , Roland Schnaubelt

Multidimensional model describing the "cosmological" and/or spherically symmetric configuration with n+1 Einstein spaces in the theory with several scalar fields and forms is considered. When electro-magnetic composite p-brane ansatz is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 V. D. Ivashchuk , V. N. Melnikov

We give a novel convergence theory for two-level hybrid Schwarz domain-decomposition (DD) methods for finite-element discretisations of the high-frequency Helmholtz equation. This theory gives sufficient conditions for the preconditioned…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Jeffrey Galkowski , Euan A. Spence

We study elementary classical and quantum dynamics in an information geometric space corresponding to a Bernoulli random variable, extending work by Goehle and Griffin [Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 188, 115535, (2024)], who study the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Sean Golder , Christopher Griffin

The orthonormal set of Spherical Harmonics provides a natural way of expanding whole sky redshift and peculiar velocity surveys.

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Ofer Lahav

In recent works, arbitrary structural sets in the non-commutative Clifford analysis context have been used to introduce non-trivial generalizations of harmonic Clifford algebra valued functions in $\mathbb{R}^m$. Being defined as the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-18 Daniel Alfonso Santiesteban , Yudier Peña Pérez , Ricardo Abreu Blaya

We study \alpha-harmonic functions on the complement of the sphere and on the complement of the hyperplane in Euclidean spaces of dimension bigger than one, for \alpha\in(1,2). We describe the corresponding Hardy spaces and prove the Fatou…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2011-12-02 Tomasz Luks

We give embedding theorems for weighted Bergman-Orlicz spaces on the ball and then apply our results to the study of composition operators in this context. As one of the motivations of this work, we show that there exist some weighted…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2010-12-06 Stéphane Charpentier

In this paper, we first give a convenient formula for bi-Laplacian on a sphere and the complete description of its eigenvalues, buckling eigenvalues, and their corresponding eigenfunctions. We then show that the radial (or rotationally…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Ye-Lin Ou

Spherical Harmonics, $Y_\ell^m(\theta,\phi)$, are derived and presented (in a Table) for half-odd-integer values of $\ell$ and $m$. These functions are eigenfunctions of $L^2$ and $L_z$ written as differential operators in the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Hunter , P. Ecimovic , I. Schlifer , I. M. Walker , D. Beamish , S. Donev , M. Kowalski , S. Arslan , S. Heck

We elaborate on the Ashtekar's formalism for spherically symmetric midisuperspaces and, for loop quantization, propound a new quantization scheme which yields a graph-preserving Hamiltonian constraint operator and by which one can impose…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-01-28 Dah-Wei Chiou , Wei-Tou Ni , Alf Tang

The harmonic oscillator as a distinguished dynamical system can be defined not only on the Euclidean plane but also on the sphere and on the hyperbolic plane, and more generally on any configuration space with constant curvature and with a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-03-05 José F. Cariñena , Manuel F. Rañada , Mariano Santander

Spherical harmonics provide a smooth, orthogonal, and symmetry-adapted basis to expand functions on a sphere, and they are used routinely in physical and theoretical chemistry as well as in different fields of science and technology, from…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-05-02 Filippo Bigi , Guillaume Fraux , Nicholas J. Browning , Michele Ceriotti