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In this paper, we investigate the localization properties of optical waves in disordered systems with multifractal scattering potentials. In particular, we apply the localization landscape theory to the classical Helmholtz operator and,…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-18 Tornike Shubitidze , Yilin Zhu , Hari Sundar , Luca Dal Negro

Many representation systems on the sphere have been proposed in the past, such as spherical harmonics, wavelets, or curvelets. Each of these data representations is designed to extract a specific set of features, and choosing the best fixed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 Florent Sureau , Felix Voigtlaender , Malte Wust , Jean-Luc Starck , Gitta Kutyniok

We present a new method for the analysis of images, a fundamental task in observational astronomy. It is based on the linear decomposition of each object in the image into a series of localised basis functions of different shapes, which we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Alexandre Refregier

This paper provides a survey of spherical designs and their applications, with a particular emphasis on the perspective of ``numerical analysis''. A set \(X_N\) of \(N\) points on the unit sphere \(\mathbb{S}^d\) is called a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Congpei An , Xiaosheng Zhuang

Spatial stochastic processes that are modeled over the entire Earth's surface require statistical approaches that directly consider the spherical domain. Here, we extend the notion of intrinsic random functions (IRF) to model non-stationary…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-06-08 Chunfeng Huang , Haimeng Zhang , Scott M. Robeson , Jacob Shields

Wavelets are a useful basis for constructing solutions of the integral and differential equations of scattering theory. Wavelet bases efficiently represent functions with smooth structures on different scales, and the matrix representation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 B. M. Kessler , G. L. Payne , W. N. Polyzou

In this paper, we are concerned with $n$-dimensional spherical wavelets derived from the theory of approximate identities. For nonzonal bilinear wavelets introduced by Ebert \emph{et al.} in 2009 we prove isometry and Euclidean limit…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-07 Ilona Iglewska-Nowak

We describe the construction of a spherical wavelet analysis through the inverse stereographic projection of the Euclidean planar wavelet framework, introduced originally by Antoine and Vandergheynst and developed further by Wiaux et al.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-28 J. D. McEwen , M. P. Hobson , D. J. Mortlock , A. N. Lasenby

We present spatial-Slepian transform~(SST) for the representation of signals on the sphere to support localized signal analysis. We use well-optimally concentrated Slepian functions, obtained by solving the Slepian spatial-spectral…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-01 Adeem Aslam , Zubair Khalid

This document describes the implementation of the external module ITKIsotropicWavelets, a multiresolution (MRA) analysis framework using isotropic and steerable wavelets in the frequency domain. This framework provides the backbone for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-04 Pablo Hernandez-Cerdan

We study approximation error bounds of isogeometric function spaces on a specific type of singularly parameterized domains. In this context an isogeometric function is the composition of a piecewise rational function with the inverse of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-30 Thomas Takacs

In this paper we establish a multiscale approximation for random fields on the sphere using spherical needlets --- a class of spherical wavelets. We prove that the semidiscrete needlet decomposition converges in mean and pointwise senses…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-13 Quoc T. Le Gia , Ian H. Sloan , Yu Guang Wang , Robert S. Womerlsey

Since the 1960's the finite element method emerged as a powerful tool for the numerical simulation of countless physical phenomena or processes in applied sciences. One of the reasons for this undeniable success is the great versatility of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-05 Vitoriano Ruas

We consider the variational problem of minimizing an anisotropic perimeter functional under a volume constraint in a Euclidean convex domain. We extend to this setting analytical properties of the isoperimetric profile, topological features…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-14 César Rosales

Curvelets are efficient to represent highly anisotropic signal content, such as a local linear and curvilinear structure. First-generation curvelets on the sphere, however, suffered from blocking artefacts. We present a new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Jennifer Y. H. Chan , Boris Leistedt , Thomas D. Kitching , Jason D. McEwen

A new approach for analyzing waveguide junctions containing conductive cylindrical objects is proposed. The algorithm is based on mode matching technique using local projection functions, which improves the numerical conditioning of the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Malgorzata Warecka , Rafal Lech , Piotr Kowalczyk

Approximation/interpolation from spaces of positive definite or conditionally positive definite kernels is an increasingly popular tool for the analysis and synthesis of scattered data, and is central to many meshless methods. For a set of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-09-11 E. Fuselier , T. Hangelbroek , F. J. Narcowich , J. D. Ward , G. B. Wright

This paper is concerned with the use of the stereographic projection to map the points of a design on the sphere in three dimensions onto a two-dimensional stereogram. Details of the projection and its attendant stereogram are given and the…

Applications · Statistics 2024-07-08 Linda M. Haines

Spherical needlets were introduced by Narcowich, Petrushev, and Ward to provide a multiresolution sequence of polynomial approximations to functions on the sphere. The needlet construction makes use of integration rules that are exact for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-27 Johann S. Brauchart , Peter J. Grabner , Ian H. Sloan , Robert S. Womersley

We construct an adaptive estimator of a density function on $d$ dimensional unit sphere $S^d$ ($d \geq 2 $), using a new type of spherical frames. The frames, or as we call them, stereografic wavelets are obtained by transforming a wavelet…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-10-15 Bogdan Ćmiel , Karol Dziedziul , Natalia Jarzębkowska