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In many applications data are measured or defined on a spherical manifold; spherical harmonic transforms are then required to access the frequency content of the data. We derive algorithms to perform forward and inverse spin spherical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-28 J. D. McEwen

A fast and exact algorithm is developed for the spin +-2 spherical harmonics transforms on equi-angular pixelizations on the sphere. It is based on the Driscoll and Healy fast scalar spherical harmonics transform. The theoretical exactness…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Y. Wiaux , L. Jacques , P. Vandergheynst

Many areas of science and engineering encounter data defined on spherical manifolds. Modelling and analysis of spherical data often necessitates spherical harmonic transforms, at high degrees, and increasingly requires efficient computation…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-06-19 Matthew A. Price , Jason D. McEwen

We develop a sampling scheme on the sphere that permits accurate computation of the spherical harmonic transform and its inverse for signals band-limited at $L$ using only $L^2$ samples. We obtain the optimal number of samples given by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-25 Zubair Khalid , Rodney A. Kennedy , Jason D. McEwen

For the representation of spin-$s$ band-limited functions on the sphere, we propose a sampling scheme with optimal number of samples equal to the number of degrees of freedom of the function in harmonic space. In comparison to the existing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-06 Usama Elahi , Zubair Khalid , Rodney A. Kennedy , Jason D. McEwen

We propose a transform for signals defined on the sphere that reveals their localized directional content in the spatio-spectral domain when used in conjunction with an asymmetric window function. We call this transform the directional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-23 Z. Khalid , R. A. Kennedy , S. Durrani , P. Sadeghi , Y. Wiaux , J. D. McEwen

We propose fast, exact and efficient algorithms for the convolution of two arbitrary functions on the sphere which speed up computations by a factor \order{\sqrt{N}} compared to present methods where $N$ is the number of pixels. No…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Benjamin D. Wandelt , Krzysztof M. Gorski

In this paper, we report on very efficient algorithms for the spherical harmonic transform (SHT). Explicitly vectorized variations of the algorithm based on the Gauss-Legendre quadrature are discussed and implemented in the SHTns library…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-01-08 Nathanaël Schaeffer

Computation of the spherical harmonic rotation coefficients or elements of Wigner's d-matrix is important in a number of quantum mechanics and mathematical physics applications. Particularly, this is important for the Fast Multipole Methods…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2014-04-01 Nail A. Gumerov , Ramani Duraiswami

The authors present SHarmonic, a new implementation of the spherical harmonics targeted for electronic-structure calculations. Their approach is to use explicit formulas for the harmonics written in terms of normalized Cartesian…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Xavier Andrade , Jacopo Simoni , Yuan Ping , Tadashi Ogitsu , Alfredo A. Correa

We present the 2-point function from Fast and Accurate Spherical Bessel Transformation (2-FAST) algorithm for a fast and accurate computation of integrals involving one or two spherical Bessel functions. These types of integrals occur when…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-17 Henry S. Grasshorn Gebhardt , Donghui Jeong

Deep cosmic microwave background polarization experiments allow a very precise internal reconstruction of the gravitational lensing signal in pricinple. For this aim, likelihood-based or Bayesian methods are typically necessary, where very…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-25 Martin Reinecke , Sebastian Belkner , Julien Carron

We accelerate the computation of spherical harmonic transforms, using what is known as the butterfly scheme. This provides a convenient alternative to the approach taken in the second paper from this series on "Fast algorithms for spherical…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-05-14 Mark Tygert

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

Recent microscopy imaging techniques allow to precisely analyze cell morphology in 3D image data. To process the vast amount of image data generated by current digitized imaging techniques, automated approaches are demanded more than ever.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Dennis Eschweiler , Malte Rethwisch , Simon Koppers , Johannes Stegmaier

A rapid transformation is derived between spherical harmonic expansions and their analogues in a bivariate Fourier series. The change of basis is described in two steps: firstly, expansions in normalized associated Legendre functions of all…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-07 Richard Mikael Slevinsky

We present a unified treatment of the Fourier spectra of spherically symmetric nonlocal diffusion operators. We develop numerical and analytical results for the class of kernels with weak algebraic singularity as the distance between source…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Yu Li , Richard Mikael Slevinsky

We discuss in some details a novel algorithm for performing partial-sky spherical harmonic transforms (SHT), building on the Fourier-sphere method of Reinecke et al (2023) handling efficiently high numbers of arbitrary locations on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-20 Julien Carron , Martin Reinecke

The wave functions of a quantum isotropic harmonic oscillator in N-space modified by barriers at the coordinate hyperplanes can be expressed in terms of certain generalized spherical harmonics. These are associated with a product-type…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2009-11-07 Charles F. Dunkl

Fast and accurate computations of the power spectrum of cosmic microwave background fluctuations are essential for comparing current and upcoming data sets with the large parameter space of viable cosmological models. The most efficient…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Arthur Kosowsky
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