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General Physics · Physics 2012-05-04 Andrey Petrin

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

Recently published formulas for the surface and regular solid spherical harmonics and for the expansion of the product of two normalized associated Legendre functions with different centers in ellipsoidal coordinates (Telhat Ozdogan, Metin…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. I. Guseinov

Multi-dimensional distributions of discrete data that resemble ellipsoids arise in numerous areas of science, statistics, and computational geometry. We describe a complete algebraic algorithm to determine the quadratic form specifying the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2020-04-20 Rafey Anwar , Madeline Hamilton , Pavel Nadolsky

Associated Legendre polynomials and spherical harmonics are central to calculations in many fields of science and mathematics - not only chemistry but computer graphics, magnetic, seismology and geodesy. There are a number of algorithms for…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-12-23 Taweetham Limpanuparb , Josh Milthorpe

Several local elliptic coordinates are used to build a new polyelliptic coordinate system which is orthogonal and admits the separation of variables. Such coordinate systems can give the exact solutions of some unsolved problems in quantum…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-09-25 Gennady V. Kovalev

The explicit semiclassical treatment of the logarithmic perturbation theory for the bound-state problem for the spherical anharmonic oscillator is developed. Based upon the $\hbar$-expansions and suitable quantization conditions a new…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. V. Dobrovolska , R. S. Tutik

Order parameters based on spherical harmonics and Fourier coefficients already play a significant role in condensed matter research in the context of systems of spherical or point particles. Here, we extend these types of order parameter to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-12-22 Aaron S. Keys , Christopher R. Iacovella , Sharon C. Glotzer

Biharmonic and conformal-biharmonic maps are two fourth-order generalizations of the well-studied notion of harmonic maps in Riemannian geometry. In this article we consider maps into the Euclidean sphere and investigate a geometric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-09 Volker Branding

The problem of packing ellipsoids of different sizes and shapes into an ellipsoidal container so as to minimize a measure of overlap between ellipsoids is considered. A bilevel optimization formulation is given, together with an algorithm…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-04-03 Caroline Uhler , Stephen J. Wright

Ellipsoidal harmonics are a useful generalization of spherical harmonics but present additional numerical challenges. One such challenge is in computing ellipsoidal normalization constants which require approximating a singular integral. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-05 Thomas S. Klotz , Jaydeep P. Bardhan , Matthew G. Knepley

Real-world knowledge is often organized as hierarchies such as product taxonomies, medical ontologies, and label trees, yet learning hierarchical representations is challenging due to asymmetric structure and noisy semantics. We introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Sahil Mishra , Srinitish Srinivasan , Sourish Dasgupta , Tanmoy Chakraborty

Many biological and physical systems exhibit behaviour at multiple spatial, temporal or population scales. Multiscale processes provide challenges when they are to be simulated using numerical techniques. While coarser methods such as…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-02-12 Cameron A. Smith , Christian A. Yates

The recent development of spectral method has been praised for its high-order convergence in simulating complex physical problems. The combination of embedded boundary method and spectral method becomes a mainstream way to tackle…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-08 Po-Yi Wu , Cheng-Hong Robert Kao , Tony Wen-Hann Sheu

We deliver a call to arms for probabilistic numerical methods: algorithms for numerical tasks, including linear algebra, integration, optimization and solving differential equations, that return uncertainties in their calculations. Such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-17 Philipp Hennig , Michael A Osborne , Mark Girolami

Evolutionary computation offers a variety of tools to solve complex real-world optimization problems. However, research often focuses on smaller, simplified problems and optimization algorithms that sometimes miss expectations in real-world…

Scalar, vector and tensor harmonics on the three-sphere were introduced originally to facilitate the study of various problems in gravitational physics. These harmonics are defined as eigenfunctions of the covariant Laplace operator which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-01 Lee Lindblom , Nicholas W. Taylor , Fan Zhang

The hyperspherical harmonic basis is used to describe bound states in an $A$--body system. The approach presented here is based on the representation of the potential energy in terms of hyperspherical harmonic functions. Using this…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-05-13 M. Gattobigio , A. Kievsky , M. Viviani , P. Barletta

3D image processing constitutes nowadays a challenging topic in many scientific fields such as medicine, computational physics and informatics. Therefore, development of suitable tools that guaranty a best treatment is a necessity.…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Malika Jallouli , Wafa Bel Hadj Khalifa , Anouar Ben Mabrouk , Mohamed Ali Mahjoub

We consider a finite element method for elliptic equation with heterogeneous and possibly high-contrast coefficients based on primal hybrid formulation. A space decomposition as in FETI and BDCC allows a sequential computations of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-29 Alexandre L. Madureira , Marcus Sarkis