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We obtain new consistent Kaluza-Klein embeddings of the gauged supergravities with half of maximal supersymmetry in dimensions D=7, 6, 5 and 4. They take the form of warped embeddings in type IIA, type IIB, M-theory and type IIB…
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In De Simoi J., Kaloshin V., Wei Q. "Dynamical spectral rigidity among $\mathbb{Z}_2$-symmetric strictly convex domains close to a circle" (Appendix B coauthored with H. Hezari) Ann. of Math. 186.1 (2017), pp. 277-314 deformational spectral…
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The orthonormal set of Spherical Harmonics provides a natural way of expanding whole sky redshift and peculiar velocity surveys.
The authors prepared this booklet in order to make several useful topics from the theory of special functions, in particular the spherical harmonics and Legendre polynomials for any dimension, available to undergraduates studying physics or…