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In this short note we propose a new method for construction new nice arrangement on the sphere $S^d$ using the spaces of spherical harmonic.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2008-11-27 Andriy Bondarenko

This paper presents recent results obtained by the authors (partly in collaboration with A. Dabrowska) concerning expansions of zonal functions on Euclidean spheres into spherical harmonics and some applications of such expansions for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-04-24 Agata Bezubik , Aleksander Strasburger

A method is described by which a function defined on a cubic grid (as from a finite difference solution of a partial differential equation) can be resolved into spherical harmonic components at some fixed radius. This has applications to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 Charles W. Misner

In this paper a local approximation method on the sphere is presented. As interpolation scheme we consider a partition of unity method, such as the modified spherical Shepard's method, which uses zonal basis functions (ZBFs) plus spherical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-08 Alessandra De Rossi

A complete discrete set of spherical single-particle wave functions for studies of weakly-bound many-body systems is proposed. The new basis is obtained by means of a local-scale point transformation of the spherical harmonic oscillator…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 M. V. Stoitsov , W. Nazarewicz , S. Pittel

Recovering frequency-localized functions from pointwise data is a fundamental task in signal processing. We examine this problem from an approximation-theoretic perspective, focusing on least squares and deep learning-based methods. First,…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-12-10 A. Martina Neuman , Andres Felipe Lerma Pineda , Jason J. Bramburger , Simone Brugiapaglia

We introduce a new basis function (the spherical gaussian) for electronic structure calculations on spheres of any dimension $D$. We find \alert{general} expressions for the one- and two-electron integrals and propose an efficient…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-09 Peter M. W. Gill , Pierre-François Loos , Davids Agboola

In recent years, sparse spectral methods for solving partial differential equations have been derived using hierarchies of classical orthogonal polynomials on intervals, disks, disk-slices and triangles. In this work we extend the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-22 Ben Snowball , Sheehan Olver

In this paper we introduce a polynomial frame on the unit sphere $\sph$ of $\mathbb{R}^d$, for which every distribution has a wavelet-type decomposition. More importantly, we prove that many function spaces on the sphere $\sph$, such as…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Feng Dai

Slepian functions are orthogonal function systems that live on subdomains (for example, geographical regions on the Earth's surface, or bandlimited portions of the entire spectrum). They have been firmly established as a useful tool for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-10 Volker Michel , Frederik J. Simons

Subspaces obtained by the orthogonal projection of locally supported square-integrable vector fields onto the Hardy spaces $H_+(\mathbb{S})$ and $H_-(\mathbb{S})$, respectively, play a role in various inverse potential field problems since…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-06 Christian Gerhards , Xinpeng Huang

The study of spherical harmonics in superspace, introduced in [J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 40 (2007) 7193-7212], is further elaborated. A detailed description of spherical harmonics of degree k is given in terms of bosonic and fermionic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-05-14 H. De Bie , D. Eelbode , F. Sommen

We develop a systematic framework for constructing spherical harmonics on the two-dimensional unit sphere as superpositions of Gaussian beams whose poles form well-separated point configurations. The distributional and analytic properties…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Xiaolong Han

The classical Fourier analysis of a time signal, in the discrete sense, provides the frequency content of signal under the assumption of periodicity. Although the original signal can be exactly recovered using an inverse transform, the time…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-06 Vilas J. Shinde

In the last few decades a series of increasingly sophisticated satellite missions has brought us gravity and magnetometry data of ever improving quality. To make optimal use of this rich source of information on the structure of Earth and…

Geophysics · Physics 2013-06-28 Alain Plattner , Frederik J. Simons

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 a novel basis of vector functions, the mixed vector spherical harmonics that are closely related to the functions $F_{lm}$ of Sheppard and T\"or\"ok and help us reduce the concentration problem of tangential vector fields within…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2013-08-20 Kornél Jahn , Nándor Bokor

Many flexible parameterizations exist to represent data on the sphere. In addition to the venerable spherical harmonics, we have the Slepian basis, harmonic splines, wavelets and wavelet-like Slepian frames. In this paper we focus on the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2013-06-14 Frederik J. Simons , Ignace Loris , Eugene Brevdo , Ingrid C. Daubechies

In this paper, we will revisit the Slepian spatiospectral concentration problem for the spherical Fourier-Bessel band-limited spaces introduced for 3-D domain, and discuss its general form in $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d\geq 2$. In particular, we…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-18 Xinpeng Huang

Spherical radial basis functions are used to define approximate solutions to strongly elliptic pseudodifferential equations on the unit sphere. These equations arise from geodesy. The approximate solutions are found by the Galerkin and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-11-27 T. D. Pham , T. Tran