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The Steklov problem on a compact Lipschitz domain is to find harmonic functions on the interior whose outward normal derivative on the boundary is some multiple (eigenvalue) of its trace on the boundary. These eigenvalues form the Steklov…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Spencer Bullent

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

Quantum mechanics dictates the band-structure of materials that is essential for functional electronic components. With increased miniaturization of devices, it becomes possible to exploit the full potential of quantum mechanics through the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-26 Kasper Poulsen , Alan C. Santos , Lasse B. Kristensen , Nikolaj T. Zinner

The optical properties of a concentric nanometer-sized spherical shell comprised of an (active) 3-level gain medium core and a surrounding plasmonic metal shell are investigated. Current research in optical metamaterials has demonstrated…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Joshua A. Gordon , Richard W. Ziolkowski

Semantic segmentation for spherical data is a challenging problem in machine learning since conventional planar approaches require projecting the spherical image to the Euclidean plane. Representing the signal on a fundamentally different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Thomas Walker , Varun Anand , Pavlos Andreadis

Dual pseudo splines constitute a new class of refinable functions with B-splines as special examples, which was introduced in \cite{DHSS}. In this paper, we shall construct Riesz wavelet associated with dual pseudo splines. Furthermore, we…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-19 Yi Shen , Song Li

Linear operations on coefficients in the spherical harmonics (SH) transform domain that again yield SH-domain coefficients are an important toolset in many disciplines of research and engineering. They comprise rotations, spatially…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-30 Maximilian Kentgens , Peter Jax

A study of correlations in tractable multiparticle cascade models in terms of wavelets reveals many promising features. The selfsimilar construction of the wavelet basis functions and their multiscale localization properties provide a new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-01 Martin Greiner , Jens Giesemann , Peter Lipa , Peter Carruthers

In the present paper we survey the most recent classification results for proper biharmonic submanifolds in unit Euclidean spheres. We also obtain some new results concerning geometric properties of proper biharmonic constant mean curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-08-24 A. Balmuş , S. Montaldo , C. Oniciuc

Superscattering, induced by degenerate resonances, breaks the fundamental single-channel limit of scattering cross section of subwavelength structures; in principle, an arbitrarily large total cross section can be achieved via…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-12-17 Chao Qian , Xiao Lin , Yi Yang , Xiaoyan Xiong , Huaping Wang , Erping Li , Ido Kaminer , Baile Zhang , Hongsheng Chen

In this paper we explore the transmission properties of single subwavelength apertures perforated in thin metallic films flanked by asymmetric configurations of periodic arrays of indentations. It is shown how the corrugation in the input…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Bravo-Abad , F. J. Garcia-Vidal , L. Martin-Moreno

Characteristic modes of a spherical shell are found analytically as spherical harmonics normalized to radiate unitary power and to fulfill specific boundary conditions. The presented closed-form formulas lead to a proposal of precise…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-02-19 Miloslav Capek , Vit Losenicky , Lukas Jelinek , Mats Gustafsson

This is the first report on Working Paper WP-RFM-14-01. The potential and capability of sparse representations is well-known. However, their (multivariate variable) vectorial form, which is completely fine in many fields and disciplines,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-04-16 Reza Farrahi Moghaddam , Mohamed Cheriet

Motivated by previous investigations on the radiative effects of the electric dipoles embedded in structured cavities, localization of electromagnetic waves in two dimensions is studied {\it ab initio} for a system consisting of many…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 Zhen Ye , Sheng Li , Xin Sub

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

The goal of these lectures is to explain speaker's results on uniqueness properties of spherical varieties. By a uniqueness property we mean the following. Consider some special class of spherical varieties. Define some combinatorial…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-05-30 Ivan Losev

Observations suggest that our universe is spatially flat on the largest observable scales. Exactly six different compact orientable three-dimensional manifolds admit flat metrics. These six manifolds are therefore the most natural choices…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-16 Zhi-Peng Peng , Lee Lindblom , Fan Zhang

We study the propagation and scattering of electromagnetic waves by random arrays of dipolar cylinders in a uniform medium. A set of self-consistent equations, incorporating all orders of multiple scattering of the electromagnetic waves, is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Ken Wang , Zhen Ye

In a recent experiment Campbell et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 020406 (2006)] observed degenerate four-wave mixing of matter-waves in a one-dimensional optical lattice, a process with potential for generating entanglement among atoms. We…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 M. K. Olsen , M. J. Davis

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