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In the first part, we concentrate on CFTs in coordinate space. We lay the foundations of Conformal Field Theory and we also demonstrate a method where by using the embedding formalism we can derive up to n-point scalar conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-26 Dimosthenis Theofilopoulos

The paper presents a new and simple range characterization for the spherical mean transform of functions supported in the unit ball in even dimensions. It complements the previous work of the same authors, where they solved an analogous…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-05-01 Divyansh Agrawal , Gaik Ambartsoumian , Venkateswaran P. Krishnan , Nisha Singhal

We propose nonparametric estimators for the second-order central moments of possibly anisotropic spherical random fields, within a functional data analysis context. We consider a measurement framework where each random field among an…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Alessia Caponera , Julien Fageot , Matthieu Simeoni , Victor M. Panaretos

Classical functional calculus is primarily spectral, capturing eigenvalue information through resolvent methods while largely ignoring nilpotent structure. Building on the projector-nilpotent characterization developed in our companion…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Shih-Yu Chang

Spinor gravity is a functional integral formulation of gravity based only on fundamental spinor fields. The vielbein and metric arise as composite objects. Due to the lack of local Lorentz-symmetry new invariants in the effective…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Wetterich

In this paper the notion of an abstract square function (estimate) is introduced as an operator X to gamma (H; Y), where X, Y are Banach spaces, H is a Hilbert space, and gamma(H; Y) is the space of gamma-radonifying operators. By the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2013-11-05 Bernhard Hermann Haak , Markus Haase

The problem of reconstruction a function from spherical means is at the heart of several modern imaging modalities and other applications. In this paper we derive universal back-projection type reconstruction formulas for recovering a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-01-20 Markus Haltmeier

We present a comprehensive construction of scalar, vector and tensor harmonics on maximally symmetric three-dimensional spaces. Our formalism relies on the introduction of spin-weighted spherical harmonics and a generalized helicity basis…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-25 Cyril Pitrou , Thiago S. Pereira

The representation theory of tensor functions is a powerful mathematical tool for constitutive modeling of anisotropic materials. A major limitation of the traditional theory is that many point groups require fourth- or sixth-order…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Mohammad Madadi , Pu Zhang

We give an analysis of the spin-weighted Green's functions well-defined in a conical space. We apply these results in the case of a straight cosmic string and in the Rindler space in order to determine generally the Euclidean Green's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 B. Linet

We generalize the translation invariant tensor-valued Minkowski Functionals which are defined on two-dimensional flat space to the unit sphere. We apply them to level sets of random fields. The contours enclosing boundaries of level sets of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 Pravabati Chingangbam , K P Yogendran , Joby P. K. , Vidhya Ganesan , Stephen Appleby , Changbom Park

Isotropic positive definite functions on spheres play important roles in spatial statistics, where they occur as the correlation functions of homogeneous random fields and star-shaped random particles. In approximation theory, strictly…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-10-02 Tilmann Gneiting

Moment invariants are a powerful tool for the generation of rotation-invariant descriptors needed for many applications in pattern detection, classification, and machine learning. A set of invariants is optimal if it is complete,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Roxana Bujack , Emily Shinkle , Alice Allen , Tomas Suk , Nicholas Lubbers

We study the tomography of propagators for spin systems in the context of finite-dimensional Wigner representations, which completely characterize and visualize operators using shapes assembled from linear combinations of spherical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-12 David Leiner , Steffen J. Glaser

The irreducible tensor operators and their tensor products employing Racah algebra are studied. Transformation procedure of the coordinate system operators act on are introduced. The rotation matrices and their parametrization by the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 R. Jursenas , G. Merkelis

In the articles [1] and [2] of D. Finch, M. Haltmeier, S. Patch and D. Rakesh inversion formulas were found in any dimension $n\geq2$ for recovering a smooth function with compact support in the unit ball from spherical means centered on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-08-29 Yehonatan Salman

The spin foam formalism provides transition amplitudes for loop quantum gravity. Important aspects of the dynamics are understood, but many open questions are pressing on. In this paper we address some of them using a twistorial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Simone Speziale , Wolfgang M. Wieland

We propose an approach to the quantum-mechanical description of relativistic orientable objects. It generalizes Wigner's ideas concerning the treatment of nonrelativistic orientable objects (in particular, a nonrelativistic rotator) with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-07-22 D. Gitman , A. Shelepin

In this article, we give all the Weitzenb\"ock-type formulas among the geometric first order differential operators on the spinor fields with spin $j+1/2$ over Riemannian spin manifolds of constant curvature. Then we find an explicit…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-21 Yasushi Homma , Takuma Tomihisa

Electrodynamic spherical harmonic is a second rank tensor in three-dimensional space. It allows to separate the radial and angle variables in vector solutions of Maxwell's equations. Using the orthonormalization for electrodynamic spherical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-03-31 Andrey Novitsky