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The work develops further the theory of the following inversion problem, which plays the central role in the rapidly developing area of thermoacoustic tomography and has intimate connections with PDEs and integral geometry: {\it Reconstruct…

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This paper defines and discusses a set of rectangular all-sky projections which have no singular points, notably the Tesselated Octahedral Adaptive Spherical Transformation (or TOAST) developed initially for the WorldWide Telescope (WWT).…

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We revisit the notion of WSPD (i.e., well-separated pairs-decomposition), presenting a new construction of WSPD for any finite metric space, and show that it is asymptotically instance-optimal in size. Next, we describe a new WSPD…

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We consider the task of performing quantum state tomography on a $d$-level spin qudit, using only measurements of spin projection onto different quantization axes. After introducing a basis of operators closely related to the spherical…

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In this paper, we present the implicit equations for one special class of real-valued spherical harmonics with octahedral symmetry. Based on this representation, we construct the rotationally invariant measure of deviation from the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Yuri Nesterenko

We present a simple, accurate method for computing singular or nearly singular integrals on a smooth, closed surface, such as layer potentials for harmonic functions evaluated at points on or near the surface. The integral is computed with…

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An overview of the mathematical structure of the three-dimensional (3D) Ising model is given, from the viewpoints of topologic, algebraic and geometric aspects. By analyzing the relations among transfer matrices of the 3D Ising model,…

General Physics · Physics 2013-05-15 Zhi-dong Zhang

In this paper, we will establish a general method of studying finite-dimensional normed spaces, and apply this method to classifying $3$-dimensional and $4$-dimensional normed spaces over a non-spherically complete field. For this purpose,…

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We present an analytically explicit study of optimal discrete quantization on spherical geometries equipped with the geodesic metric, focusing on highly symmetric configurations on the unit sphere $\mathbb S^2$. Three discrete uniform…

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Spatial smoothing is a widely used preprocessing scheme to improve the performance of high-resolution parameter estimation algorithms in case of coherent signals or if only a small number of snapshots is available. In this paper, we present…

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Sphere decoding (SD) of polar codes is an efficient method to achieve the error performance of maximum likelihood (ML) decoding. But the complexity of the conventional sphere decoder is still high, where the candidates in a target sphere…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-14 Kai Niu , Kai Chen , Jiaru Lin

We propose a numerical method to compute the inertial modes of a container with near-spherical geometry based on the fully spectral discretisation of the angular and radial directions using spherical harmonics and Gegenbauer polynomial…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-04-11 J. Rekier , A. Trinh , S. A. Triana , V. Dehant

A unified algebraic construction of the classical Smorodinsky-Winternitz systems on the ND sphere, Euclidean and hyperbolic spaces through the Lie groups SO(N+1), ISO(N), and SO(N,1) is presented. Firstly, general expressions for the…

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Stepped wedge designs (SWDs) are increasingly used to evaluate longitudinal cluster-level interventions but pose substantial challenges for valid inference. Because crossover times are randomized, intervention effects are intrinsically…

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The purpose of this work is to introduce a strategy for determining the nodes and weights of a low-cardinality positive cubature formula nearly exact for polynomials of a given degree over spherical polygons. In the numerical section we…

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In this paper we propose and analyze a (temporally) third order accurate exponential time differencing (ETD) numerical scheme for the no-slope-selection (NSS) equation of the epitaxial thin film growth model, with Fourier pseudo-spectral…

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Spherically embedded spatial data are spatially indexed observations whose values naturally reside on or can be equivalently mapped to the unit sphere. Such data are increasingly ubiquitous in fields ranging from geochemistry to demography.…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-26 Jiazhen Xu , Han Lin Shang

In this paper we propose a new kind of high order numerical scheme for backward stochastic differential equations(BSDEs). Unlike the traditional $\theta$-scheme, we reduce truncation errors by taking $\theta$ carefully for every subinterval…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-08 Chol-Kyu Pak , Mun-Chol Kim , Chang-Ho Rim