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Numerical integration on spheres, including the computation of the areas of spherical triangles, is a core computation in geomathematics. The commonly used techniques sometimes suffer from instabilities and significant loss of accuracy. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-08 Yipeng Li , Xiangmin Jiao

Space-filling designs are popular choices for computer experiments. A sliced design is a design that can be partitioned into several subdesigns. We propose a new type of sliced space-filling design called sliced rotated sphere packing…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-08-07 Xu He

We propose an algorithm for robust recovery of the spherical harmonic expansion of functions defined on the d-dimensional unit sphere $\mathbb{S}^{d-1}$ using a near-optimal number of function evaluations. We show that for any $f \in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Amir Zandieh , Insu Han , Haim Avron

This paper is concerned with the use of the stereographic projection to map the points of a design on the sphere in three dimensions onto a two-dimensional stereogram. Details of the projection and its attendant stereogram are given and the…

Applications · Statistics 2024-07-08 Linda M. Haines

It is natural to expect the following loosely stated approximation principle to hold: a numerical approximation solution should be in some sense as smooth as its target exact solution in order to have optimal convergence. For piecewise…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-12-25 So-Hsiang Chou

Approximating a function with a finite series, e.g., involving polynomials or trigonometric functions, is a critical tool in computing and data analysis. The construction of such approximations via now-standard approaches like least squares…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-30 Dihan Dai , Yekaterina Epshteyn , Akil Narayan

Creating spherical initial conditions in smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations that are spherically conformal is a difficult task. Here, we describe two algorithmic methods for evenly distributing points on surfaces, that when paired…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-06 Cody Raskin , J. Michael Owen

The concept of spherical $t$-design, which is a finite subset of the unit sphere, was introduced by Delsarte-Goethals-Seidel (1977). The concept of Euclidean $t$-design, which is a two step generalization of spherical design in the sense…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-05-14 Eiichi Bannai , Etsuko Bannai

Finite element methods usually construct basis functions and quadrature rules for multidimensional domains via tensor products of one-dimensional counterparts. While straightforward, this approach results in integration spaces larger than…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Tomas Teijeiro , Pouria Behnoudfar , Jamie M. Taylor , David Pardo , Victor M. Calo

This expository paper provides a unified and pedagogical introduction to optimal quantization for probability measures supported on spherical curves and discrete subsets of the sphere, emphasizing both continuous and discrete settings. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-25 Mrinal Kanti Roychowdhury

We prove a novel method for the embedding of a 3-fold rotationally symmetric sphere-type mesh onto a subset of the plane with 3-fold rotational symmetry. The embedding is free-boundary with the only additional constraint on the image set is…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Tom Gilat , Ben Gilat

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-04 Mrinal Kanti Roychowdhury

We determine putative optimal packings of regular spherical polygons via optimization on smooth manifolds. For several cases, we establish maximality by extending the Lov\'asz theta number to Cayley graphs on the special orthogonal group…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Fernando Mário de Oliveira Filho , Andreas Spomer , Frank Vallentin

We show that the spectral embeddings of all known triangle-free strongly regular graphs are optimal spherical codes (the new cases are $56$ points in $20$ dimensions, $50$ points in $21$ dimensions, and $77$ points in $21$ dimensions), as…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Henry Cohn , David de Laat , Nando Leijenhorst

Fully symmetric positive interior (f-SPI) quadrature rules are key building blocks for high-order discretizations of partial differential equations, yet high-degree rules with few nodes remain scarce on reference elements commonly used in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Moustapha Diallo , Zelalem Arega Worku

A $\textit{spherical $t$-design curve}$ was defined by Ehler and Gr\"{o}chenig to be a continuous, piecewise smooth, closed curve on the sphere with finitely many self-intersections whose associated line integral applied to any polynomial…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Ayodeji Lindblad

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

3D image processing constitutes nowadays a challenging topic in many scientific fields such as medicine, computational physics and informatics. Therefore, development of suitable tools that guaranty a best treatment is a necessity.…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Malika Jallouli , Wafa Bel Hadj Khalifa , Anouar Ben Mabrouk , Mohamed Ali Mahjoub

In [1], the author considered the problem of the optimal approximation of symmetric surfaces by biquadratic B\'ezier patches. Unfortunately, the results therein are incorrect, which is shown in this paper by considering the optimal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-09 Aleš Vavpetič , Emil Žagar

Inspired by the structure of spherical harmonics, we propose the truncated kernel stochastic gradient descent (T-kernel SGD) algorithm with a least-square loss function for spherical data fitting. T-kernel SGD introduces a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Jinhui Bai , Lei Shi