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Obtaining general relations between macroscopic properties of random assemblies, such as density, and the microscopic properties of their constituent particles, such as shape, is a foundational challenge in the study of amorphous materials.…

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Spherical harmonics provide a smooth, orthogonal, and symmetry-adapted basis to expand functions on a sphere, and they are used routinely in physical and theoretical chemistry as well as in different fields of science and technology, from…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-05-02 Filippo Bigi , Guillaume Fraux , Nicholas J. Browning , Michele Ceriotti

Spherical coverings on the S2 sphere and their algebraic numbers are given for the putatively optimal global solutions for some n-congruent spherical caps with minimal radius to completely cover the S2 sphere. A few locally optimal…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-08-12 Randall L. Rathbun

A method is given for finding small inhomogeneities from surface scattering data. The method consists in localization of the positions and finding the intensities of these small inhomogeneities. The case of acoustic wave scattering is…

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We introduce a simple representation for isotropic spherical random fields and we discuss how it allows to discuss different notions of sparsity under isotropy. We also show how a suitable construction of sparse fields can mimic well the…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Giacomo Greco , Domenico Marinucci

We investigate the small scale equidistribution properties of random waves in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$. Numerical evidence suggests that such objects display a fine scale filament structure. We show that the X-ray along any line segment is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-10 Melissa Tacy

We asymptotically estimate the variance of the number of lattice points in a thin, randomly rotated annulus lying on the surface of the sphere. This partially resolves a conjecture of Bourgain, Rudnick, and Sarnak. We also obtain estimates…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-07-25 Peter Humphries , Maksym Radziwiłł

We develop a sampling scheme on the sphere that permits accurate computation of the spherical harmonic transform and its inverse for signals band-limited at $L$ using only $L^2$ samples. We obtain the optimal number of samples given by the…

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We study the weak convergence (in the high-frequency limit) of the parameter estimators of power spectrum coefficients associated with Gaussian, spherical and isotropic random fields. In particular, we introduce a Whittle-type approximate…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-02-05 Claudio Durastanti , Xiaohong Lan , Domenico Marinucci

The semiclassical Schr\"{o}dinger equation with multiscale and random potentials often appears when studying electron dynamics in heterogeneous quantum systems. As time evolves, the wavefunction develops high-frequency oscillations in both…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-02 Jingrun Chen , Dingjiong Ma , Zhiwen Zhang

We survey the classification of the Riemannian metrics on spheres with respect to which all equators are minimal hypersurfaces, and discuss problems related to these geometries.

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Solutions to the stochastic wave equation on the unit sphere are approximated by spectral methods. Strong, weak, and almost sure convergence rates for the proposed numerical schemes are provided and shown to depend only on the smoothness of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-06 David Cohen , Annika Lang

The minimal spherical cap dispersion ${\rm disp}_{\mathcal{C}}(n,d)$ is the largest number $\varepsilon\in (0,1]$ such that, for every $n$ points on the $d$-dimensional Euclidean unit sphere $\mathbb{S}^d$, there exists a spherical cap with…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Alexander E. Litvak , Mathias Sonnleitner , Tomasz Szczepanski

We study the spectrum of a random matrix, whose elements depend on the Euclidean distance between points randomly distributed in space. This problem is widely studied in the context of the Instantaneous Normal Modes of fluids and is…

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We prove upper and lower bounds on the minimal spherical dispersion, improving upon previous estimates obtained by Rote and Tichy [Spherical dispersion with an application to polygonal approximation of curves, Anz. \"Osterreich. Akad. Wiss.…

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The entropy of a spherically symmetric distribution of matter in self-equilibrium is calculated. When gravitational effects are neglected, the entropy of the system is proportional to its volume. As effects due to gravitational…

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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…

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A celebrated result of Legendre and Gauss determines which integers can be represented as a sum of three squares, and for those it is typically the case that there are many ways of doing so. These different representations give collections…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-18 Jean Bourgain , Peter Sarnak , Zeév Rudnick

We determine the asymptotic law for the fluctuations of the total number of critical points of random Gaussian spherical harmonics in the high degree limit. Our results have implications on the sophistication degree of an appropriate…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-01-09 Valentina Cammarota , Igor Wigman

Let $K\subset\mathbb S^{d-1}$ be a convex spherical body. Denote by $\Delta(K)$ the distance between two random points in $K$ and denote by $\sigma(K)$ the length of a random chord of $K$. We explicitly express the distribution of…

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