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Context. The potential field source surface model is frequently used as a basis for further scientific investigations where a comprehensive coronal magnetic field is of importance. Its parameters, especially the position and shape of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 Martin Kruse , Verena Heidrich-Meisner , R. F. Wimmer-Schweingruber , Michael Hauptmann

Changing the spheroidal wave equations into new Schro$dinger's form, the super-potential expanded in the series form of the parameter $\alpha$are obtained in the paper. This general form of the super-potential makes it easy to get the…

General Physics · Physics 2010-04-12 Guihua Tian

It is well known that derivatives of solutions to elliptic boundary value problems may become unbounded near the corner of a domain with a conical singularity, even if the data are smooth. When the corner domain is approximated by more…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Martin Costabel , Monique Dauge

Solution of some boundary value problems and initial problems in unique ball leads to the convergence and sumability problems of Fourier series of given function by eigenfunctions of Laplace operator on a sphere - spherical harmonics. Such…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2009-03-02 Abdumalik A. Rakhimov

We discuss the solution of boundary value problems that arise after the separation of variables in the Schr\"odinger equation in oblate spheroidal coordinates. The specificity of these boundary value problems is that the singular points of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-03-06 V. N. Kovalenko , A. M. Puchkov

In this paper the classical theory of spherical harmonics in R^m is extended to superspace using techniques from Clifford analysis. After defining a super-Laplace operator and studying some basic properties of polynomial null-solutions of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Hendrik De Bie , Frank Sommen

In this paper we propose an approach of obtaining of N-dimensional spherical harmonics based exclusively on the methods of solutions of differential equations and the use of the special functions properties. We deduce the Laplace-Beltrami…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 A. Smirnov

The series solution to Laplace's equation in a helical coordinate system is derived and refined using symmetry and chirality arguments. These functions and their more commonplace counterparts are used to model solenoidal magnetic fields via…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-07-10 Brian Pollack , Ryan Pellico , Cole Kampa , Henry Glass , Michael Schmitt

Recently published formulas for the surface and regular solid spherical harmonics and for the expansion of the product of two normalized associated Legendre functions with different centers in ellipsoidal coordinates (Telhat Ozdogan, Metin…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. I. Guseinov

A spectral approach to building the exterior calculus in manifold learning problems is developed. The spectral approach is shown to converge to the true exterior calculus in the limit of large data. Simultaneously, the spectral approach…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-02-24 Tyrus Berry , Dimitrios Giannakis

This paper presents a method for the approximation of harmonic potentials that combines downward continuation of globally available data on a sphere $\Omega_R$ of radius $R$ (e.g., a satellite's orbit) with locally available data on a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-07 Christian Gerhards

The central theme in this paper is the Hopf-Laplace equation, which represents stationary solutions with respect to the inner variation of the Dirichlet integral. Among such solutions are harmonic maps. Nevertheless, minimization of the…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2012-12-06 Jan Cristina , Tadeusz Iwaniec , Leonid V. Kovalev , Jani Onninen

In this research paper, we present an exact matrix form analytical solution of the multi-dimensional generalized Langevin equation with quadratic potentials. Our investigation provides detailed expressions for the two-dimensional…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-26 Rana Imran Mushtaq , Chunyang Wang , Shi Zhi , Zengxuan Zhao , J M Nyasulu

Treatment of fields near domain boundaries is a long-standing problem in signal processing that has come into renewed focus following recent efforts in convolution-based multiscale coarse-graining and in machine-learned parameterizations…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 Benjamin A. Storer , Mehrnoush Kharghani , Alistair Adcroft , Hussein Aluie

This paper studies the third boundary problem of the Laplace equation with azimuthal symmetry.Many solutions of the boundary value problems in spherical coordinates are available in the form of infinite series of Legendre polynomials but…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-10-23 Stephane Mottin

A method is described by which a function defined on a cubic grid (as from a finite difference solution of a partial differential equation) can be resolved into spherical harmonic components at some fixed radius. This has applications to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 Charles W. Misner

We discuss spherically symmetric solutions for point-like sources in Lorentz-breaking massive gravity theories. This analysis is valid for St\"uckelberg's effective field theory formulation, for Lorentz Breaking Massive Bigravity and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-20 Andrea Addazi , Salvatore Capozziello

The boundary-value problem for the perturbation of an electric potential by a homogeneous anisotropic dielectric sphere in vacuum was formulated. The total potential in the exterior region was expanded in series of radial polynomials and…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-10-18 Akhlesh Lakhtakia , Nikolaos L. Tsitsas , Hamad M. Alkhoori

The usual spherical harmonics $Y_{\ell m}$ form a basis of the vector space ${\cal V} ^{\ell}$ (of dimension $2\ell+1$) of the eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on the sphere, with eigenvalue $\lambda_{\ell} = -\ell ~(\ell +1)$. Here we show…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2009-11-10 M. Lachieze-Rey

While it is known that any spherical fluid distribution may only source the spherically symmetric Schwarzschild space-time, the inverse is not true. Thus, in this manuscript, we find exact axially symmetric and static fluid (interior)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-09 J. L. Hernández-Pastora , L. Herrera