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The Zernike radial polynomials are a system of orthogonal polynomials over the unit interval with weight x. They are used as basis functions in optics to expand fields over the cross section of circular pupils. To calculate the roots of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Richard J. Mathar

A pattern of interpolation nodes on the disk is studied, for which the interpolation problem is theoretically unisolvent, and which renders a minimal numerical condition for the collocation matrix when the standard basis of Zernike…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-16 D. Ramos-Lopez , M. A. Sanchez-Granero , M. Fernandez-Martinez , A. Martinez-Finkelshtein

Zernike polynomials are widely used in optics and ophthalmology due to their direct connection to classical optical aberrations. While orthogonal on the unit disk, their application to discrete data or non-circular domains--such as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Sergio Díaz-Elbal , Andrei Martínez-Finkelshtein , Darío Ramos-López

The radial polynomials of the 2D (circular) and 3D (spherical) Zernike functions are tabulated as powers of the radial distance. The reciprocal tabulation of powers of the radial distance in series of radial polynomials is also given, based…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-01-07 Richard J. Mathar

Zernike polynomials are widely used mathematical models of experimentally observed optical aberrations. Their useful mathematical properties, in particular their orthogonality, make them a ubiquitous basis set for solving various problems…

Optics · Physics 2021-10-28 Jakub Czuchnowski , Robert Prevedel

Zernike polynomials are commonly used to represent the wavefront phase on circular optical apertures, since they form a complete and orthonormal basis on the unit disk. In [Diaz et all, 2014] we introduced a new Zernike basis for elliptic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-25 Chelo Ferreira , Jose L. Lopez , Rafael Navarro , Ester Perez Sinusia

A set of orthogonal polynomials on the unit disk $B(0,1)$ known as Zernike polynomials are commonly used in the analysis and evaluation of optical systems. Here Zernike polynomials are used to construct wavelets for polynomial subspaces of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Somantika Datta , Kanti B. Datta

Integration operational matrix methods based on Zernike polynomials are used to determine approximate solutions of a class of non-homogeneous partial differential equations (PDEs) of first and second order. Due to the nature of the Zernike…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-18 Kanti Bhushan Datta , Somantika Datta

The differential equation proposed by Frits Zernike to obtain a basis of polynomial orthogonal solutions on the the unit disk to classify wavefront aberrations in circular pupils, is shown to have a set of new orthonormal solution bases,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 George S. Pogosyan , Kurt Bernardo Wolf , Alexander Yakhno

Sets of orthogonal basis functions over two-dimensional circular areas--most often representing pupils in optical applications--are known in the literature for the full circle (Zernike or Jacobi polynomials) and the annulus. This work…

Optics · Physics 2017-05-08 Richard J. Mathar

This paper constructs polynomial bases that capture the structure of the de Rham complex with boundary conditions in disks and cylinders (both periodic and finite) in a way that respects rotational symmetry. The starting point is explicit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Sheehan Olver

We consider quadrature formulas based on interpolation using the basis functions $1/(1+t_kx)$ $(k=1,2,3,\ldots)$ on $[-1,1]$, where $t_k$ are parameters on the interval $(-1,1)$. We investigate two types of quadratures: quadrature formulas…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Walter Van Assche , Ingrid Vanherwegen

We establish new operational formulae of Burchnall type for the complex disk polynomials (generalized Zernike polynomials). We then use them to derive some interesting identities involving these polynomials. In particular, we establish…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-04-03 Bouchra Aharmim , Amal El Hamyani , Fouzia El Wassouli , Allal Ghanmi

This paper studies the effects on Zernike coefficients of aperture scaling, translation and rotation, when a given aberrated wavefront is described on the Zernike polynomial basis. It proposes a new analytical method for computing the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Eric Tatulli

The interpolation-regression approximation is a powerful tool in numerical analysis for reconstructing functions defined on square or triangular domains from their evaluations at a regular set of nodes. The importance of this technique lies…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Francesco Dell'Accio , Francisco Marcellán , Federico Nudo

Zernike polynomials are widely used to describe the wavefront phase as they are well suited to the circular geometry of various optical apertures. Non-conventional optical systems, such as future large optical telescopes with highly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-27 Pierre Janin-Potiron , Patrice Martinez , Marcel Carbillet

The techniques for polynomial interpolation and Gaussian quadrature are generalized to matrix-valued functions. It is shown how the zeros and rootvectors of matrix orthonormal polynomials can be used to get a quadrature formula with the…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Walter Van Assche , Ann Sinap

Zernike polynomials are commonly used to represent the wavefront phase on circular optical apertures, since they form a complete and orthonormal basis on the unit circle. Here, we present a generalization of this Zernike basis for a variety…

We revise the symmetries of the Zernike polynomials that determine the Lie algebra su(1,1) + su(1,1). We show how they induce discrete as well continuous bases that coexist in the framework of rigged Hilbert spaces. We also discuss some…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Enrico Celeghini , Manuel Gadella , Mariano A del Olmo

We consider and provide an accurate study for the fractional Zernike functions on the punctured unit disc, generalizing the classical Zernike polynomials and their associated $\beta$-restricted Zernike functions. Mainly, we give the…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2023-01-23 Hajar Dkhissi , Allal Ghanmi , Safa Snoun
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