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Real-space refinement of atomic models in macromolecular crystallography or in cryo electron microscopy fits a model to a map obtained experimentally. This requires generating model maps of a limited resolution which moreover may vary from…

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This paper presents theoretical analysis and software implementation for real harmonics analysis on the special orthogonal group. Noncommutative harmonic analysis for complex-valued functions on the special orthogonal group has been studied…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Taeyoung Lee

Spherical functions appear throughout computer graphics, from spherical harmonic lighting and precomputed radiance transfer to neural radiance fields and procedural planet rendering. Efficient evaluation is critical for real-time…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Mohamed Abouagour , Eleftherios Garyfallidis

We accelerate the computation of spherical harmonic transforms, using what is known as the butterfly scheme. This provides a convenient alternative to the approach taken in the second paper from this series on "Fast algorithms for spherical…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-05-14 Mark Tygert

In many applications data are measured or defined on a spherical manifold; spherical harmonic transforms are then required to access the frequency content of the data. We derive algorithms to perform forward and inverse spin spherical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-28 J. D. McEwen

Spherical harmonics (SH) have been extensively used as a basis for analyzing the morphology of particles in granular mechanics. The use of SH is facilitated by mapping the particle coordinates onto a unit sphere, in practice often a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-11-14 Mahmoud Shaqfa , Wim M. van Rees

A fast algorithm (linear in the degrees of freedom) for the solution of linear variable-coefficient rational-order fractional integral and differential equations is described. The approach is related to the ultraspherical method for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-04 Nicholas Hale , Sheehan Olver

The orthonormal set of Spherical Harmonics provides a natural way of expanding whole sky redshift and peculiar velocity surveys.

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Ofer Lahav

We develop a systematic framework for constructing spherical harmonics on the two-dimensional unit sphere as superpositions of Gaussian beams whose poles form well-separated point configurations. The distributional and analytic properties…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Xiaolong Han

We describe an algorithm for computing an inverse spherical harmonic transform suitable for graphic processing units (GPU). We use CUDA and base our implementation on a Fortran90 routine included in a publicly available parallel package,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-05-22 Ioan O. Hupca , Joel Falcou , Laura Grigori , Radek Stompor

Recent microscopy imaging techniques allow to precisely analyze cell morphology in 3D image data. To process the vast amount of image data generated by current digitized imaging techniques, automated approaches are demanded more than ever.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Dennis Eschweiler , Malte Rethwisch , Simon Koppers , Johannes Stegmaier

A linear quantum harmonic oscillator factors into one dimensional oscillators and can be solved using creation and annihilation operators. We consider a spherical analogue. This analogue does not factor. The two dimensional case is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Van Higgs , Doug Pickrell

Many quantum algorithms make use of oracles which evaluate classical functions on a superposition of inputs. In order to facilitate implementation, testing, and resource estimation of such algorithms, we present quantum circuits for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-01 Thomas Häner , Martin Roetteler , Krysta M. Svore

A collection of algorithms is described for numerically computing with smooth functions defined on the unit sphere. Functions are approximated to essentially machine precision by using a structure-preserving iterative variant of Gaussian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-05 Alex Townsend , Heather Wilber , Grady B. Wright

Spherical Harmonic Gaussian type orbitals and Slater functions can be expressed using spherical coordinates or a linear combinations of the appropriate Cartesian functions. General expressions for the transformation coefficients between the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-21 Chiara Ribaldone , Jacques Kontak Desmarais

We present a general method for accelerating by more than an order of magnitude the convolution of pixelated functions on the sphere with a radially-symmetric kernel. Our method splits the kernel into a compact real-space component and a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-31 P. M. Sutter , Benjamin D. Wandelt , Franz Elsner

Series representations consisting of spherical harmonics are obtained for characteristic exponents and probability density functions of multivariate stable distributions under various conditions. A esult potentially applicable in a…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-10-18 Zhiyi Chi

Order parameters based on spherical harmonics and Fourier coefficients already play a significant role in condensed matter research in the context of systems of spherical or point particles. Here, we extend these types of order parameter to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-12-22 Aaron S. Keys , Christopher R. Iacovella , Sharon C. Glotzer

The eigenfunctions of the Laplacian are a natural basis of functions for many tasks in computational mathematics. On the circle and sphere, the eigenfunctions are given by complex periodic exponentials and spherical harmonics, respectively,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Paul G. Beckman , Samuel F. Potter , Michael O'Neil

Harmonic analysis is a tool to infer cosmic topology from the measured astrophysical cosmic microwave background CMB radiation. For overall positive curvature, Platonic spherical manifolds are candidates for this analysis. We combine the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Peter Kramer