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A program to calculate the three-particle hyperspherical brackets is presented. Test results are listed and it is seen that the program is well applicable up to very high values of the hypermomentum and orbital momenta. The listed runs show…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-16 Victor D. Efros

This short paper is concerned with the use of spherical t-designs as optimal designs for the spherical harmonic regression model in three dimensions over a range of specified criteria. The nature of the designs is explored and their…

Applications · Statistics 2024-11-21 Linda M. Haines

We present libsharp, a code library for spherical harmonic transforms (SHTs), which evolved from the libpsht library, addressing several of its shortcomings, such as adding MPI support for distributed memory systems and SHTs of fields with…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Martin Reinecke , Dag Sverre Seljebotn

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

Quantum algorithms have begun to surpass classical ones in several computation fields, yet practical application remains challenging due to hardware and software limitations. Here, we introduce a quantum algorithm that quadratically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-15 Saul Gonzalez , Parfait Atchade-Adelomou

Spin-weighted spheroidal harmonics are useful in a variety of physical situations, including light scattering, nuclear modeling, signal processing, electromagnetic wave propagation, black hole perturbation theory in four and higher…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Emanuele Berti , Vitor Cardoso , Marc Casals

This paper provides a survey of spherical designs and their applications, with a particular emphasis on the perspective of ``numerical analysis''. A set \(X_N\) of \(N\) points on the unit sphere \(\mathbb{S}^d\) is called a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Congpei An , Xiaosheng Zhuang

Scalar, vector and tensor harmonics on the three-sphere were introduced originally to facilitate the study of various problems in gravitational physics. These harmonics are defined as eigenfunctions of the covariant Laplace operator which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-01 Lee Lindblom , Nicholas W. Taylor , Fan Zhang

The transport of charged particles or photons in a scattering medium can be modelled with a Boltzmann equation. The mathematical treatment for scattering in such scenarios is often simplified if evaluated in a frame where the scattering…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-02-27 Nils W. Schween , Brian Reville

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

The development of accurate and fast numerical schemes for the five fold Boltzmann collision integral represents a challenging problem in scientific computing. For a particular class of interactions, including the so-called hard spheres…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Clément Mouhot , Lorenzo Pareschi

A genuinely three-dimensional system, viz. the hyperbolic 4-sphere scattering system, is investigated with classical, semiclassical, and quantum mechanical methods at various center-to-center separations of the spheres. The efficiency and…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Main , E. Atilgan , H. S. Taylor , G. Wunner

In this paper, we present a robust spherical harmonics approach for the classification of point cloud-based objects. Spherical harmonics have been used for classification over the years, with several frameworks existing in the literature.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Ayman Mukhaimar , Ruwan Tennakoon , Chow Yin Lai , Reza Hoseinnezhad , Alireza Bab-Hadiashar

We present in this paper a spectrally accurate numerical method for computing the spherical/vector spherical harmonic expansion of a function/vector field with given (elemental) nodal values on a spherical surface. Built upon suitable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-18 Bo Wang , Li-Lian Wang , Ziqing Xie

We present Wavemoth, an experimental open source code for computing scalar spherical harmonic transforms (SHTs). Such transforms are ubiquitous in astronomical data analysis. Our code performs substantially better than existing publicly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-17 D. S. Seljebotn

We construct spherical harmonics for fuzzy spheres of even and odd dimensions, generalizing the correspondence between finite matrix algebras and fuzzy two-spheres. The finite matrix algebras associated with the various fuzzy spheres have a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Sanjaye Ramgoolam

We introduce a fast algorithm for computing sparse Fourier transforms supported on smooth curves or surfaces. This problem appear naturally in several important problems in wave scattering and reflection seismology. The main observation is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-01-11 Lexing Ying

We present the formalism for calculating the femtoscopic correlation function directly in spherical harmonics. The numerator and denominator are stored as a set of one-dimensional histograms representing the spherical harmonic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-01-11 Adam Kisiel , David A. Brown

We discuss in some details a novel algorithm for performing partial-sky spherical harmonic transforms (SHT), building on the Fourier-sphere method of Reinecke et al (2023) handling efficiently high numbers of arbitrary locations on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-20 Julien Carron , Martin Reinecke

The well-known spatial integration schemes in molecular electronic structure theory, immune to cusps and point singularities of some kind at atomic positions, use a set of weighting functions to split the integrand into a sum of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Dimitri N. Laikov