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In this pedagogically structured article, we describe a generalized harmonic formulation of the Einstein equations in spherical symmetry which is regular at the origin. The generalized harmonic approach has attracted significant attention…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-07 Evgeny Sorkin , Matthew W. Choptuik

The Schr\"{o}dinger equation and ladder operators for the harmonic oscillator are shown to simplify through the use of an isometric conformal transformation. These results are discussed in relation to the Bargmann representation. It is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-03-04 Robert J. Ducharme

The authors present SHarmonic, a new implementation of the spherical harmonics targeted for electronic-structure calculations. Their approach is to use explicit formulas for the harmonics written in terms of normalized Cartesian…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Xavier Andrade , Jacopo Simoni , Yuan Ping , Tadashi Ogitsu , Alfredo A. Correa

The mathematical representations of data in the Spherical Harmonic (SH) domain has recently regained increasing interest in the machine learning community. This technical report gives an in-depth introduction to the theoretical foundation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Janis Keuper

In this brief note, we show how to apply Kummer's and other quadratic transformation formulas for Gauss' and generalized hypergeometric functions in order to obtain transformation and summation formulas for series with harmonic numbers that…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2019-11-28 Martin Nicholson

The rotational invariants constructed by the products of three spherical harmonic polynomials are expressed generally as homogeneous polynomials with respect to the three coordinate vectors, where the coefficients are calculated explicitly…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-04-02 Zhong-Qi Ma , Zong-Chao Yan

Multipolar expansions are a foundational tool for describing basis functions in quantum mechanics, many-body polarization, and other distributions on the unit sphere. Progress on these topics is often held back by complicated and competing…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-11-24 David M. Rogers

The connection between spherical harmonics and symmetric tensors is explored. For each spherical harmonic, a corresponding traceless symmetric tensor is constructed. These tensors are then extended to include nonzero traces, providing an…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-10-20 Francisco Gonzalez Ledesma , Matthew Mewes

Linear operations on coefficients in the spherical harmonics (SH) transform domain that again yield SH-domain coefficients are an important toolset in many disciplines of research and engineering. They comprise rotations, spatially…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-30 Maximilian Kentgens , Peter Jax

Quantum mechanics is often developed in the position representation, but this is not necessary, and one can perform calculations in a representation-independent fashion, even for wavefunctions. In this work, we illustrate how one can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 Michael Rushka , Mark Esrick , Wesley N. Mathews , J. K. Freericks

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

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

A simple approximation within the framework of the hybrid methods for the calculation of the electronic structure of solids is presented. By considering only the diagonal elements of the perturbation operator (Hartree-Fock exchange minus…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-01-31 Fabien Tran

We consider integrals of spherical harmonics with Fourier exponents on the sphere $S^n ,\, n \geq 1$. Such transforms arise in the framework of the theory of weighted Radon transforms and vector diffraction in electromagnetic fields theory.…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2017-07-11 F Goncharov

The spherically symmetric volume operator is discussed and all its eigenstates and eigenvalues are computed. Even though the operator is more complicated than its homogeneous analog, the spectra are related in the sense that the larger…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin Bojowald , Rafal Swiderski

We survey many of the important properties of spherically symmetric spacetimes as follows. We present several different ways of describing a spherically symmetric spacetime and the resulting metrics. We then focus our discussion on an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-10 Alan R. Parry

In this paper, we report on very efficient algorithms for the spherical harmonic transform (SHT). Explicitly vectorized variations of the algorithm based on the Gauss-Legendre quadrature are discussed and implemented in the SHTns library…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-01-08 Nathanaël Schaeffer

Coherent states of the two dimensional harmonic oscillator are constructed as superpositions of energy and angular momentum eigenstates. It is shown that these states are Gaussian wave-packets moving along a classical trajectory, with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-05 E. Colavita , S. Hacyan

The quaternion spaces can be used to describe the property of electromagnetic field and gravitational field. In the quaternion space, some coordinate transformations can be deduced from the feature of quaternions, including Lorentz…

General Physics · Physics 2010-08-12 Zihua Weng

Constructing the Semi - Unitary Transformation (SUT) to obtain the supersymmetric partner Hamiltonians for a one dimensional harmonic oscillator, it has been shown that under this transformation the supersymmetric partner loses its ground…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-03-24 P. S. Bisht , O. P. S. Negi