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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

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

Satellites mapping the spatial variations of the gravitational or magnetic fields of the Earth or other planets ideally fly on polar orbits, uniformly covering the entire globe. Thus, potential fields on the sphere are usually expressed in…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2013-06-17 Frederik J. Simons , F. A. Dahlen

Spherical harmonics are a favorable technique for 3D representation, employing a frequency-based approach through the spherical harmonic transform (SHT). Typically, SHT is performed using equiangular sampling grids. However, these grids are…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Zikuan Li , Anyi Huang , Wenru Jia , Qiaoyun Wu , Mingqiang Wei , Jun Wang

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

We develop an efficient numerical method for calculating the image stress field induced by spherical voids in materials. The method is applied to dislocation-void interactions in dislocation dynamics simulations. We obtain a complete set of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-02-14 Yifan Wang , Xiaohan Zhang , Wei Cai

A radial basis function (RBF) method based on matrix-valued kernels is presented and analyzed for computing two types of vector decompositions on bounded domains: one where the normal component of the divergence-free part of the field is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-06 Edward J. Fuselier , Grady B. Wright

Spherical harmonics provide a smooth, orthogonal, and symmetry-adapted basis to expand functions on a sphere, and they are used routinely in physical and theoretical chemistry as well as in different fields of science and technology, from…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-05-02 Filippo Bigi , Guillaume Fraux , Nicholas J. Browning , Michele Ceriotti

In the context of intra-cluster medium turbulence, it is essential to be able to split the turbulent velocity field in a compressive and a solenoidal component. We describe and implement a new method for this aim, i.e., performing a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-02 David Vallés-Pérez , Susana Planelles , Vicent Quilis

Electrodynamic spherical harmonic is a second rank tensor in three-dimensional space. It allows to separate the radial and angle variables in vector solutions of Maxwell's equations. Using the orthonormalization for electrodynamic spherical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-03-31 Andrey Novitsky

Spaces of harmonic functions in upper half-space with controlled growth near the boundary are described in terms of multiresolution approximations. The results are applied to prove the law of the iterated logarithm for the oscillation of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-03 Kjersti Solberg Eikrem , Eugenia Malinnikova , Pavel A. Mozolyako

In this paper, we consider finite difference approximations of the second order wave equation. We use finite difference operators satisfying the summation-by-parts property to discretize the equation in space. Boundary conditions and grid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-04 Siyang Wang , Gunilla Kreiss

This paper examines filtering on a sphere, by first examining the roles of spherical harmonic magnitude and phase. We show that phase is more important than magnitude in determining the structure of a spherical function. We examine the…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Ramakrishna Kakarala , Philip Ogunbona

A spherical conical metric $g$ on a surface $\Sigma$ is a metric of constant curvature $1$ with finitely many isolated conical singularities. The uniformization problem for such metrics remains largely open when at least one of the cone…

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A new numerical domain decomposition method is proposed for solving elliptic equations on compact Riemannian manifolds. The advantage of this method is to avoid global triangulations or grids on manifolds. Our method is numerically tested…

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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

We apply the circle method to obtain an asymptotic formula for the number of integral points on a certain sliced cubic hypersurface related to the Segre cubic. Unusually, the major and minor arc integrals in this application are both…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-13 Joerg Bruedern , Trevor D. Wooley

In this article, we present a $T$-matrix method for numerical computation of second-harmonic generation from clusters of arbitrarily distributed spherical particles made of centrosymmetric optical materials. The electromagnetic fields at…

Optics · Physics 2021-04-14 Ivan Sekulic , Jian Wei You , Nicolae C. Panoiu

We develop an approach to finding upper bounds for the number of arithmetic operations necessary for doing harmonic analysis on permutation modules of finite groups. The approach takes advantage of the intrinsic orbital structure of…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-10 Michael Hansen , Masanori Koyama , Matthew B. A. McDermott , Michael E. Orrison , Sarah Wolff

Most real-world 3D measurements from depth sensors are incomplete, and to address this issue the point cloud completion task aims to predict the complete shapes of objects from partial observations. Previous works often adapt an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Junming Zhang , Haomeng Zhang , Ram Vasudevan , Matthew Johnson-Roberson