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Relations among spheroidal and spherical harmonics

Complex Variables 2024-10-17 v1

Abstract

A contragenic function in a domain ΩR3\Omega\subseteq\mathbf{R}^3 is a reduced-quaternion-valued (i.e. the last coordinate function is zero) harmonic function, which is orthogonal in L2(Ω)L^2(\Omega) to all monogenic functions and their conjugates. The notion of contragenicity depends on the domain and thus is not a local property, in contrast to harmonicity and monogenicity. For spheroidal domains of arbitrary eccentricity, we relate standard orthogonal bases of harmonic and contragenic functions for one domain to another via computational formulas. This permits us to show that there exist nontrivial contragenic functions common to the spheroids of all eccentricities.

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@article{arxiv.1905.01568,
  title  = {Relations among spheroidal and spherical harmonics},
  author = {Raybel García-Ancona and João Morais and R. Michael Porter},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.01568},
  year   = {2024}
}
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