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Spherical Harmonics

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Part of the Lecture Notes in Mathematics book series (LNM,volume 2044)

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This chapter presents a theory of spherical harmonics from the viewpoint of invariant linear function spaces on the sphere. It is shown that the system of spherical harmonics is the only system of invariant function spaces that is both complete and closed, and cannot be reduced further.

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  • Spherical Harmonics
  • Fourier-Laplace Series
  • Homogeneous Harmonic
  • Integral Representation Formula
  • Poisson Identity

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Atkinson, K., Han, W. (2012). Spherical Harmonics. In: Spherical Harmonics and Approximations on the Unit Sphere: An Introduction. Lecture Notes in Mathematics(), vol 2044. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25983-8_2

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