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Record Nr.

UNISA996466629503316

Autore

Atkinson Kendall

Titolo

Spherical Harmonics and Approximations on the Unit Sphere: An Introduction [[electronic resource] /] / by Kendall Atkinson, Weimin Han

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2012

ISBN

3-642-25983-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2012.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (IX, 244 p. 19 illus., 11 illus. in color.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Mathematics, , 0075-8434 ; ; 2044

Disciplina

518

Soggetti

Numerical analysis

Special functions

Approximation theory

Integral equations

Partial differential equations

Physics

Numerical Analysis

Special Functions

Approximations and Expansions

Integral Equations

Partial Differential Equations

Physics, general

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1 Preliminaries -- 2 Spherical Harmonics -- 3 Differentiation and Integration over the Sphere -- 4 Approximation Theory -- 5 Numerical Quadrature -- 6 Applications: Spectral Methods.

Sommario/riassunto

These notes provide an introduction to the theory of spherical harmonics in an arbitrary dimension as well as an overview of classical and recent results on some aspects of the approximation of functions by spherical polynomials and numerical integration over the unit sphere. The notes are intended for graduate students in the mathematical sciences and researchers who are interested in solving problems involving partial differential and integral equations on the



unit sphere, especially on the unit sphere in three-dimensional Euclidean space. Some related work for approximation on the unit disk in the plane is also briefly discussed, with results being generalizable to the unit ball in more dimensions.