Spherical harmonics and approximations on the unit sphere. An introduction

DOI10.1007/978-3-642-25983-8zbMath1254.41015OpenAlexW167165788MaRDI QIDQ655165

Publication date: 2 January 2012

Published in: Lecture Notes in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25983-8

zbMATH Keywords

Galerkin method spherical harmonics Gegenbauer polynomials approximation theory quadrature unit sphere Funk-Hecke formula Legendre polinomials

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical methods for integral equations (65R20) Spherical harmonics (33C55) Approximation by other special function classes (41A30) Numerical integration (65D30)

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