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Generating functions for spherical harmonics and spherical monogenics

Paula Cerejeiras, Uwe Käehler, Roman Lávička

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In this paper, we study generating functions for the standard orthogonal bases of spherical harmonics and spherical monogenics in R^m. Here spherical monogenics are polynomial solutions of the Dirac equation in R^m. In particular, we obtain the recurrence formula which expresses the generating function in dimension m in terms of that in dimension m-1. Hence we can find closed formulae of generating functions in R^m by induction on the dimension m.

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In this paper, we study generating functions for the standard orthogonal bases of spherical harmonics and spherical monogenics in R^m. Here spherical monogenics are polynomial solutions of the Dirac equation in R^m. In particular, we obtain the recurrence formula which expresses the generating function in dimension m in terms of that in dimension m-1. Hence we can find closed formulae of generating functions in R^m by induction on the dimension m.

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In this paper, we study generating functions for the standard orthogonal bases of spherical harmonics and spherical monogenics in R^m. Here spherical monogenics are polynomial solutions of the Dirac equation in R^m. In particular, we obtain the recurrence formula which expresses the generating function in dimension m in terms of that in dimension m-1. Hence we can find closed formulae of generating functions in R^m by induction on the dimension m.

Key concepts: Spherical harmonics, Spin-weighted spherical harmonics, Zonal spherical harmonics, Dimension (graph theory), Solid harmonics, Vector spherical harmonics, Harmonics, Associated Legendre polynomials

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