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    Spherical harmonics are special functions defined on the surface of a sphere. They form a complete set of orthogonal functions that can be used as a basis to write any function defined on a sphere as a sum of these harmonics, similar to how periodic functions on a circle can be expressed as a sum of sines and cosines using Fourier series. Spherical harmonics originate from solving Laplace's equation in spherical domains and take their simplest form in Cartesian coordinates. They are important in applications involving multipole fields and modeling 3D shapes.

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    Spherical harmonics

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    "Ylm" redirects here. For other uses, see YLM (disambiguation).

    Visual representations of the first few real spherical harmonics. Blue portions represent regions where the
    function is positive, and yellow portions represent where it is negative. The distance of the surface from the
    origin indicates the absolute value of  in angular direction .

    In mathematics and physical science, spherical harmonics are special


    functions defined on the surface of a sphere. They are often employed in solving partial
    differential equations in many scientific fields.
    Since the spherical harmonics form a complete set of orthogonal functions and thus
    an orthonormal basis, each function defined on the surface of a sphere can be written
    as a sum of these spherical harmonics. This is similar to periodic functions defined on a
    circle that can be expressed as a sum of circular functions (sines and cosines)
    via Fourier series. Like the sines and cosines in Fourier series, the spherical harmonics
    may be organized by (spatial) angular frequency, as seen in the rows of functions in the
    illustration on the right. Further, spherical harmonics are basis functions for irreducible
    representations of SO(3), the group of rotations in three dimensions, and thus play a
    central role in the group theoretic discussion of SO(3).
    Spherical harmonics originates from solving Laplace's equation in the spherical
    domains. Functions that solve Laplace's equation are called harmonics. Despite their
    name, spherical harmonics take their simplest form in Cartesian coordinates, where
    they can be defined as homogeneous polynomials of degree  in  that obey Laplace's
    equation. The connection with spherical coordinates arises immediately if one uses the
    homogeneity to extract a factor of  from the above-mentioned polynomial of degree ; the
    remaining factor can be regarded as a function of the spherical angular
    coordinates  and  only, or equivalently of the orientational unit vector  specified by these
    angles. In this setting, they may be viewed as the angular portion of a set of solutions to
    Laplace's equation in three dimensions, and this viewpoint is often taken as an
    alternative definition.
    A specific set of spherical harmonics, denoted  or , are known as Laplace's spherical
    harmonics, as they were first introduced by Pierre Simon de Laplace in 1782.[1] These
    functions form an orthogonal system, and are thus basic to the expansion of a general
    function on the sphere as alluded to above.
    Spherical harmonics are important in many theoretical and practical applications,
    including the representation of multipole electrostatic and electromagnetic
    fields, electron configurations, gravitational fields, geoids, the magnetic fields of
    planetary bodies and stars, and the cosmic microwave background radiation. In 3D
    computer graphics, spherical harmonics play a role in a wide variety of topics including
    indirect lighting (ambient occlusion, global illumination, precomputed radiance transfer,
    etc.) and modelling of 3D shapes.

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