Sectorial Harmonic

Sectorial Harmonic

A Spherical Harmonic of the form

$\begin{displaymath} \sin(m\theta)P_m^m(\cos\phi) \end{displaymath}$

or

$\begin{displaymath} \cos(m\theta)P_m^m(\cos\phi). \end{displaymath}$

See also Spherical Harmonic

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1999-05-26