This chapter reports on the current activities and recent progress in the field of special functions of mathematical geosciences. The chapter focuses on two major topics of interest, namely, trial systems of polynomial (i.e., spherical harmonics) and polynomially based (i.e., zonal kernel) type. A fundamental tool is an uncertainty principle, which gives appropriate bounds for both the qualification and quantification of space and frequency (momentum) localization of the special (kernel) function under consideration. The essential outcome is a better understanding of constructive approximation in terms of zonal kernel functions such as splines and wavelets.
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Freeden, W., & Schreiner, M. (2015). Special functions in mathematical geosciences: An attempt at a categorization. In Handbook of Geomathematics: Second Edition (pp. 2455–2482). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54551-1_31
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