[SciPy-Dev] suggestion: vector spherical harmonics

[Joshua Wilson]

> I can provide simple code which relies on scipy's (scalar) spherical harmonics implementation

The problem we're going to run into is that SciPy's scalar spherical
harmonics need work. (There is at least
https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/7778.) Before adding anything
that uses them I'd want to see their issues addressed.

- Josh

On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 7:14 AM Eric Larson <larson.eric.d at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Sounds like a useful, in-scope addition to me.
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> Eric
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> On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 3:41 AM Thomas Hilger <thomas.hilger at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> The generalization of spherical harmonics to vector-fields are the vector spherical harmonics [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_spherical_harmonics ] .
>> I can provide simple code which relies on scipy's (scalar) spherical harmonics implementation and follows the same conventions to give vector spherical harmonics.
>>
>> Could this be a nice-thing-to-have for scipy? A couple of scientific communities (astronomy, geodesy) use them a lot.
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