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On the L4 norm of spherical harmonics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2008
Abstract
It is shown that, among all the L2 normalized spherical harmonics of a given degree, the L4 norm is locally maximized by the ‘highest weight’ function .
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- Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 89 , Issue 2 , March 1981 , pp. 343 - 358
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