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Mat. Tr., 2021 Volume 24, Number 2, Pages 24–36 (Mi mt648)

Completely reducible factors of harmonic polynomials of three variables

V. M. Gichev

Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk

Abstract: We describe the divisors of complex valued homogeneous harmonic polynomials on $\mathbb R^{3}$ which are products of linear forms and characterize the homogeneous polynomials $p$ that admit a couple of linear forms $\ell_{1}$ and $\ell_{2}$ such that $\ell_{1}^{m}p$ and $\ell_{2}^{m}p$ are harmonic for some $m\in\mathbb N$. The latter gives an example of a pair of spherical harmonics whose set of common zeros has length that is compatible with the upper bound of this quantity for a single harmonic.

Key words: spherical harmonics, divisibility of harmonic polynomials.

UDC: 517.57

Received: 04.04.2020
Revised: 29.06.2020
Accepted: 07.07.2020

DOI: 10.33048/mattrudy.2021.24.202



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