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Radial Functions 📂Functions

Radial Functions

Definition1

If the function defined above by $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ satisfies the following, it is called radial.

$$ f(R\mathbf{x}) = f(\mathbf{x}) \text{ for all rotations } R $$

Explanation

Directly translated as a radial function, but hardly anyone calls it that. The function value depends only on the distance $\left| x \right|$ from the origin.


  1. Gerald B. Folland, Fourier Analysis and Its Applications (1992), p246-247 ↩︎