A general formulation for the disorientation angle distribution function is derived. The derivation employs the hyperspherical harmonic expansion for orientation distributions, and an explicit solution is presented for materials with cubic crystal symmetry and arbitrary textures. The result provides a significant generalization to the well-known Mackenzie distribution function (Mackenzie JK. Bi...

We apply Hardy-Littlewood’s Tauberian theorem to obtain an estimate on the harmonic expansion of a complex measure on the unit sphere, using a monotonicity property for positive harmonic functions. Let Bn = {x ∈ Rn : |x| < 1}, n ≥ 2 be the unit ball in Rn and Sn−1 = ∂Bn be the unit sphere. From a monotonicity property, we obtain a precise asymptotic for the spherical harmonic expansion of a com...