Super-Resolution on the Two-Dimensional Unit Sphere

Abstract: We study the problem of recovering an atomic measure on the unit 2-sphere $\mathbb{S}^2$ given finitely many moments with respect to spherical harmonics. The analysis relies on the formulation of this problem as an optimization problem on the space of bounded Borel measures on $\mathbb{S}^2$ as it was considered by Y. de Castro & F. Gamboa and E. Cand\'es & C. Fernandez-Granda. We construct a dual certificate using a kernel given in an explicit form and make a concrete analysis of the interpolation problem. Numerical examples are provided and analyzed.