Spherical Harmonics Axisymmetry

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I'm expanding a function in spherical harmonics. I want to conserve axisymmetry of the function. what harmonics would respect that? Should I only include m=0 terms?
 

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As long as you put your spherical coordinates such that the z-axis is the symmetry axis, yes.
 

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