Howto simplify Integral with jacobi polynomials

Raymond Toy (RT/EUS) wrote:

> andre maute wrote:
>> 
>> For the documentation, especially the orthopoly section,
>> Abramowitz & Stegun (A&S) is freely available
>> but Gradshteyn & Ryzhik and Merzbacher are not.
>> 
>> Couldn't the documentation be a litlle bit more specific
>> at least for the nonfree citations?
>> Perhaps implementing the tables of A&S would help here also.
> 
> I don't follow you.  What exactly are you suggesting here?  I, for one,
> would like it if the documentation gave some definition for each of the
> orthogonal polynomials.  The reference is nice, but, sometimes, I have
> neither net access nor book access.
> 
> Ray

For the spherical harmonics, there is a very reasonable account in 
Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_harmonics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Legendre_functions



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Michel Talon