Solutions to a generalized spheroidal wave equation: Teukolsky’s equations in general relativity, and the two-center problem in molecular quantum mechanics

DOI10.1063/1.527130zbMath0612.34041MaRDI QIDQ3752722

Edward W. Leaver

Publication date: 1986

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.527130

zbMATH Keywords

Coulomb wave functions; quantum scattering theory of nonrelativistic electrons; Teukolsky's equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

34C99: Qualitative theory for ordinary differential equations

81V99: Applications of quantum theory to specific physical systems

33C10: Bessel and Airy functions, cylinder functions, ({}_0F_1)

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