Formula:5600

Digital Library of Mathematical Functions ID 14.18.E2

${\displaystyle{\displaystyle\mathsf{P}_{n}\left(\cos\theta_{1}\cos\theta_{2}+\sin\theta_{1}\sin\theta_{2}\cos\phi\right)=\sum_{m=-n}^{n}(-1)^{m}\mathsf{P}^{-m}_{n}\left(\cos\theta_{1}\right)\mathsf{P}^{m}_{n}\left(\cos\theta_{2}\right)\cos\left(m\phi\right).}}$

Symbols List

• ${\displaystyle{\displaystyle\mathsf{P}^{\NVar{\mu}}_{\NVar{\nu}}\left(\NVar{x}\right)}}$: Ferrers function of the first kind
• ${\displaystyle{\displaystyle\cos\NVar{z}}}$: cosine function
• ${\displaystyle{\displaystyle\mathsf{P}_{\NVar{\nu}}\left(\NVar{x}\right)=\mathsf{P}^{0}_{\nu}\left(x\right)}}$:
• Failed to parse (Conversion error. Server ("https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_") reported: "TeX input is invalid."): {\displaystyle \sin@@{\NVar{z}}} : sine function
• ${\displaystyle{\displaystyle m}}$: nonnegative integer
• ${\displaystyle{\displaystyle n}}$: nonnegative integer
• ${\displaystyle{\displaystyle\theta_{1}}}$: real
• ${\displaystyle{\displaystyle\phi}}$: real