The expansion of a holomorphic function in a series of Lamé products (Q1318232)

It is well-known that each function of one complex variable, which is holomorphic in a neighbourhood of the interval \([-1,1]\), can be expanded into a series of Legendre polynomials. This series is locally uniformly convergent on suitable subsets of the domain of holomorphy of the considered function. In the paper being reviewed, the author extended this result in the following way: He proved that each function \(f(s,t)\) of two complex variables, which is symmetric (with respect to the variables) and holomorphic in a neighbourhood of a rectangle, has an expansion in a series of products of Lamé polynomials \(E(s) \cdot E(t)\). In accordance with the one-dimensional case the series is locally uniformly convergent on suitable subsets of the domain of holomorphy of the considered function \(f(s,t)\). The proof is based on a general expansion theorem for holomorphic functions defined on a two-dimensional complex manifold, and the fact that products of Lamé polynomials are the representations of spherical surface harmonics in sphero-conal coordinates.