Irregular Coulomb wave functions expressed in terms of regular Coulomb functions (Q2565319)

The paper considers the radial wave equation which described the relative motion of two positively charged particles interacting through Coulomb fields. The equation is a special confluent hypergeometric equation with a parameter situation where one of the fundamental solutions has a logarithmic singularity. This ``irregular Coulomb function'' is represented in terms of the regular solutions. The basis is a (new, even more interesting) lemma on the expansion of the singular Whittaker function \(W\) as a series of regular Whittaker functions \(M\). -- \textit{A. S. Meligy} [Proc. Camb. Philos. Soc. 57, 782-789 (1961; Zbl 0107.05803)] studied a special case.