A LAGUERRE POLYNOMIAL ORTHOGONALITY AND THE HYDROGEN ATOM

DOI10.1142/S0219530503000132zbMATH Open1047.33003arXivmath-ph/0011021WikidataQ57444237 ScholiaQ57444237MaRDI QIDQ4474587FDOQ4474587

Authors: Charles F. Dunkl 

Publication date: 12 July 2004

Published in: Analysis and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The radial part of the wave function of an electron in a Coulomb potential is the product of a Laguerre polynomial and an exponential with the variable scaled by a factor depending on the degree. This note presents an elementary proof of the orthogonality of wave functions with differing energy levels. It is also shown that this is the only other natural orthogonality for Laguerre polynomials. By expanding in terms of the usual Laguerre polynomial basis an analogous strange orthogonality is obtained for Meixner polynomials.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0011021

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zbMATH Keywords

Meixner polynomialsLaguerre functionsCoulomb potential

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Orthogonal polynomials and functions of hypergeometric type (Jacobi, Laguerre, Hermite, Askey scheme, etc.) (33C45) PDEs in connection with quantum mechanics (35Q40) Atomic physics (81V45) Confluent hypergeometric functions, Whittaker functions, ({}_1F_1) (33C15)

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• Uniform asymptotic expansions for Meixner polynomials
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• Upper limit of the discrete hydrogen-like wave functions: Expansion in the inverse principal quantum number n−1

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