Legendre functions, spherical rotations, and multiple elliptic integrals

Abstract: A closed-form formula is derived for the generalized Clebsch-Gordan integral

i n t_{- 1}^{1} [P_{u} (x)]^{2} P_{u} (- x) D x

, with

P_{u}

being the Legendre function of arbitrary complex degree

u i n m a t h b b C

. The finite Hilbert transform of

P_{u} (x) P_{u} (- x), - 1 < x < 1

is evaluated. An analytic proof is provided for a recently conjectured identity

i n t_{0}^{1} [m a t h b f K (s q r t 1 - k^{2})]^{3} D k = 6 i n t_{0}^{1} [m a t h b f K (k)]^{2} m a t h b f K (s q r t 1 - k^{2}) k D k = [G a m m a (1 / 4)]^{8} / (128 p i^{2})

involving complete elliptic integrals of the first kind

m a t h b f K (k)

and Euler's gamma function

G a m m a (z)

.

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