Confluent Heun functions and separation of variables in spheroidal coordinates

DOI10.1063/1.3613651zbMath1317.35019MaRDI QIDQ5266105

Rufus Boyack, John Lekner

Publication date: 29 July 2015

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3613651

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35B40: Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs

35J10: Schrödinger operator, Schrödinger equation

35J05: Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation

33C15: Confluent hypergeometric functions, Whittaker functions, ({}_1F_1)

33E10: Lamé, Mathieu, and spheroidal wave functions

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Uses Software

• Maple

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