Special functions and the Mellin transforms of Laguerre and Hermite functions

DOI10.1524/ANLY.2007.27.1.95zbMATH Open1132.33306arXivmath-ph/0612085OpenAlexW2037423770MaRDI QIDQ5440682FDOQ5440682

Authors: Mark W. Coffey 

Publication date: 5 February 2008

Published in: Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present explicit expressions for the Mellin transforms of Laguerre and Hermite functions in terms of a variety of special functions. We show that many of the properties of the resulting functions, including functional equations and reciprocity laws, are direct consequences of transformation formulae of hypergeometric functions. Interest in these results is reinforced by the fact that polynomial or other factors of the Mellin transforms have zeros only on the critical line Re s = 1/2. We additionally present a simple-zero Proposition for the Mellin transform of the wavefunction of the D-dimensional hydrogenic atom. These results are of interest to several areas including quantum mechanics and analytic number theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0612085

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical hypergeometric functions, ({}_2F_1) (33C05) Confluent hypergeometric functions, Whittaker functions, ({}_1F_1) (33C15) Orthogonal functions and polynomials, general theory of nontrigonometric harmonic analysis (42C05) Integral transforms of special functions (44A20) Special integral transforms (Legendre, Hilbert, etc.) (44A15)

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