A new \texttt{Fortran 90} program to compute regular and irregular associated Legendre functions

DOI10.1016/J.CPC.2010.08.038MaRDI QIDQ546783zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Barry I. Schneider, Xiaoxu Guan, Klaus Bartschat, Javier Segura, Amparo Gil

Publication date 30 June 2011

Published in Computer Physics Communications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2010.08.038

zbMATH Keywords

numerical examplescontinued fractionsMiller's algorithmassociated Legendre functionsrecursion relations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computation of special functions and constants, construction of tables (65D20) Orthogonal polynomials and functions of hypergeometric type (Jacobi, Laguerre, Hermite, Askey scheme, etc.) (33C45) Numerical approximation and evaluation of special functions (33F05)

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• Associated Legendre Functions

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