Differential operators and the Legendre type polynomials

zbMath0727.34021MaRDI QIDQ803359

W. Norrie Everitt, Lance L. Littlejohn

Publication date: 1988

Published in: Differential and Integral Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

polynomial solutionsfourth-order ordinary differential equationformally symmetric operatorLegendre type polynomialsorthogonality of the derivatives

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Orthogonal polynomials and functions of hypergeometric type (Jacobi, Laguerre, Hermite, Askey scheme, etc.) (33C45) Weyl theory and its generalizations for ordinary differential equations (34B20) Special ordinary differential equations (Mathieu, Hill, Bessel, etc.) (34B30)

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