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On the product of two Legendre polynomials

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

W. N. Bailey
W. N. Bailey
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Trinity College
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1. As long ago as 1878 Neumann gave a formula expressing the product of two Legendre polynomials as a sum of such polynomials. In the same year Adams gave an inductive proof, and obtained the result in the form

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , May 1933 , pp. 173 - 177
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1933

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References

* Neumann, F. E., Beiträge zur Theorie der Kugelfunctionen (Leipzig, 1878), Part II, p. 86Google Scholar. See also Hobson, E. W., The theory of spherical and ellipsoidal harmonics (Cambridge, 1931), p. 85.Google Scholar

† Adams, J. C., Proc. Royal Soc. 27 (1878), 63CrossRefGoogle Scholar; also Collected Scientific Papers, 1, 487.Google Scholar

‡ Hobson, loc. cit., p. 21 (17).

* Whipple, F. J. W., “On well-poised series”, Proc. London Math. Soc. (2), 24 (1925), 247–263Google Scholar, formula (7.7). See also Whippley, , “A fundamental relation between generalized hypergeometric series”, Journal London Math. Soc. 1 (1926), 138–145CrossRefGoogle Scholar. When n > q we use a limiting form of the transformation owing to the presence of a negative integer in the denominator parameters.

† Hobson, loc. cit., p. 114 (51) and (52).

* Cf. Dougall, J., “A theorem of Sonine in Bessel functions, with two extensions to Spherical Harmonics”, Proc. Edin. Math. Soc. 37 (1919), 33–47CrossRefGoogle Scholar, formula (3). Dougall's formula gives the value of a similar type of integral taken between the limits 0, 1.

† Hobson, loc. cit., p. 87.

* Hobson, loc. cit., p. 113 (49), and p. 114 (50).

* Hobson, loc. cit., p. 234 (67).

† Hobson, loc. cit., p. 234 (68).

‡ Hobson, loc. cit., p. 204 (31).