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SphericalHarmonicY






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Traditional Notation









Hypergeometric Functions > SphericalHarmonicY[lambda,mu,theta,phi] > Identities > Recurrence identities > Consecutive neighbors





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Input Form





SphericalHarmonicY[\[Lambda], \[Mu], \[CurlyTheta], \[CurlyPhi]] == (((2 \[Lambda] - 1) Sqrt[2 \[Lambda] + 1] Sqrt[Gamma[\[Lambda] - \[Mu] + 1]] Sqrt[Gamma[\[Lambda] + \[Mu]]])/((\[Lambda] - \[Mu]) Sqrt[2 \[Lambda] - 1] Sqrt[Gamma[\[Lambda] + \[Mu] + 1]] Sqrt[Gamma[\[Lambda] - \[Mu]]])) Cos[\[CurlyTheta]] SphericalHarmonicY[\[Lambda] - 1, \[Mu], \[CurlyTheta], \[CurlyPhi]] - (((\[Lambda] + \[Mu] - 1) Sqrt[2 \[Lambda] + 1] Sqrt[Gamma[\[Lambda] - \[Mu] + 1]] Sqrt[Gamma[\[Lambda] + \[Mu] - 1]])/ ((\[Lambda] - \[Mu]) Sqrt[2 \[Lambda] - 3] Sqrt[Gamma[\[Lambda] + \[Mu] + 1]] Sqrt[Gamma[\[Lambda] - \[Mu] - 1]])) SphericalHarmonicY[\[Lambda] - 2, \[Mu], \[CurlyTheta], \[CurlyPhi]]










Standard Form





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Rule Form





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