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SphericalHarmonicY






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Traditional Notation









Hypergeometric Functions > SphericalHarmonicY[lambda,mu,theta,phi] > Identities > Functional identities > Additional relations between contiguous functions





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Input Form





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










Standard Form





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MathML Form







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Rule Form





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2001-10-29