Lamé differential equations and electrostatics

Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 128, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 3621-3628

  Dimitrov, Dimitar K ^a   Van Assche, Walter ^b  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Electrostatic equilibrium; Gegenbauer polynomials; Lam differential equation; Laurent polynomials

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044522838     PISSN: 00029939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/s0002-9939-00-05638-0     Document Type: Article

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