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Topic: Product formula for Hermite polynomials
Replies: 5   Last Post: Jan 24, 2013 3:50 PM

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 ksoileau Posts: 85 From: Houston, TX Registered: 3/9/08
Re: Product formula for Hermite polynomials
Posted: Jan 20, 2013 3:01 PM

On Saturday, January 19, 2013 3:38:03 PM UTC-6, ksoileau wrote:
> I'm looking for a formula which expresses the product of two Hermite polynomials as a linear combination of Hermite polynomials, i.e. $a_{m,n,i}$ verifying
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> $$> > H_m(x)H_n(x)=\sum \limits_{i=0}^{m+n} a_{m,n,i} H_i(x). > >$$
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> for all nonegative $m,n$.
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> If such a formula is known, I'd be most appreciative of a citation or link describing it.
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> Thanks for any help!
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> Kerry M. Soileau

I already did that and found no answer to my question at any of these links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonal_polynomials
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/HermitePolynomial.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermite_polynomials

If the answer was so easy to find using Google, why did you take the trouble to write a reply without providing a link? You have a rather eccentric concept of "helpfulness."

Thanks anyway!

Date Subject Author
1/19/13 ksoileau
1/20/13 Don Redmond
1/20/13 ksoileau
1/20/13 Don Redmond
1/20/13 Roland Franzius
1/24/13 AP