Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
In a recent paper [2], the author, with F. M. Cholewinski, derived criteria for the series expansions of solutions u(x, t) of the Laguerre differential heat equation xuxx + (α + 1 - x)ux = ut in terms of the Laguerre heat polynomials and of their temperature transforms. Our present goal is the characterization of those solutions which are representable in a Maclaurin double series in xe-t and in 1 — e-t Some of the results are analogous to those derived by D. V. Widder in [4] for the classical heat equation and by the author in [1] for the generalized heat equation.