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Laguerre functions with truncated domain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

Bayard Rankin
Affiliation:
Case Institute of Technology. Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A., and St. Salvator's College, St. Andrews.
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We wish to prove a theorem concerning the average values for the functions Ln(2u)e−u, 0 ≤xu < ∞, n=0,1,2, …, where Ln is the n-th Laguerre polynomial. Such functions will be called Laguerre functions with domain truncated at x.

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Research Article
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Copyright © University College London 1966

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