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A note on the zeros of the Bessel function

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

R. Wilson
Affiliation:
University College, Swansea
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This note contains an elementary proof of the well-known result that every solution of Besse's equation

with a real parameter n has an infinite number of real positive zeros.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1939

References

page 17 note 1 Bôcher, M., Leçonn snr les Méthodes de Sturm (Paris, 1917), Ch. III. and IV.Google Scholar

page 17 note 1 MacRobert, T. M., Spherical Harmonics (London, 1927), 274.Google Scholar