15.25 LEGENDRE'S EQUATION AND LEGENDRE'S POLYNOMIAL

The differential equation

 

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is called Legendre's equation of order n, where n is a real number. The equation can be written is the form

 

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Since image and image are analytic at 0, the point x = 0 is a regular point of the Legendre's equation. So let

 

 

be the power series solution of the given Legendre's ...

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