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General spherical harmonic bra-ket overlap integrals of trigonometric functions

Mathematical Physics 2023-02-06 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory math.MP Atomic Physics Quantum Physics

Abstract

Closed formulas in terms of double sums of Clebsch-Gordan coefficients are computed for the evaluation of bra-ket spherical harmonic overlap integrals of a wide class of trigonometric functions. These analytical expressions can find useful application in problems involving non-separable wave equations, e.g. general-relativistic perturbation theory, electromagnetism, quantum theory, etc, wherein the overlap integrals arise from the coupling among different angular modes.

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@article{arxiv.2205.02337,
  title  = {General spherical harmonic bra-ket overlap integrals of trigonometric functions},
  author = {Giuseppe Lingetti and Paolo Pani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.02337},
  year   = {2023}
}

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