Raising and Lowering operators of spin-weighted spheroidal harmonics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2016-06-06 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory
Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
In this paper we generalize the spin-raising and lowering operators of spin-weighted spherical harmonics to linear-in- spin-weighted spheroidal harmonics where is an additional parameter present in the second order ordinary differential equation governing these harmonics. One can then generalize these operators to higher powers in . Constructing these operators required calculating the -, - and -raising and lowering operators (and various combinations of them) of spin-weighted spherical harmonics which have been calculated and shown explicitly in this paper.
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@article{arxiv.1503.02618,
title = {Raising and Lowering operators of spin-weighted spheroidal harmonics},
author = {Abhay G. Shah and Bernard F. Whiting},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.02618},
year = {2016}
}