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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-γ\gamma spin-weighted spheroidal harmonics where γ\gamma 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 γ\gamma. Constructing these operators required calculating the \ell-, ss- and mm-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}
}