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In our recent works [R. Szmytkowski, J. Phys. A 39 (2006) 15147; corrigendum: 40 (2007) 7819; addendum: 40 (2007) 14887], we have investigated the derivative of the Legendre function of the first kind, $P_{\nu}(z)$, with respect to its…
A relationship between partial derivatives of the associated Legendre function of the first kind with respect to its degree, $[\partial P_{\nu}^{m}(z)/\partial\nu]_{\nu=n}$, and to its order, $[\partial P_{n}^{\mu}(z)/\partial\mu]_{\mu=m}$,…
The derivative of the associated Legendre function of the first kind of integer degree with respect to its order, $\partial P_{n}^{\mu}(z)/\partial\mu$, is studied. After deriving and investigating general formulas for $\mu$ arbitrary…
We provide closed-form expressions for the degree-derivatives $[\partial^{2}P_{\nu}(z)/\partial\nu^{2}]_{\nu=n}$ and $[\partial Q_{\nu}(z)/\partial\nu]_{\nu=n}$, with $z\in\mathbb{C}$ and $n\in\mathbb{N}_{0}$, where $P_{\nu}(z)$ and…
Expressions for the derivatives of the Legendre polynomials of the first kind with respect to the order of these polynomials are given. An explicit form for the fourth derivative is presented.
In this paper, new relations between the derivatives of the Legendre polynomials are obtained, and by these relations, new upper bounds for the Legendre coefficients of differentiable functions are presented. These upper bounds are sharp…
We derive explicit expressions for the parameter derivatives $[\partial^{2}P_{\nu}(z)/\partial\nu^{2}]_{\nu=0}$ and $[\partial^{3}P_{\nu}(z)/\partial\nu^{3}]_{\nu=0}$, where $P_{\nu}(z)$ is the Legendre function of the first kind. It is…
In this paper, we study non-linear differential equations associated with Legendre polynomials and their applications. From our study of non- linear differential equations, we derive some new and explicit identities for Legendre…
Expressions for the derivatives with respect to order of modified Bessel functions evaluated at integer orders and certain integral representations of associated Legendre functions with modulus argument greater than unity are used to…
Integrals involving derivatives of Legendre polynomials frequently arise in applications ranging from multipole expansions for processes involving electromagnetic probes to spectral methods in numerical physics. Despite their practical…
We explore integrals of products of Legendre polynomials with a logarithmic weight function. More precisely, for Legendre polynomials $P_m$ and $P_n$ of orders $m$ and $n$, respectively, we provide simple derivations of the integrals $$\int…
For integral representations of associated Legendre functions in terms of modified Bessel functions, we establish justification for differentiation under the integral sign with respect to parameters. With this justification, derivatives for…
In this paper, we provide a new and sharper bound for the Legendre coefficients of differentiable functions and then derive a new error bound of the truncated Legendre series in the uniform norm. The key idea of proof relies on integration…
We prove an explicit formula for the $p$-adic valuation of the Legendre polynomials $P_n(x)$ evaluated at a prime $p$, and generalize an old conjecture of the third author. We also solve a problem proposed by Cigler in 2017.
In this paper we present a new perspective on error analysis of Legendre approximations for differentiable functions. We start by introducing a sequence of Legendre-Gauss-Lobatto polynomials and prove their theoretical properties, such as…
Leibniz's rule for the $n$-th derivative of a product is a very well known and extremely useful formula. In this article, we introduce an analogous explicit formula for the $n$-th derivative of a quotient of two functions. Later, we use…
Let $ P(z) $ be a polynomial of degree $ n $ and for any real or complex number $\alpha,$ let $D_\alpha P(z)=nP(z)+(\alpha-z)P^{\prime}(z)$ denote the polar derivative with respect to $\alpha.$ In this paper, we obtain generalizations of…
We derive some identities and relations and extremal problems and minimization and Fourier development involving of integral Legendre polynomials.
The use of operational methods of different nature is shown to be a fairly powerful tool to study different problems regarding the theory of Legendre and Legendre-like polynomials. We show how the use of the well known integral…
An extensive table of pairs of functions linked by the Legendre transformation is presented. Many special functions and formulas that are used in the sciences are included in the pairs. Formulations are provided for finding the Legendre…