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This paper presents some new results on the eigenvalues of the spheroidal wave equation. We study the angular and Coulomb spheroidal wave equation as a special case of a more general linear Hamiltonian system depending on three parameters.…
An algorithm for computing eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the angular spheroidal wave equation, based on a known but scarcely used method, is developed. By requiring the regularity of the wave function, represented by its series…
This paper presents a new approach for the computation of eigenvalues of the generalized spheroidal wave equations. The novelty of the present method is in the use of the analytical derivatives of the eigenvalues to minimize losses in…
The spheroidal wave functions are investigated in the case m=1. The integral equation is obtained for them. For the two kinds of eigenvalues in the differential and corresponding integral equations, the relation between them are given…
The spheroidal wave functions, which are the solutions to the Helmholtz equation in spheroidal coordinates, are notoriously difficult to compute. Because of this, practically no programming language comes equipped with the means to compute…
In addition to being the eigenfunctions of the restricted Fourier operator, the angular spheroidal wave functions of the first kind of order zero and nonnegative integer characteristic exponents are the solutions of a singular self-adjoint…
Coulomb wave functions are difficult to compute numerically for extremely low energies, even with direct numerical integration. Hence, it is more convenient to use asymptotic formulas in this region. It is the object of this paper to derive…
The perturbation method in supersymmetric quantum mechanics (SUSYQM) is used to study the spheroidal wave functions' eigenvalue problem. Expanding the super-potential in series of the parameter alpha, the first order term of ground…
This paper is concerned with the connection coefficients between the local fundamental solutions of a $2\times 2$ linear ordinary differential system with two neighboring regular singular points at $z=0$ and $z=1$. We derive an asymptotic…
Spin-weighted spheroidal harmonics are useful in a variety of physical situations, including light scattering, nuclear modeling, signal processing, electromagnetic wave propagation, black hole perturbation theory in four and higher…
We describe a method for the numerical evaluation of the angular prolate spheroidal wave functions of the first kind of order zero. It is based on the observation that underlies the WKB method, namely that many second order differential…
In this paper, we use the means of super-symmetric quantum mechanics to study of the Spin-weighted Spheroidal Wave in the case of s=3/2. We obtain some interesting results: the first-five terms of the super-potential, the general form of…
Uniform asymptotic approximations are obtained for the prolate spheroidal wave functions, in the high-frequency case. The results are obtained by an application of certain existing asymptotic solutions of differential equations, and involve…
Analytical solutions to the wave equation in spheroidal coordinates in the short wavelength limit are considered. The asymptotic solutions for the radial function are significantly simplified, allowing scalar spheroidal wave functions to be…
Eigenvalues of the Breit Equation {eqnarray*} [(\vec{\alpha}_{1} \vec{p} + \beta_{1}m)_{\alpha \alpha^{\prime}} \delta_{\beta \beta^{\prime}} + \delta_{\alpha \alpha^{\prime}} (-\vec{\alpha}_{2} \vec{p} + \beta_{2}M)_{\beta \beta^{\prime}}…
Integral equations for the spin-weighted spheroidal wave functions is given. For the prolate spheroidal wave function with m=0, there exists the integral equation whose kernel is(sin x)/x, and the sinc function kernel (sin x)/x is of great…
As demonstrated by Slepian et. al. in a sequence of classical papers, prolate spheroidal wave functions (PSWFs) provide a natural and efficient tool for computing with bandlimited functions defined on an interval. Recently, PSWFs have been…
A new algorithm to calculate Coulomb wave functions with all of its arguments complex is proposed. For that purpose, standard methods such as continued fractions and power/asymptotic series are combined with direct integrations of the…
We estimate the distribution of the eigenvalues of a family of time-frequency localization operators whose eigenfunctions are the well-known Prolate Spheroidal Wave Functions from mathematical physics. These operators are fundamental to the…
The perturbation method in supersymmetric quantum mechanics (SUSYQM) is used to study the spheroidal wave functions' recurrence relations, which are revealed by the shape-invariance property of the super-potential. The super-potential is…