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On the Equation of the Parabolic Cylinder Functions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

Arch Milne
Arch Milne
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Research Student, Edinburgh University, Mathematical Laboratory.
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Hermite, in 1864 (Comptes Rendus, vol. 58) introduced into analysis the polynomials defined by the relation

where n is a positive integer. He showed that they satisfied the differential equation

that they were orthogonal functions, and that an arbitrary function f(x) could be expanded in the form

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society , Volume 32 , February 1913 , pp. 2 - 14
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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1913