Dirac Delta Functions in the Laplace-Type Expansion of rnYlm(θ, φ)
- 15 September 1969
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 51 (6), 2359-2362
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1672352
Abstract
The theory of generalized functions and Fourier transforms is used to derive the Laplace‐type expansion for r 12 n Y l m (θ 12 , φ 12 ) . This approach leads naturally to a general formula for the Dirac delta‐function terms which occur when n≤−3 and n − l is odd.Keywords
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