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| | Talk Abstracts: IMA 2002 Summer Program: Special Functions in the Digital Age, July 22 - August 2, 2002 |
 | | In order to analyze the wave functions of electrons in molecules with a crystal structure it is necessary to use the structure of spherical harmonics invariant under the symmetry point group of the crystal. |
 | | In particular, those special functions that arise as explicit solutions of the partial differential equations of mathematical physics, such as via separation of variables, can be characterized in terms of their transformation properties under the Lie symmetry groups and algebras of the differential equations. |
 | | Khare and Sukhatme have recently introduced scores of identities for sums of Jacobi functions with arguments, z, augmneted by addition of 2(i-1)K/p, K being the "quarter period" which is a complete elliptic integral of the first kind, and i =3D 1,2,3,...p. |
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