SphericalHarmonics strange behavior
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- Subject: [mg100961] SphericalHarmonics strange behavior
- From: "lbloy at seas.upenn.edu" <lbloy at seas.upenn.edu>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:47:43 -0400 (EDT)
Hi all, working with some spherical harmonics and have some questions about the code as implemented in mathematica. based on http://mathworld.wolfram.com/SphericalHarmonic.html I put together the following code to see what is implemented th1 = 1.324; ph1 = 5.231; diffY[l_, m_, t_, p_] := Module[{val1, val2}, val1 = SphericalHarmonicY[l, m, t, p]; val2 = Sqrt[((2*l + 1)*(l - m)!)/((4*Pi)*(l + m)!)]* LegendreP[l, m, Cos[t]]*E^(I*m*p); Print[{val1, val2, Abs[val1 - val2]}]; Return[Abs[val1 - val2]]; ]; diffY[1, 1, th1, ph1] diffY[1, -1, th1, ph1] Clearly there is some sign error somewhere I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions. thanks Luke