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Re: Integrating SphericalHarmonicY

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  • Subject: [mg73242] Re: Integrating SphericalHarmonicY
  • From: Paul Abbott <paul at physics.uwa.edu.au>
  • Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 03:45:00 -0500 (EST)
  • Organization: The University of Western Australia
  • References: <eq9c4v$n37$1@smc.vnet.net>

In article <eq9c4v$n37$1 at smc.vnet.net>, wgempel at yahoo.com wrote:

> I would like
> 
> Integrate[
>     Conjugate[SphericalHarmonicY[l,m,theta,phi]]
>     SphericalHarmonicY[l,m,theta,phi] Sin[theta],
>     {theta, 0, Pi}, {phi, 0, 2 Pi}]

Further to my previous posting, I should have mentioned that the 
particular 3-j coefficient reduces automatically:

  Simplify[Sqrt[2 l + 1] (-1)^(l - m)*
     ThreeJSymbol[{l, m}, {l, -m}, {0, 0}], Element[{l, m},Integers]]

  1

Also, see 

  http://mathworld.wolfram.com/SphericalHarmonic.html

and the Notebook at this URL.

Cheers,
Paul

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