We describe a method for the numerical evaluation of normalized versions of the associated Legendre functions P−μ ν and Q −μ ν of degrees 0 ≤ ν ≤ 1, 000, 000 and orders −ν ≤ μ ≤ ν on the interval (−1, 1). Our algorithm, which runs in time independent of ν and μ, is based on the fact that while the associated Legendre functions themselves are extremely expensive to represent via polynomial expan...

In this article we decide to define a modified homotopy perturbation for solving non-linear integral equations. Almost, all of the papers that was presented to solve non-linear problems by the homotopy method, they used from two non-linear and linear operators. But we convert a non-linear problem to two suitable non-linear operators also we use from appropriate bases functions such as Legendre ...

In 1951, F. Brafman derived several “unusual” generating functions of classical orthogonal polynomials, in particular, of Legendre polynomials Pn(x). His result was a consequence of Bailey’s identity for a special case of Appell’s hypergeometric function of the fourth type. In this paper, we present a generalization of Bailey’s identity and its implication to generating functions of Legendre po...

in this manuscript a new method is introduced for solving fractional differential equations. the fractional derivative is described in the caputo sense. the main idea is to use fractional-order legendre wavelets and operational matrix of fractional-order integration. first the fractional-order legendre wavelets (flws) are presented. then a family of piecewise functions is proposed, based on whi...

Abstract We describe an expansion of Legendre polynomials, analogous to the Taylor expansion, to approximate arbitrary functions. We show that the polynomial coefficients in Legendre expansion, thus, the whole series, converge to zero much more rapidly compared to the Taylor expansion of the same order. Furthermore, using numerical analysis with sixth-order polynomial expansion, we demonstrate ...

A coupled method of Laplace transform and Legendre wavelets is presented to obtain exact solutions of Lane-Emden-type equations. By employing properties of Laplace transform, a new operator is first introduced and then its Legendre wavelets operational matrix is derived to convert the Lane-Emden equations into a system of algebraic equations. Block pulse functions are used to calculate the Lege...

The Jacobi-Stirling numbers and the Legendre-Stirling numbers of the first and second kind were first introduced by Everitt et al. (2002) and (2007) in the spectral theory. In this paper we note that Jacobi-Stirling numbers and Legendre-Stirling numbers are specializations of elementary and complete symmetric functions. We then study combinatorial interpretations of this specialization and obta...