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On certain expansions of the solutions of Mathieu'S differential equation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

A. Erdélyi
A. Erdélyi
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Mathematical InstituteThe UniversityEdinburgh 1 Communicated by E. T. Whittaker
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1. There are several known types of expansions of Mathieu functions, i.e. mod 2π periodic solutions of Mathieu's equation ((9), chap. 19),

The simplest expansion is the Fourier series

Almost equally well known are Heine's expansion ((4), p. 414; see also (5) and (6))

and

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 38 , Issue 1 , January 1942 , pp. 28 - 33
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1942

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