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Information entropy of Gegenbauer polynomials

V S Buyarov1, P López-Artés2, A Martínez-Finkelshtein2,3 and W Van Assche4

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The information entropy of Gegenbauer polynomials is relevant since this is related to the angular part of the information entropies of certain quantum mechanical systems such as the harmonic oscillator and the hydrogen atom in D dimensions. We give an effective method to compute the entropy for Gegenbauer polynomials with an integer parameter and obtain the first few terms in the asymptotic expansion as the degree of the polynomial tends to infinity.


PACS

02.30.Gp Special functions

MSC

34E05 Asymptotic expansions

94A17 Measures of information, entropy

33C47 Other special orthogonal polynomials and functions

Subjects

Mathematical physics

Dates

Issue 37 (22 September 2000)

Received 6 March 2000, in final form 27 June 2000



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