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    <title>MaplePrimes - answers and comments on Question, special whittaker functions</title>
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      <title>By convert,CylinderV</title>
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      <itunes:summary>&lt;p&gt;It can be done in such a way.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td style="color: #000000; font-family: Times, serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;" align="right"&gt;(1)&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin: 0 0 0 0; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;" align="left"&gt;&lt;img style="vertical-align: -6;" src="/view.aspx?sf=142632/452304/256e2230cba6663591c8cf43a762765b.gif" alt="b := dsolve(a)" width="98" height="23"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin: 0 0 0 0; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;" align="center"&gt;&lt;img style="vertical-align: -79;" src="/view.aspx?sf=142632/452304/c7b04570b7f96fc35d7e14649d006454.gif" alt="u(t) = _C1*WhittakerM(-1/4-((1/4)*I)*p^2, 1/4, I*t^2)/t^(1/2)+_C2*WhittakerW(-1/4-((1/4)*I)*p^2, 1/4, I*t^2)/t^(1/2)" width="546" height="124" align="middle"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td style="color: #000000; font-family: Times, serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;" align="right"&gt;(2)&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin: 0 0 0 0; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;" align="left"&gt;&lt;img style="vertical-align: -6;" src="/view.aspx?sf=142632/452304/215a0969cc3e1ea48a5346ee581f2d2e.gif" alt="convert(rhs(b), CylinderV)" width="174" height="23"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin: 0 0 0 0; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;" align="center"&gt;&lt;img style="vertical-align: -269;" src="/view.aspx?sf=142632/452304/41097fa38fe5ac7f10d3f10fc4fe66de.gif" alt="(-1/2+(1/2)*I)*_C1*(CylinderV(1/2+((1/2)*I)*p^2, (-1-I)*t)-CylinderV(1/2+((1/2)*I)*p^2, (1+I)*t))*(I*t^2)^(3/4)*Pi*2^(((1/4)*I)*p^2)*(1+sin((1/2)*Pi*(1+I*p^2)))/(t^(3/2)*2^(1+((1/2)*I)*p^2)*cos((1/2)*Pi*(1+I*p^2))^2*GAMMA(1+((1/4)*I)*p^2))+_C2*Pi*(CylinderV(1/2+((1/2)*I)*p^2, -(I*t^2)^(1/2)*2^(1/2))-sin((1/2)*Pi*(1+I*p^2))*CylinderV(1/2+((1/2)*I)*p^2, (I*t^2)^(1/2)*2^(1/2)))*(I*t^2)^(1/4)*2^(1/2+((1/4)*I)*p^2)/(t^(1/2)*cos((1/2)*Pi*(1+I*p^2))^2*GAMMA(1+((1/2)*I)*p^2))" width="546" height="305" align="middle"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td style="color: #000000; font-family: Times, serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;" align="right"&gt;(3)&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="/view.aspx?sf=142632/452304/CylinderV.mw"&gt;Download CylinderV.mw&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href="http://www.maplesoft.com/support/help/search.aspx?term=convert,Cylinder"&gt;?convert,Cylinder&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.maplesoft.com/support/help/search.aspx?term=Cylinder"&gt;?Cylinder&lt;/a&gt; for more info.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PS. &lt;a href="/view.aspx?sf=142632/452307/screen25.01.13.docx"&gt;screen25.01.13.docx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</itunes:summary>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;It can be done in such a way.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td style="color: #000000; font-family: Times, serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;" align="right"&gt;(1)&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin: 0 0 0 0; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;" align="center"&gt;&lt;img style="vertical-align: -79;" src="/view.aspx?sf=142632/452304/c7b04570b7f96fc35d7e14649d006454.gif" alt="u(t) = _C1*WhittakerM(-1/4-((1/4)*I)*p^2, 1/4, I*t^2)/t^(1/2)+_C2*WhittakerW(-1/4-((1/4)*I)*p^2, 1/4, I*t^2)/t^(1/2)" width="546" height="124" align="middle"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td style="color: #000000; font-family: Times, serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;" align="right"&gt;(2)&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="color: #000000; font-family: Times, serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;" align="right"&gt;(3)&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="/view.aspx?sf=142632/452304/CylinderV.mw"&gt;Download CylinderV.mw&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;form name="worksheet_form"&gt;&lt;input type="hidden" name="sequence" value="1"&gt; &lt;input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="none"&gt;&lt;/form&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href="http://www.maplesoft.com/support/help/search.aspx?term=convert,Cylinder"&gt;?convert,Cylinder&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.maplesoft.com/support/help/search.aspx?term=Cylinder"&gt;?Cylinder&lt;/a&gt; for more info.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PS. &lt;a href="/view.aspx?sf=142632/452307/screen25.01.13.docx"&gt;screen25.01.13.docx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <guid>142632</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 01:51:06 Z</pubDate>
      <itunes:author>Markiyan Hirnyk</itunes:author>
      <author>Markiyan Hirnyk</author>
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      <title>Thanks, this has been helpful</title>
      <link>http://www.mapleprimes.com/questions/142626-Special-Whittaker-Functions?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:special whittaker functions:Comments#comment142644</link>
      <itunes:summary>&lt;p&gt;Thanks, this has been helpful&lt;/p&gt;</itunes:summary>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Thanks, this has been helpful&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 17:39:47 Z</pubDate>
      <itunes:author>gdog</itunes:author>
      <author>gdog</author>
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