Re: [Help-gsl] Spherical Harmonics

[Brian Gough]

Peng Yu writes:
 > I am trying to use spherical harmonics descriptors. So I need a
 > function to give me the value of Y_lm for each input of (theta,
 > phi). Therefore, I was hoping I could use the Legendre function in
 > your library.
 > 
 > Ideally I hope that Legendre function could give me a value
 > P_lm(cos(theta)).  But I did not see anything close to that in the
 > library. Could you help me out? Thanks a lot for your effort!

See the section on "Associated Legendre Polynomials and Spherical
Harmonics" in the Special functions chapter of the reference manual.

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Brian Gough

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