文摘
In this paper, we give new characterizations for the eigenvalues of the prolate wave equation as limits of the zeros of some families of polynomials: the coefficients of the formal power series appearing in the solutions near 0, 1, or ∞ (in the variables equation-construct="true" class="math-equation-construct">equation-image="true" class="math-equation-image">equation-mathml="true" class="math-equation-mathml" style="display:none">x,x−1, or equation-construct="true" class="math-equation-construct">equation-image="true" class="math-equation-image">equation-mathml="true" class="math-equation-mathml" style="display:none">1/x, respectively). The result, which seems to be true for all values of the parameter τ, according to our numerical experiments, is here proved for small values of the parameter τ.