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In mathematics, the Ince equation, named for Edward Lindsay Ince, is the differential equation
When p is a non-negative integer, it has polynomial solutions called Ince polynomials. In particular, when , then it has a closed-form solution[1]
where is a constant.
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[edit]References
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