Spherical Bessel product integral

ID: spherical-bessel-product-integral

For integer and , and . A proof compares the multipole expansion of with its Fourier transform of inverse distance in three dimensions. Applying the Rayleigh plane-wave expansion to the Fourier representation gives coefficient multiplying ; the Coulomb multipole coefficient is . Equating the coefficients proves the identity. The powers also match continuously at .

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