Laguerre Polynomials - Relation To Hypergeometric Functions

Relation To Hypergeometric Functions

The Laguerre polynomials may be defined in terms of hypergeometric functions, specifically the confluent hypergeometric functions, as

where is the Pochhammer symbol (which in this case represents the rising factorial).

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