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The integral \(\frac{1}{2\pi i}\oint\frac{\exp[\frac{z}{2}(t - \frac{1}{t})]}{t^{n+1}}dt\), where n is an integer and the closed contour is a circle enclosing the origin, can be used to :

  • A.generate Hermite polynomials
  • B.generate Bessel's functions of first kind
  • C.generate Legendre polynomials
  • D.generate associated Legendre polynomials

Answer: B

The integral is the contour-integral form of the Bessel functions of the first kind, \(J_{n}(z)\).

The generating function of the Bessel functions is

\[ \begin{aligned} &\exp\left[\frac{z}{2}\left(t - \frac{1}{t}\right)\right] \\ &= \sum_{n=-\infty}^{\infty} J_{n}(z)\,t^{n} \end{aligned} \]

Dividing by \(t^{n+1}\) and integrating round the origin keeps only the \(1/t\) term, so by the residue theorem the integral equals \(J_{n}(z)\), which is the standard contour-integral representation of \(J_{n}\).

The other families have different generating functions: \(e^{2xt - t^{2}}\) for the Hermite polynomials and \((1 - 2xt + t^{2})^{-1/2}\) for the Legendre polynomials, from which the associated Legendre functions are obtained by differentiation.

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