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Other orthogonal polynomials, Laguerre polynomials

They fulfil the orthogonality relation \begin{equation*} \int_{0}^{\infty}e^{-x}{\cal L}_n(x)^2dx=1, \end{equation*} and the recursion relation \begin{equation*} (n+1){\cal L}_{n+1}(x)=(2n+1-x){\cal L}_{n}(x)-n{\cal L}_{n-1}(x). \end{equation*}