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Laguerre polynomials

Using Legendre polynomials for the Gaussian quadrature is not very efficient. There are several reasons for this:

  • You can easily end up in situations where the integrand diverges
  • The limits ± have to be approximated with a finite number
It is very useful here to change to spherical coordinates dr1dr2=r21dr1r22dr2dcos(θ1)dcos(θ2)dϕ1dϕ2, and 1r12=1r21+r222r1r2cos(β) with cos(β)=cos(θ1)cos(θ2)+sin(θ1)sin(θ2)cos(ϕ1ϕ2))