In the general form the Heun equation can be written as
+(
)
+(
)=0
where ,
,
,
, q, y1, y2 and y3
are constants, or in a canonical form as (Bateman & Erdélyi 1955)
where α,β, γ,δ,α,q, are constants.
Converted by Mathematica
(February 28, 2003)