next up previous contents
Next: The Orthogonal Quadrilateral Basis Up: Orthogonal (Modal) Bases Previous: Orthogonal (Modal) Bases

The Orthogonal Triangle Basis

The triangle is a special case of the tetrahedron with c=-1. As before, we can specify a self-adjoint operator that has the orthogonal basis, proposed by Proriol [17] and later by Koornwinder [18] then Dubiner [16], as its eigenfunctions. We set out the scaled coordinate system, operator and eigenfunction/eigenvalue pairs:

T. Warburton
10/24/1998