Investigation of the recurrence relations for the spheroidal wave functions

Abstract

The perturbation method in supersymmetric quantum mechanics (SUSYQM) is used to study the spheroidal wave functions' recurrence relations, which are revealed by the shape-invariance property of the super-potential. The super-potential is expanded by the parameter alpha and could be gotten by approximation method. Up to the first order, it has the shape-invariance property and the excited spheroidal wave functions are gotten. Also, all the first term eigenfunctions obtained are in closed form. They are advantageous to investigating for involved physical problems of spheroidal wave function.