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How do I evaluate a symbolic integral involving Hermite polynomials?

I want to test a difficult integral : Integral on all reals of some complicated function involving the Hermitian polynomials, exponentials, squares, factorials, and being general considering any ...
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Integrating the Associated Legendre Polynomials

I know the following identity: $\qquad \int_{-1}^1 P_l^m(t)^2dt=\frac{2(m+n)!}{(2n+1)(n-m)!}$ I would like to verify this result using Mathematica. This is what I entered: ...
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Integrate Squared Legendre Polynomial

With the same purpose as this question, I wish to evaluate an integral that contains the squared Legendre Polynomials. $\int_{-1}^{1}\left[P_n(x)\right]^2dx=\frac{2}{2n+1}$ I tried evaluating with ...
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How to check whether Laguerre polynomials are orthogonal?

I've got the problem with checking if Laguerre polynomials for n=1,...,10 are orthogonal. I have to create the list of these polynomials, then create the matrix of integrals from 0 to infinity. ...
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