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MR. F. W. DYSON ON THE POTENTIAL OF AN ANCHOR RING.
Similarly
is a solution.
Let
stand for either of these integrals. Then
is also a solution of Laplace's equation.
For different values of
and
the solutions are not all independent: as it is easily seen that
satisfies a linear partial differential equation of the second order in
and
.
But two independent sets of solutions are obtained by giving different values to
in
and
The only cases considered in this paper are when
or
. That is the solutions of the forms
;
;
;
and
;
as these cover all the cases to which the functions are applied in this paper.
It is easily seen that
and, consequently,