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Rotational Invariance for Laplace's Equation

Fixed values in curvilinear coordinate systems represent geometric surfaces.
spherical: spheres, cones, half-planes
cylindrical: cylinders, planes, half-planes
parabolic: paraboloids of revolution, half-planes
oblate spheroidal: oblate spheroids, 1-sheet hyperboloids of revolution, half-planes
prolate spheroidal: prolate spheroids, 2-sheet hyperboloids of revolution, half-planes
toroidal:toroids of revolution, spherical caps, half-planes
bi-spherical:bi-spheres of revolution, lemons, half-planes
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Fundamental Functions:

Associated Legendre functions:
spheres, oblate spheroids, prolate spheroids, bi-spheres, toroids of revolution

Bessel functions:
circular cylinders, paraboloids of revolution

Lamé functions:
ellipsoids, cyclides


The quadrics and the cyclides

Quadrics:polynomial of order 2


Cyclides:polynomial of order 4


Conformal equivalence through geometric transformation


bisphericalspherical
toroidaloblate spheroidal
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