Skip to main content
1 of 2

Indefinite summing of multiplication of two Bessel function

could anyone give a insight of how to demonstrate the following formula?

$\sum_{n=-\infty}^{+\infty}J_{n}(\alpha)J_{N+n}(\alpha)=\delta_{N0}$,

where $N$ is an integer. I checked many references but failed to figure out the calculation method. Btw, I found this relation during some numerical calculations about Bessel functions.

Thank you very much in advance.