Recently, several authors demonstrated the usefulness of fractional calculu
s in obtaining particular solutions of a number of such familiar second-ord
er differential equations as those associated with Gauss, Legendre, Jacobi,
Chebyshev, Coulomb, Whittaker, Euler, Hermite, and Weber equations. The ma
in object of this paper is to show how some of the latest contributions on
the subject by Tu et al. [1], involving the associated Legendre, Euler, and
Hermite equations, can be presented in a unified manner by suitably appeal
ing to a general theorem on particular solutions of a certain class of frac
tional differintegral equations. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights
reserved.