I was reviewing an article , and I encountered issues with the steps on how to normalize wave function of confluence hypergeometry
This is basic maths or calculus, which your lecturer or tutor, who I think set you this problem, will expect you to be able to do.
The integral in the third line is supposed to equal one, or unity. That is what normalisation means in this case. If N =1 the integral will almost certainly not be =1. Find out what it is leaving N in it, and then what N has to be for that to equal 1.
The two equations at the bottom give results you probably didn't know that will be required to evaluate the integral. You will need the definitions in the fourth and fifth lines. The integral might need to be done in parts which might result in iteration and terms like the one in the fourth line - but that is only a guess.
For this kind of topic, see the appendix of Landau Lifshitz, Non relativistic QM
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