Legendre Polynomials - expansion of an isotropic function on a sphere

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Hello.
I don't know what to do with one integral. I am sure it is something very simple, but I just don't see it...

For some reason I am not able to post the equations, so I am attaching them as a separatre file.

Many thanks for help.
 

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mathman said:
Something is missing. It looks like the integration will give you an identity Cl=Cl.

Well, I want to get [tex]C_{l}[/tex], right? That is why I apply [tex]P_{l}[/tex] on the correlation function (1) and integrate - it removes [tex]P_{l}[/tex] and the sum leaving [tex]C_{l}[/tex] * some factor in [tex]l[/tex]. Where do you see a mistake?

Thanks.