Expansion of some singular kernel with the help of Bessel and Neumann spherical harmonic functions

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With the following notations:

  • $j_n$: spherical Bessel functions,
  • $y_n$: spherical Neumann function,
  • $P_n$: Legendre polynomial,
  • $r$, $\rho$, $\theta$, $\lambda$ arbitrary complex, $R=\sqrt{r^2+\rho^2-2r\rho\cos\theta},$

I want a justification of those two expansions: \begin{align} \frac{\sin(\lambda R)}{\lambda R}=\sum_{n=0}^\infty (2n+1)\,j_n(\lambda R)\,j_n(\lambda \rho)\,P_n(\cos\theta),\\ -\frac{\cos(\lambda R)}{\lambda R}=\sum_{n=0}^\infty (2n+1)\,j_n(\lambda R)\,y_n(\lambda \rho)\,P_n(\cos\theta) \end{align} with $|r e^{\pm i\theta}|<|\rho|$.