A rational approximant for the digamma function

DOI10.1023/A:1025517617217MaRDI QIDQ1410499zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ernst Joachim Weniger

Publication date 14 October 2003

Published in Numerical Algorithms (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0306305

zbMATH Keywords

digamma functionpower seriesrational approximants

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gamma, beta and polygamma functions (33B15) Approximation by rational functions (41A20) Computation of special functions and constants, construction of tables (65D20)

Abstract: Power series representations for special functions are computationally satisfactory only in the vicinity of the expansion point. Thus, it is an obvious idea to use instead Pad'{e} approximants or other rational functions constructed from sequence transformations. However, neither Pad'{e} approximants nor sequence transformation utilize the information which is avaliable in the case of a special function -- all power series coefficients as well as the truncation errors are explicitly known -- in an optimal way. Thus, alternative rational approximants, which can profit from additional information of that kind, would be desirable. It is shown that in this way a rational approximant for the digamma function can be constructed which possesses a transformation error given by an explicitly known series expansion.

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