An asymptotic for the K-Bessel function using the saddle-point method

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Authors Jimmy Tseng

Publication date 20 February 2023

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bessel and Airy functions, cylinder functions, ({}_0F_1) (33C10) Asymptotic approximations, asymptotic expansions (steepest descent, etc.) (41A60)

Abstract: Using the saddle-point method, we compute an asymptotic, as $yightarrowinfty$, for the $K$-Bessel function $K_{r+it}(y)$ with positive, real argument $y$ and of large complex order $r+it$ where $r$ is bounded and $t=ysinheta$ for a fixed parameter $0leqhetaleqpi/2$ or $t=ycoshmu$ for a fixed parameter $mu>0$. Our method gives an illustrative proof, using elementary tools, of this known result and explains how these asymptotics come about. As part of our proof, we prove a new result, namely a novel integral representation for $K_{r+it}(y)$ in the case $t=ycoshmu$. This integral representation involves only one saddle point.

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