Computation of parabolic cylinder functions having complex argument

DOI10.1016/J.APNUM.2023.11.017MaRDI QIDQ6131512zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 5 April 2024

Published in Applied Numerical Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

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Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.16982

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asymptotic expansionsnumerical algorithmsnumerical quadratureparabolic cylinder functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical approximation and evaluation of special functions (33F05) Symbolic computation of special functions (Gosper and Zeilberger algorithms, etc.) (33F10) Approximate quadratures (41A55) Asymptotic approximations, asymptotic expansions (steepest descent, etc.) (41A60) Computation of special functions and constants, construction of tables (65D20) Numerical quadrature and cubature formulas (65D32)

Abstract: Numerical methods for the computation of the parabolic cylinder $U(a,z)$ for real $a$ and complex $z$ are presented. The main tools are recent asymptotic expansions involving exponential and Airy functions, with slowly varying analytic coefficient functions involving simple coefficients, and stable integral representations; these two main main methods can be complemented with Maclaurin series and a Poincar'e asymptotic expansion. We provide numerical evidence showing that the combination of these methods is enough for computing the function with $5imes10^{-13}$ relative accuracy in double precision floating point arithmetic.

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