Overlapping Stokes smoothings: survival of the error function and canonical catastrophe integrals

DOI10.1098/RSPA.1994.0012MaRDI QIDQ4279283zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors M. V. Berry, C. J. Howls

Publication date 30 May 1994

Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical and Physical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1994.0012

zbMATH Keywords

canonical catastrophe integralslarge parameternumerical resultssaddle-point expansionStokes error functionuniform approximations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computation of special functions and constants, construction of tables (65D20) Numerical quadrature and cubature formulas (65D32) General theory of numerical methods in complex analysis (potential theory, etc.) (65E05)

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