New approximations to the principal real-valued branch of the Lambert \(W\)-function

DOI10.1007/s10444-017-9530-3zbMath1381.33020OpenAlexW2600061915MaRDI QIDQ1693589

John P. Boyd, Roberto Iacono

Publication date: 31 January 2018

Published in: Advances in Computational Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10444-017-9530-3

zbMATH Keywords

iterative methodsChebyshev seriesLambert functionChebyshev proxy rootfinderglobal analytic approximations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Best approximation, Chebyshev systems (41A50) Computation of special functions and constants, construction of tables (65D20) Other hypergeometric functions and integrals in several variables (33C70)

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Uses Software

• WAPR
• DLMF
• Algorithm 443
• LAMBERTW

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