On the nonoscillatory phase function for Legendre's differential equation

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2017.08.041zbMATH Open1380.33003arXiv1701.03958OpenAlexW2572667212WikidataQ115350123 ScholiaQ115350123MaRDI QIDQ1699028FDOQ1699028

James Bremer, Vladimir Rokhlin

Publication date: 16 February 2018

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We express a certain complex-valued solution of Legendre's differential equation as the product of an oscillatory exponential function and an integral involving only nonoscillatory elementary functions. By calculating the logarithmic derivative of this solution, we show that Legendre's differential equation admits a nonoscillatory phase function. Moreover, we derive from our expression an asymptotic expansion useful for evaluating Legendre functions of the first and second kinds of large orders, as well as the derivative of the nonoscillatory phase function. Numerical experiments demonstrating the properties of our asymptotic expansion are presented.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.03958

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zbMATH Keywords

special functionsfast algorithmsnonoscillatory phase functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical hypergeometric functions, ({}_2F_1) (33C05) Approximation by other special function classes (41A30) Rate of convergence, degree of approximation (41A25) Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to approximations and expansions (41-04)

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Uses Software

• Mathematica
• FastGaussQuadrature

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