Numerical calculation of Bessel, Hankel and Airy functions

DOI10.1016/J.CPC.2011.11.010MaRDI QIDQ1948849zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ulrich D. Jentschura, E. Lötstedt

Publication date 25 April 2013

Published in Computer Physics Communications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.0072

zbMATH Keywords

Airy functionsasymptotic expansionsBessel functionconvergence accelerationDebye polynomialsHankel functionnumerical examplesprinciple of asymptotic overlapsaddle point methodssequence transformations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bessel and Airy functions, cylinder functions, ({}_0F_1) (33C10) Numerical approximation and evaluation of special functions (33F05) Computation of special functions and constants, construction of tables (65D20)

Abstract: The numerical evaluation of an individual Bessel or Hankel function of large order and large argument is a notoriously problematic issue in physics. Recurrence relations are inefficient when an individual function of high order and argument is to be evaluated. The coefficients in the well-known uniform asymptotic expansions have a complex mathematical structure which involves Airy functions. For Bessel and Hankel functions, we present an adapted algorithm which relies on a combination of three methods: (i) numerical evaluation of Debye polynomials, (ii) calculation of Airy functions with special emphasis on their Stokes lines, and (iii) resummation of the entire uniform asymptotic expansion of the Bessel and Hankel functions by nonlinear sequence transformations. In general, for an evaluation of a special function, we advocate the use of nonlinear sequence transformations in order to bridge the gap between the asymptotic expansion for large argument and the Taylor expansion for small argument ("principle of asymptotic overlap"). This general principle needs to be strongly adapted to the current case, taking into account the complex phase of the argument. Combining the indicated techniques, we observe that it possible to extend the range of applicability of existing algorithms. Numerical examples and reference values are given.

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• Mathematica
• Algorithm 838
• DLMF

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