On the evaluation of an integral involving the Whittaker W function

DOI10.1016/J.CAM.2020.113111MaRDI QIDQ2199771zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Aleksey S. Polunchenko, Andrey Pepelyshev

Publication date 14 September 2020

Published in Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cam.2020.113111

Clausen series difference equations hypergeometric functions Sturm-Liouville problem Whittaker functions

Confluent hypergeometric functions, Whittaker functions, ({}_1F_1) (33C15) Generalized hypergeometric series, ({}_pF_q) (33C20) Sturm-Liouville theory (34B24) Additive difference equations (39A10)

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Let \(W_{\kappa,\mu}(z)\) be the Whittaker function, which is a solution of the Kummer-type differential equation \[ w+\left (-\frac{1}{4}+\frac{\kappa}{z}+\frac{\frac{1}{4}-\mu^2}{z^2}\right )w=0. \] The aim of this paper is the evaluation of the integral \[ I(\alpha,\beta)=\int_{\alpha}^{+\infty}W_{1,\beta}^2(x) \frac{dx}{x^2}, \] where \(\alpha\in(0,+\infty)\) and \(\beta\in \mathbb C\) are such that \(W_{1,\beta}(\alpha)=0.\) This type of integral appears in the analytic closed-form solution of a certain Sturm-Liouville problem.

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