Algorithm 969: Computation of the incomplete gamma function for negative values of the argument

DOI10.1145/2972951MaRDI QIDQ3176322zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Amparo Gil, Diego Ruiz-Antolín, Javier Segura, Nico M. Temme

Publication date 20 July 2018

Published in ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.04152

zbMATH Keywords

incomplete gamma functionasymptotic expansionsrecurrence relations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computation of special functions and constants, construction of tables (65D20)

Abstract: An algorithm for computing the incomplete gamma function $gamm{a}^{\ast }(a,z)$ for real values of the parameter $a$ and negative real values of the argument $z$ is presented. The algorithm combines the use of series expansions, Poincar'e-type expansions, uniform asymptotic expansions and recurrence relations, depending on the parameter region. A relative accuracy $sim10^{-13}$ in the parameter region $(a,z)in[-500,,500]imes[-500,,0)$ can be obtained when computing the function $gamm{a}^{\ast }(a,z)$ with the Fortran 90 module IncgamNEG implementing the algorithm.

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