Asymptotic expansions for the incomplete gamma function in the transition regions

DOI10.1090/MCOM/3391MaRDI QIDQ4629378zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Gergő Nemes, A. B. Olde Daalhuis

Publication date 22 March 2019

Published in Mathematics of Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.07841

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic expansionsincomplete gamma functionstransition regions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic approximations, asymptotic expansions (steepest descent, etc.) (41A60) Incomplete beta and gamma functions (error functions, probability integral, Fresnel integrals) (33B20)

Abstract: We construct asymptotic expansions for the normalised incomplete gamma function $Q(a,z)=Gamma(a,z)/Gamma(a)$ that are valid in the transition regions, including the case $zapproxa$, and have simple polynomial coefficients. For Bessel functions, these type of expansions are well known, but for the normalised incomplete gamma function they were missing from the literature. A detailed historical overview is included. We also derive an asymptotic expansion for the corresponding inverse problem, which has importance in probability theory and mathematical statistics. The coefficients in this expansion are again simple polynomials, and therefore its implementation is straightforward. As a byproduct, we give the first complete asymptotic expansion as $ao-infty$ of the unique negative zero of the regularised incomplete gamma function $gamm{a}^{\ast }(a,x)$.

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