Uniform asymptotic expansions for the Whittaker functions M_, (z) and W_, (z) with large

DOI10.1098/RSPA.2021.0360MaRDI QIDQ6985128zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors T. M. Dunster

Publication date 13 May 2025

Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. A. Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1098/RSPA.2021.0360

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic expansionsconfluent hypergeometric functionsturning pointsWhittaker functionsWKB methods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bessel and Airy functions, cylinder functions, ({}_0F_1) (33C10) Confluent hypergeometric functions, Whittaker functions, ({}_1F_1) (33C15) Asymptotic expansions of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34E05) Singular perturbation problems for ordinary differential equations in the complex domain (complex WKB, turning points, steepest descent) (34M60)

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