Numerical representations of the incomplete Gamma function of complex-valued argument

DOI10.1023/B:NUMA.0000040063.91709.58zbMATH Open1081.33008arXivmath/0306184OpenAlexW1986185129WikidataQ60692313 ScholiaQ60692313MaRDI QIDQ701929FDOQ701929

Authors: Richard J. Mathar 

Publication date: 17 January 2005

Published in: Numerical Algorithms (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Various approaches to the numerical representation of the Incomplete Gamma Function F_m(z) for complex arguments z and small integer indexes m are compared with respect to numerical fitness (accuracy and speed). We consider power series, Laurent series, Gautschi's approximation to the Faddeeva function, classical numerical methods of treating the standard integral representation, and others not yet covered by the literature. The most suitable scheme is the construction of Taylor expansions around nodes of a regular, fixed grid in the z-plane, which stores a static matrix of higher derivatives. This is the obvious extension to a procedure often in use for real-valued z.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0306184

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zbMATH Keywords

incomplete gamma functionconfluent hypergeometric series

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computation of special functions and constants, construction of tables (65D20) Confluent hypergeometric functions, Whittaker functions, ({}_1F_1) (33C15) Numerical approximation and evaluation of special functions (33F05)

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