On the paper ``A continued fraction approximation of the modified Bessel function I_ 1(t) by P. R. Parthasarathy and N. Balakrishnan

DOI10.1016/0893-9659(91)90143-JMaRDI QIDQ809538zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Walter Gautschi

Publication date 1991

Published in Applied Mathematics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0893-9659(91)90143-J

zbMATH Keywords

continued fractionGauss-Chebyshev quadratureGauss-Radau quadraturemodified Bessel function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bessel and Airy functions, cylinder functions, ({}_0F_1) (33C10) Computation of special functions and constants, construction of tables (65D20)

Review text

In the paper mentioned in the title [ibid. 3, No.4, 13-15 (1990; Zbl 0709.65013)] the authors use the continued fraction \[ f(x)=\frac{1/2}{s+1}-\frac{1/4}{s+1}-\frac{1/4}{s+1}-... \] and its convergents to approximate \((1)\quad F_ 1(x)=e^{-x}I_ 1(x)/x,\) where \(I_ 1\) is the modified Bessel function of order 1. Here we point out that (i) the approximation found is simply a Gauss-Chebyshev quadrature approximation of an integral representation for the function (1); (ii) the author's statement concerning the accuracy of their approximation on the interval \(0\leq x\leq 20\) is inaccurate and misleading; (iii) the approximation is ``from below, but can be supplemented by an approximation ``from above using Gauss-Radau quadrature; (iv) similar approximations can be had for Bessel functions \(I_{\nu}\) of arbitrary order \(\nu >-1/2\).

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• A continued fraction approximation of the modified Bessel function \(I_ 1(t)\)

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Uses Software

• Algorithm 236
• Algorithm 597
• IBESS JBESS

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