The evaluation of Legendre functions of the second kind

DOI10.1007/BF02198295MaRDI QIDQ1895979zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors D. B. Hunter

Publication date 11 December 1995

Published in Numerical Algorithms (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02198295

zbMATH Keywords

error analysisHeine's integral representationLegendre functionsnumerical resultstrapezoidal rule

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Orthogonal polynomials and functions of hypergeometric type (Jacobi, Laguerre, Hermite, Askey scheme, etc.) (33C45) Computation of special functions and constants, construction of tables (65D20)

Review text

Legendre functions of the second kind are evaluated by applying the trapezoidal rule to Heine's integral representation. An error analysis is given, and some numerical results are obtained.

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