The Bickley function
is defined by
when
and
, and by analytic continuation elsewhere.
Equivalently,
When
,
For the second equation there is a cut in the
-plane along the interval
,
and all quantities assume their principal values (§4.2(i)). For the
Ferrers function
and the associated Legendre function
, see §§14.3(i) and 14.21(i).

For the hypergeometric function
see §15.2(i).
The Kontorovich–Lebedev transform of a function
is defined as
Then
provided that either of the following sets of conditions is satisfied:
On the interval
,
is continuously
differentiable and each of
and
is absolutely integrable.
is piecewise continuous and of bounded variation on every
compact interval in
, and each of the following integrals
converges.
For collections of integrals of the functions
and
, including integrals with respect to the order, see
Apelblat (1983, §12),
Erdélyi et al. (1953b, §§7.7.1–7.7.7 and 7.14–7.14.2),
Erdélyi et al. (1954a, b),
Gradshteyn and Ryzhik (2000, §§5.5, 6.5–6.7),
Gröbner and Hofreiter (1950, pp. 197–203), Luke (1962),
Magnus et al. (1966, §3.8),
Marichev (1983, pp. 191–216),
Oberhettinger (1972),
Oberhettinger (1974, §§1.11 and 2.7),
Oberhettinger (1990, §§1.17–1.20 and 2.17–2.20),
Oberhettinger and Badii (1973, §§1.15 and 2.13),
Okui (1974, 1975),
Prudnikov et al. (1986b, §§1.11–1.12, 2.15–2.16, 3.2.8–3.2.10, and 3.4.1),
Prudnikov et al. (1992a, §§3.15, 3.16),
Prudnikov et al. (1992b, §§3.15, 3.16),
Watson (1944, Chapter 13), and
Wheelon (1968).