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§12.19 Tables

  • Abramowitz and Stegun (1964, Chapter 19) includes \mathop{U\/}\nolimits\!\left(a,x\right) and \mathop{V\/}\nolimits\!\left(a,x\right) for \pm a=0(.1)1(.5)5, x=0(.1)5, 5S; \mathop{W\/}\nolimits\!\left(a,\pm x\right) for \pm a=0(.1)1(1)5, x=0(.1)5, 4-5D or 4-5S.

  • Miller (1955) includes \mathop{W\/}\nolimits\!\left(a,x\right), \mathop{W\/}\nolimits\!\left(a,-x\right), and reduced derivatives for a=-10(1)10, x=0(.1)10, 8D or 8S. Modulus and phase functions, and also other auxiliary functions are tabulated.

  • Fox (1960) includes modulus and phase functions for \mathop{W\/}\nolimits\!\left(a,x\right) and \mathop{W\/}\nolimits\!\left(a,-x\right), and several auxiliary functions for x^{{-1}}=0(.005)0.1, a=-10(1)10, 8S.

  • Kireyeva and Karpov (1961) includes \mathop{D_{{p}}\/}\nolimits\!\left(x(1+i)\right) for \pm x=0(.1)5, p=0(.1)2, and \pm x=5(.01)10, p=0(.5)2, 7D.

  • Karpov and Čistova (1964) includes \mathop{D_{{p}}\/}\nolimits\!\left(x\right) for p=-2(.1)0, \pm x=0(.01)5; p=-2(.05)0, \pm x=5(.01)10, 6D.

  • Karpov and Čistova (1968) includes e^{{-\frac{1}{4}x^{2}}}\mathop{D_{{p}}\/}\nolimits\!\left(-x\right) and e^{{-\frac{1}{4}x^{2}}}\mathop{D_{{p}}\/}\nolimits\!\left(ix\right) for x=0(.01)5 and x^{{-1}} = 0(.001 or .0001)5, p=-1(.1)1, 7D or 8S.

  • Murzewski and Sowa (1972) includes \mathop{D_{{-n}}\/}\nolimits\!\left(x\right) \left(=\mathop{U\/}\nolimits\!\left(n-\tfrac{1}{2},x\right)\right) for n=1(1)20, x=0(.05)3, 7S.

  • Zhang and Jin (1996, pp. 455–473) includes \mathop{U\/}\nolimits\!\left(\pm n-\frac{1}{2},x\right), \mathop{V\/}\nolimits\!\left(\pm n-\frac{1}{2},x\right), \mathop{U\/}\nolimits\!\left(\pm\nu-\frac{1}{2},x\right), \mathop{V\/}\nolimits\!\left(\pm\nu-\frac{1}{2},x\right), and derivatives, \nu=n+\frac{1}{2}, n=0(1)10(10)30, x=0.5,1,5,10,30,50, 8S; \mathop{W\/}\nolimits\!\left(a,\pm x\right), \mathop{W\/}\nolimits\!\left(-a,\pm x\right), and derivatives, a=h(1)5+h, x=0.5,1 and a=h(1)5+h, x=5, h=0,0.5, 8S. Also, first zeros of \mathop{U\/}\nolimits\!\left(a,x\right), \mathop{V\/}\nolimits\!\left(a,x\right), and of derivatives, a=-6(.5){-1}, 6D; first three zeros of \mathop{W\/}\nolimits\!\left(a,-x\right) and of derivative, a=0(.5)4, 6D; first three zeros of \mathop{W\/}\nolimits\!\left(-a,\pm x\right) and of derivative, a=0.5(.5)5.5, 6D; real and imaginary parts of \mathop{U\/}\nolimits\!\left(a,z\right), a=-1.5(1)1.5, z=x+iy, x=0.5,1,5,10, y=0(.5)10, 8S.

For other tables prior to 1961 see Fletcher et al. (1962) and Lebedev and Fedorova (1960).