§19.7 Connection Formulas
Contents
- §19.7(i) Complete Integrals of the First and Second Kinds
- §19.7(ii) Change of Modulus and Amplitude
- §19.7(iii) Change of Parameter of

§19.7(i) Complete Integrals of the First and Second Kinds
¶ Legendre’s Relation
Also,
where upper signs apply if
and lower signs if
. This dichotomy of signs (missing in several references)
is due to Fettis (1970).
§19.7(ii) Change of Modulus and Amplitude
¶ Reciprocal-Modulus Transformation
¶ Imaginary-Modulus Transformation
where
¶ Imaginary-Argument Transformation
With
,
For two further transformations of this type see Erdélyi et al. (1953b, p. 316).
§19.7(iii) Change of Parameter of
There are three relations connecting
and
, where
is a rational function of
. If
and
are real, then both integrals are circular
cases or both are hyperbolic cases (see §19.2(ii)).
The first of the three relations maps each circular region onto itself and each
hyperbolic region onto the other; in particular, it gives the Cauchy principal
value of
when
(see
(19.6.5) for the complete case). Let
. Then
Since
we have
; hence
implies
.
The second relation maps each hyperbolic region onto itself and each circular region onto the other:
The third relation (missing from the literature of Legendre’s integrals) maps each circular region onto the other and each hyperbolic region onto the other:

