…
►where
is an arbitrary
constant and
is expressible in
terms of solutions of
.
…
►Depending whether
or
,
is expressible in
terms of the Weierstrass elliptic function (§
23.2) or solutions of
, respectively.
…
…
►in which
are real
constants, can be achieved in
terms of single-valued functions.
…
…
►The first reference also contains explicit expressions for the error
terms, as do
Soni (1980) and
Carlson and Gustafson (1985).
…
►where
(
) is an arbitrary integer and
is an arbitrary small positive
constant.
The last
term is clearly
as
.
…
►where
is Euler’s
constant (§
5.2(ii)).
…
…
►where
is a
constant with explicit expression in
terms of
and
given in
Koornwinder (2007a, (2.8)).
…
…
►Here the
term
represents the quantum kinetic energy of a single particle of mass
, and
its potential energy.
…
►The spectrum is mixed as in §
1.18(viii), with the discrete eigenvalues given by (
18.39.18) and the continuous eigenvalues by
(
) with corresponding eigenfunctions
expressed in
terms of Whittaker functions (
13.14.3).
…
…
►(i) the
traditional OP standardizations of Table
18.3.1, where each is defined in
terms of the above
constants.
…
…
►The expansion (
5.11.1) is called
Stirling’s series (
Whittaker and Watson (1927, §12.33)), whereas the expansion (
5.11.3), or sometimes just its leading
term, is known as
Stirling’s formula (
Abramowitz and Stegun (1964, §6.1),
Olver (1997b, p. 88)).
…
►If the sums in the expansions (
5.11.1) and (
5.11.2) are terminated at
(
) and
is real and positive, then the remainder
terms are bounded in magnitude by the first neglected
terms and have the same sign.
If
is complex, then the remainder
terms are bounded in magnitude by
for (
5.11.1), and
for (
5.11.2), times the first neglected
terms.
…
►For the remainder
term in (
5.11.3) write
…
►For the error
term in (
5.11.19) in the case
and
, see
Olver (1995).
…