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►Airy functions play an indispensable role in the construction of uniform asymptotic expansions for contour integrals with coalescing saddle points, and for solutions of linear second-order ordinary differential equations with a simple turning point.
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►In this regard, he has been exploring mathematical knowledge management and the digital expression of mostly unambiguous context-free full semantic information for mathematical formulae.
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►The new DLMF (Digital Library of Mathematical Functions) will appear in a hardcover edition and as a free electronic publication on the World Wide Web.
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►In exactly solved models in statistical mechanics (Baxter (1981, 1982)) the methods and identities of §17.12play a substantial role.
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►They were given this name because they play a role in quantum physics analogous to the role of Lie groups and special functions in classical mechanics.
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►►►Figure 22.19.1: Jacobi’s amplitude function for and .
When , increases monotonically indicating that the motion of the pendulum is unbounded in , corresponding to free rotation about the fulcrum; compare Figure 22.16.1.
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►plays a prototypal role in classical mechanics (Lawden (1989, §5.2)), quantum mechanics (Schulman (1981, Chapter 29)), and quantum field theory (Pokorski (1987, p. 203), Parisi (1988, §14.6)).
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►The classical rotation of rigid bodies in free space or about a fixed point may be described in terms of elliptic, or hyperelliptic, functions if the motion is integrable (Audin (1999, Chapter 1)).
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►The parameters play different roles: is the singularity parameter; are exponent parameters; is the accessory parameter.
The total number of free parameters is six.
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Yu. L. Ratis and P. Fernández de Córdoba (1993)A code to calculate (high order) Bessel functions based on the continued fractions method.
Comput. Phys. Comm.76 (3), pp. 381–388.
M. Razaz and J. L. Schonfelder (1980)High precision Chebyshev expansions for Airy functions and their derivatives.
Technical report
University of Birmingham Computer Centre.
Computer algebra system designed for computations in number theory.
Many transcendental functions are also included.
PARI is also available as a C library to allow for faster computations.
Originally developed by Henri Cohen and co-workers at the Université Bordeaux I.