…
►An alternative way of representing the
error terms in (
2.8.15) and (
2.8.16) is as follows.
…
►Again, an alternative way of representing the
error terms in (
2.8.29) and (
2.8.30) is by means of envelope functions.
…
…
►The
error term is, in fact, approximately 700 times the last
term obtained in (
2.11.4).
…
►These answers are linked to the
terms involving the complementary
error function in the more powerful expansions typified by the combination of (
2.11.10) and (
2.11.15).
…Hence from §
7.12(i)
is of the same exponentially-small order of magnitude as the contribution from the other
terms in (
2.11.15) when
is large.
…
►However, to enjoy the resurgence property (§
2.7(ii)) we often seek instead expansions in
terms of the
-functions introduced in §
2.11(iii), leaving the connection of the
error-function type behavior as an implicit consequence of this property of the
-functions.
…
…
►The first reference also contains explicit expressions for the
error terms, as do
Soni (1980) and
Carlson and Gustafson (1985).
…
…
►(Note: If the
term
in (
10.21.43) is omitted, then the uniform character of the
error term
is destroyed.)
…
…
►Integrals of the type
, where
is an arbitrary rational function, can be written in closed form in
terms of the
error functions and elementary functions.
…
…
►For other uniform asymptotic approximations of the incomplete gamma functions in
terms of the function
see
Paris (2002b) and
Dunster (1996a).
…
…
►
§7.12(i) Complementary Error Function
…
►When
the remainder
terms are bounded in magnitude by the first neglected
terms, and have the same sign as these
terms when
.
…For these and other
error bounds see
Olver (1997b, pp. 109–112), with
and
replaced by
; compare (
7.11.2).
…
►(Note that some of these re-expansions themselves involve the complementary
error function.)
…
►The remainder
terms are given by
…
…
►Although they are obtained (with some exceptions) by approximating uniformly the integrand of each elliptic integral, some occur also as the leading
terms of known asymptotic series with
error bounds (
Wong (1983, §4),
Carlson and Gustafson (1985),
López (2000, 2001)).
…