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Whittaker functions with both parameters large: uniform approximations in terms of parabolic cylinder functions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

F. W. J. Olver
F. W. J. Olver
Affiliation:
University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, and The National Bureau of Standards, Washington D.C. 20234
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Synopsis

Asymptotic approximations are derived for the Whittaker functions Wκ,μ (z), Mκ, μ (z), Wικ, ιμ (iz) and Mικ, ιμ(iZ) for large positive values of the parameter μ that are uniform with respect to unrestricted values of the argument z in the open interval (0, ∞), and bounded real values of the ratio κ/μ. The approximations are in terms of parabolic cylinder functions, and in most instances are accompanied by strict error bounds.

The results are derived by application of a recently-developed asymptotic theory of second-order differential equations having coalescing turning points, and an extension of the general theory of equations of this kind is also included.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 86 , Issue 3-4 , 1980 , pp. 213 - 234
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1980

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