116 research outputs found
Generalized exponential and logarithmic functions
AbstractGeneralizations of the exponential and logarithmic functions are defined and an investigation is made of two possible versions of these functions. Some applications are described, including computer arithmetic, properties of very large and very small numbers, and the determination of functional roots
Error bounds for the large-argument asymptotic expansions of the Hankel and Bessel functions
In this paper, we reconsider the large-argument asymptotic expansions of the
Hankel, Bessel and modified Bessel functions and their derivatives. New
integral representations for the remainder terms of these asymptotic expansions
are found and used to obtain sharp and realistic error bounds. We also give
re-expansions for these remainder terms and provide their error estimates. A
detailed discussion on the sharpness of our error bounds and their relation to
other results in the literature is given. The techniques used in this paper
should also generalize to asymptotic expansions which arise from an application
of the method of steepest descents.Comment: 32 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in Acta Applicandae
Mathematica
Unique positive solution for an alternative discrete Painlevé I equation
We show that the alternative discrete Painleve I equation has a unique solution which remains positive for all n >0. Furthermore, we identify this positive solution in terms of a special solution of the second Painleve equation involving the Airy function Ai(t). The special-function solutions of the second Painleve equation involving only the Airy function Ai(t) therefore have the property that they remain positive for all n>0 and all t>0, which is a new characterization of these special solutions of the second Painlevé equation and the alternative discrete Painlevé I equation
An explicit formula for the coefficients in Laplace's method
Laplace's method is one of the fundamental techniques in the asymptotic
approximation of integrals. The coefficients appearing in the resulting
asymptotic expansion, arise as the coefficients of a convergent or asymptotic
series of a function defined in an implicit form. Due to the tedious
computation of these coefficients, most standard textbooks on asymptotic
approximations of integrals do not give explicit formulas for them.
Nevertheless, we can find some more or less explicit representations for the
coefficients in the literature: Perron's formula gives them in terms of
derivatives of an explicit function; Campbell, Fr\"oman and Walles simplified
Perron's method by computing these derivatives using an explicit recurrence
relation. The most recent contribution is due to Wojdylo, who rediscovered the
Campbell, Fr\"oman and Walles formula and rewrote it in terms of partial
ordinary Bell polynomials. In this paper, we provide an alternative
representation for the coefficients, which contains ordinary potential
polynomials. The proof is based on Perron's formula and a theorem of Comtet.
The asymptotic expansions of the gamma function and the incomplete gamma
function are given as illustrations.Comment: 14 pages, to appear in Constructive Approximatio
Sharp spectral stability estimates via the Lebesgue measure of domains for higher order elliptic operators
We prove sharp stability estimates for the variation of the eigenvalues of
non-negative self-adjoint elliptic operators of arbitrary even order upon
variation of the open sets on which they are defined. These estimates are
expressed in terms of the Lebesgue measure of the symmetric difference of the
open sets. Both Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions are considered
On Orthogonal and Symplectic Matrix Ensembles
The focus of this paper is on the probability, , that a set
consisting of a finite union of intervals contains no eigenvalues for the
finite Gaussian Orthogonal () and Gaussian Symplectic ()
Ensembles and their respective scaling limits both in the bulk and at the edge
of the spectrum. We show how these probabilities can be expressed in terms of
quantities arising in the corresponding unitary () ensembles. Our most
explicit new results concern the distribution of the largest eigenvalue in each
of these ensembles. In the edge scaling limit we show that these largest
eigenvalue distributions are given in terms of a particular Painlev\'e II
function.Comment: 34 pages. LaTeX file with one figure. To appear in Commun. Math.
Physic
On a semiclassical formula for non-diagonal matrix elements
Let be a Schr\"odinger operator on the real
line, be a bounded observable depending only on the coordinate and
be a fixed integer. Suppose that an energy level intersects the potential
in exactly two turning points and lies below
. We consider the semiclassical limit
, and where is the th
eigen-energy of . An asymptotic formula for , the
non-diagonal matrix elements of in the eigenbasis of , has
been known in the theoretical physics for a long time. Here it is proved in a
mathematically rigorous manner.Comment: LaTeX2
Characteristic Polynomials of Sample Covariance Matrices: The Non-Square Case
We consider the sample covariance matrices of large data matrices which have
i.i.d. complex matrix entries and which are non-square in the sense that the
difference between the number of rows and the number of columns tends to
infinity. We show that the second-order correlation function of the
characteristic polynomial of the sample covariance matrix is asymptotically
given by the sine kernel in the bulk of the spectrum and by the Airy kernel at
the edge of the spectrum. Similar results are given for real sample covariance
matrices
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