Evaluation of associated Legendre functions off the cut and parabolic cylinder functions

Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 9, Issue , 1999, Pages 137-146

  Segura, Javier ^a   Gil, Amparo ^a  

^a MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Computation of special functions; Legendre functions; Parabolic cylinder functions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141948083     PISSN: 10689613     EISSN: 10689613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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