Transitory minimal solutions of hypergeometric recursions and pseudoconvergence of associated continued fractions

Mathematics of Computation

Volumn 76, Issue 258, 2007, Pages 879-901

  Deaño, Alfredo ^a   Segura, Javier ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Condition and stability; Continued fractions; Hypergeometric functions; Numerical evaluation of special functions; Recurrence relations

Indexed keywords

EID: 35348893315     PISSN: 00255718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S0025-5718-07-01934-5     Document Type: Article

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