On the asymptotic expansion of the spheroidal wave function and its eigenvalues for complex size parameter

Studies in Applied Mathematics

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 271-301

  Barrowes, Benjamin E ^a,b   O'Neill, Kevin ^b   Grzegorczyk, Tomasz M ^b   Kong, Jin A ^b  

^a Massachusetts Inst of Technology ^*  (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

ANALYTIC CONTINUATION; ASYMPTOTIC EXPANSION; ASYMPTOTIC REGIMES; BRANCH POINTS; EIGEN-VALUE; NUMERICAL SEARCH; PARAMETER C; SEARCH METHOD; SIZE PARAMETERS; SPHEROIDAL WAVE FUNCTIONS;

WAVE FUNCTIONS;

EID: 6044234853     PISSN: 00222526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-2526.2004.01526.x     Document Type: Article

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