Re: Evaluation of AiryAi on the complex plane
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- Subject: [mg44971] Re: Evaluation of AiryAi on the complex plane
- From: David Wood <me at floyd.attbi.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 05:28:23 -0500 (EST)
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Mauricio Bedoya <mbedoya at tutopia.com> wrote: > I'm in trouble evaluating the AiryAi function. I need to evaluate it > around the point (11.18,0) or (11.18 + I 0.0). When I sweep the real > axis there is no problem [1], it has a value of 2 10^-12 on all the > range. > But when I choose a range on a complex line [2], the function throws a > 0 value on all the range. The Airy functions are related to Bessel functions of order 1/3; have you tried this route to evaluating them? (I can't find a direct reference at the moment, or I'd quote it for you.) -- David M. Wood, Dept. of Physics, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401 Phone: (303) 273-3853; Fax: (303) 273-3919 http://www.mines.edu/Academic/physics/people/pages/wood.html
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