Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society

Table of Contents - Volume 38 - 1919  

Research Article

The Modified Bessel Function Kn(z)

Dr T. M. MacRobert

Gray and Mathews, in their treatise on Bessel Functions, define the function Kn(z) to be

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We shall denote this function by Vn(z). This definition only holds when z is real, and R(n)≧0. The asymptotic expansion of the function is also given; but the proof, which is said to be troublesome and not very satisfactory, is omitted. Basset (Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc., Vol. 6) gives a similar definition of the function.

(Received February 13 1919)