Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10678458 | Applied Mathematics Letters | 2005 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
In a recent paper in this journal, Gautschi et al. [W. Gautschi, F.E. Harris, N.M. Temme, Expansions of the exponential integral in incomplete Gamma functions, Appl. Math. Lett. 16 (2003) 1095-1099] presented an interesting expansion formula for the exponential integral E1(z) in a series of the incomplete Gamma function γ(α,z). Their investigation was motivated by a search for better methods of evaluating the exponential integral E1(z) which occurs widely in applications, most notably in quantum-mechanical electronic structure calculations. The object of the present sequel to the work by Gautschi et al. [Expansions of the exponential integral in incomplete Gamma functions, Appl. Math. Lett. 16 (2003) 1095-1099] is to give a rather elementary demonstration of the aforementioned expansion formula and to show how easily it can be put in a much more general setting. Some analogous expansion formulas in series of the complementary incomplete Gamma function Î(α,z) are also considered.
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Authors
Shy-Der Lin, Yi-Shan Chao, H.M. Srivastava,