Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (SIGMA)


SIGMA 12 (2016), 101, 5 pages      arXiv:1609.02827      https://doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2016.101

Uniform Asymptotic Expansion for the Incomplete Beta Function

Gergő Nemes and Adri B. Olde Daalhuis
Maxwell Institute and School of Mathematics, The University of Edinburgh, Peter Guthrie Tait Road, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, UK

Received September 12, 2016, in final form October 21, 2016; Published online October 25, 2016

Abstract
In [Temme N.M., Special functions. An introduction to the classical functions of mathematical physics, A Wiley-Interscience Publication, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1996, Section 11.3.3.1] a uniform asymptotic expansion for the incomplete beta function was derived. It was not obvious from those results that the expansion is actually an asymptotic expansion. We derive a remainder estimate that clearly shows that the result indeed has an asymptotic property, and we also give a recurrence relation for the coefficients.

Key words: incomplete beta function; uniform asymptotic expansion.

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