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Zbl 0965.33001
Gautschi, Walter
The incomplete gamma functions since Tricomi. (English)
[A] Tricomi's ideas and contemporary applied mathematics. Proceedings of the international conference held on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Francesco G. Tricomi, Rome, Italy, November 28-29 and Turin, Italy, December 1-2, 1997. Rome: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Atti Convegni Lincei. 147, 203-237 (1998).

This is a very thorough and enjoyable survey on the incomplete gamma functions and their Tricomi-variants $\gamma^\ast(a,x)=x^{-a}\int_0^x e^{-t}t^{a-1} dt/\Gamma(a)$ and $\gamma_1(a,x)=\Gamma(a)x^a \gamma^\ast(a,-x).$ There are 160 references and the author even corrects errors in a few. In addition to what the title promiseses, the paper starts with a brief account of the history of the subject before 1950, followed by an affectionate but not uncritical description of Tricomi's contributions. The main body (two thirds) of the paper deals with approximation, asymptotics, Stokes's phenomenon, zeros, inverse functions, inequalities, monotonicity, numerical methods, generalizations, and links to other special functions after Tricomi.
[János Aczél (Waterloo/Ontario)]

MSC 2000:: *33-02 Research monographs (special functions)
33B20 Incomplete beta and gamma functions
33-03 Historical (special functions)
33C15 Confluent hypergeometric functions
33C45 Orthogonal polynomials and functions of hypergeometric type
33F05 Numerical approximation of special functions
41A30 Approximation by other special function classes
41A58 Series expansions
26A48 Monotonic functions, generalizations (one real variable)
26D07 Inequalities involving other types of real functions

Keywords: incomplete gamma functions; confluent hypergeometric functions; Laguerre polynomials; error function; Stokes's phenomenon; inequalities; monotonicity; numerical methods

Cited in: Zbl 1131.33003

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