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Another Incarnation of the Lambert W Function

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2017-03-21 v1

Abstract

The Lambert W function was introduced by Euler in 1779, but was not well-known until it was implemented in Maple, and the seminal paper of Corless, Gonnet, Hare, Jeffrey and Khuth was published in 1996. In this note we describe a simple problem, which can be straightforwardly solved in terms of the W function.

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@article{arxiv.1703.06833,
  title  = {Another Incarnation of the Lambert W Function},
  author = {Alexander Kheyfits},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.06833},
  year   = {2017}
}
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