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Error functions, Mordell integrals and an integral analogue of partial theta function

Number Theory 2016-05-31 v1

Abstract

A new transformation involving the error function erf(z)\textup{erf}(z), the imaginary error function erfi(z)\textup{erfi}(z), and an integral analogue of a partial theta function is given along with its character analogues. Another complementary error function transformation is also obtained which when combined with the first explains a transformation in Ramanujan's Lost Notebook termed by Berndt and Xu as the one for an integral analogue of theta functions. These transformations are used to obtain a variety of exact and approximate evaluations of some non-elementary integrals involving hypergeometric functions. Several asymptotic expansions, including the one for a non-elementary integral involving a product of the Riemann Ξ\Xi-function of two different arguments, are obtained, which generalize known results due to Berndt and Evans, and Oloa.

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@article{arxiv.1605.08904,
  title  = {Error functions, Mordell integrals and an integral analogue of partial theta function},
  author = {Atul Dixit and Arindam Roy and Alexandru Zaharescu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.08904},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

30 pages, to appear in Acta Arithmetica

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