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On Computing Jacobi's Elliptic Function \texttt{sn}

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2018-03-15 v1 Numerical Analysis

Abstract

The paper presents a method to compute the Jacobi's elliptic function \texttt{sn} on the period parallelogram. For fixed mm it requires first to compute the complete elliptic integrals K=K(m)K=K(m) and K=K(1m).K'=K(1-m). The Newton method is used to compute sn(z,m), when z[0,K][0,iK).z\in [0,K]\cup[0,i K'). The computation in any other point does not require the usage of any numerical procedure, it is done only with the help of the properties of sn.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1803.05017,
  title  = {On Computing Jacobi's Elliptic Function \texttt{sn}},
  author = {Ernest Scheiber},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.05017},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

12 pages, 3 figures

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