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Symbolic integration of a product of two spherical bessel functions with an additional exponential and polynomial factor

Computational Physics 2015-05-14 v2 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We present a mathematica package that performs the symbolic calculation of integrals of the form \int^{\infty}_0 e^{-x/u} x^n j_{\nu} (x) j_{\mu} (x) dx where jν(x)j_{\nu} (x) and jμ(x)j_{\mu} (x) denote spherical Bessel functions of integer orders, with ν0\nu \ge 0 and μ0\mu \ge 0. With the real parameter u>0u>0 and the integer nn, convergence of the integral requires that n+ν+μ0n+\nu +\mu \ge 0. The package provides analytical result for the integral in its most simplified form. The novel symbolic method employed enables the calculation of a large number of integrals of the above form in a fraction of the time required for conventional numerical and Mathematica based brute-force methods. We test the accuracy of such analytical expressions by comparing the results with their numerical counterparts.

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@article{arxiv.0910.4993,
  title  = {Symbolic integration of a product of two spherical bessel functions with an additional exponential and polynomial factor},
  author = {B. Gebremariam and T. Duguet and S. K. Bogner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.4993},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

17 pages; updated references for the introduction