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We describe an algorithm to evaluate all the complex branches of the Lambert W function with rigorous error bounds in interval arithmetic, which has been implemented in the Arb library. The classic 1996 paper on the Lambert W function by…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2017-05-10 Fredrik Johansson

The Lambert W function, implicitly defined by W(x) exp{W(x)}=x, is a "new" special function that has recently been the subject of an extended upsurge in interest and applications. In this note, I point out that the Lambert W function can…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-04-10 Matt Visser

Based on a Problem and its solution published on the pages of SIAM Review, we give an interesting integral representation for the Lambert $W$ function in this short note. In particular, our result yields a new integral representation for…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2021-09-13 István Mező

In my 2011 Annals of Applied Statistics article [Goerg (2011)] I wrote that "Whereas the Lambert $W$ function plays an important role in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and other fields, it has not yet been used in statistics."…

Applications · Statistics 2015-03-05 Georg M. Goerg

The Lambert $W$ function, giving the solutions of a simple transcendental equation, has become a famous function and arises in many applications in combinatorics, physics, or population dyamics just to mention a few. In the last decade it…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-06-23 István Mező , Árpád Baricz

This short note presents the Lambert W(x) function and its possible application in the framework of physics related to the Pierre Auger Observatory. The actual numerical implementation in C++ consists of Halley's and Fritsch's iteration…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Darko Veberic

The Lambert W function has utility for solving various exponential and logarithmic equations arranged in the form of $g(x)e^{g(x)}$. Using the Lambert W function and tetration, a variety of categorized inversion formulas are presented.…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2020-10-27 Sidney Edwards

The Lambert W(x) function and its possible applications in physics are presented. The actual numerical implementation in C++ consists of Halley's and Fritsch's iterations with initial approximations based on branch-point expansion,…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Darko Veberic

The Lambert W function gives the solutions of a simple exponential polynomial. The generalized Lambert W function was defined by Mez\"{o} and Baricz, and has found applications in delay differential equations and physics. In this article we…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2018-01-31 Paul Castle

This paper introduces a new numerical method for approximating the Lambert W function in the real domain. The method transforms the function into a simpler form that allows iterative refinement of an initial guess. Two iterative strategies…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Narinder Kumar Wadhawan

Solutions to a wide variety of transcendental equations can be expressed in terms of the Lambert $\mathrm{W}$ function. The $\mathrm{W}$ function, occurring frequently in applications, is a non-elementary, but now standard mathematical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-21 Lajos Lóczi

In this work, we have taken up some distributions, mostly Weibull family, whose quantile functions could not be obtained using the traditional inversion method. We have solved the same quantile functions by using the inversion method only,…

Computation · Statistics 2025-03-26 Subhashree Patra , Subarna Bhattacharjee

In this paper we introduce the $p$-adic analogue of the Lambert $W$ function, and study its main properties.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2018-01-03 István Mező

We apply the recently defined Lambert W function to some problems of classical statistical mechanics, i.e. the Tonks gas and a fluid of classical particles interacting via repulsive pair potentials. The latter case is considered both from…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jean-Michel Caillol

In the present work, we introduce the Lambert-Tsallis Wq function. It is a generalization of the Lambert W function, that solves the equation Wq(x)expq(Wq(x)) = x, where expq(x) is the q-exponential used by Tsallis in nonextensive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-01 G. B. da Silva , R. V. Ramos

This paper investigates the generalized convexity properties of the Lambert $W$ function, defined as the solution to $W(z)e^{W(z)}=z$. Focusing on $H_{p,q}$-convexity and concavity with respect to H\"older means, we derive necessary and…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Gendi Wang

The function $y = g(x) = \mathrm{log}\big(W(e^x)\big)$, where $W()$ denotes the Lambert W function, is the solution to the equation $y + e^y = x$. It appears in various problem situations, for instance the calculation of current-voltage…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-04-09 Ken Roberts

In classical physics, calculating the slack of a hanging chain is a problem that has attracted interest. This study aims to solve this problem through experiment and theory. When the length and distance of both the ends of a hanging chain…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Masato Ito

A new approach is presented for the calculation of p_n and pi_n which uses the Lambert W function. An approximation is first found and using a calculation technique it makes it possible to have an estimate of these two quantities more…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-04 Simon Plouffe

Herein, we present a canonical form for a natural and necessary generalization of the Lambert W function, natural in that it requires minimal mathematical definitions for this generalization, and necessary in that it provides a means of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tony C. Scott , Robert B. Mann
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