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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

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

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

Problems formulated in terms of logarithmic or exponential equations often use the Lambert $W$ function in their solutions. Expansions, approximations and bounds on $W$ have been derived in an effort to gain a better understanding of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-20 Ioannis Chatzigeorgiou

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

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

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

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 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

We present a new approach to examine transient dynamics in a class of non-autonomous delay differential equations. Exact solutions for these equations are obtained using the Lambert W function alongside an appropriately chosen initial…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-08-20 Kenta Ohira , Toru Ohira

The Lambert-W explicit solutions to the QCD renormalization group (RG) equation are considered up to fourth order in the ${\bar {MS}}$ scheme. We compare, systematically, these solutions with the conventional asymptotical (iterative)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 B. A. Magradze

We study some series expansions for the Lambert $W$ function. We show that known asymptotic series converge in both real and complex domains. We establish the precise domains of convergence and other properties of the series, including…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2012-08-06 German A. Kalugin , David J. Jeffrey

In this article, we provide a comprehensive analysis of the asymptotic behavior of Bell numbers, enhancing and unifying various results previously dispersed in the literature. We establish several explicit lower and upper bounds. The main…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Jerzy Grunwald , Grzegorz Serafin

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

Employing the Lagrange inverting series, a solution of the transcendental equation $(x-a)(x-b)=le^{x}$, that can be considered a quadratic generalization of the equation defining Lambert $W$ function, has been found in terms of Bessel…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-04-28 Giorgio Mugnaini

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

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

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

To decide upon the arithmetic nature of some numbers may be a non-trivial problem. Some cases are well know, for example exp(1) and W(1), where W is the Lambert function, are transcendental numbers. The Tsallis q-exponential, e_q (z), and…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-04-16 J. L. E. da Silva , R. V. Ramos

After defining in detail the Lambert $W$-function branches, we give a large number of exact identities involving (infinite) symmetric functions of these branches, as well as geometrically convergent series for all the branches. In doing so,…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Henri Cohen
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