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A New Special Function and Its Application in Probability

General Mathematics 2025-12-30 v1

Abstract

In this note we present a new special function that behaves like the error function and we provide an approximated accurate closed form for its CDF in terms of both Chebyshev polynomials of the first kind and the error function. Also, we provide its series representation using Pad\'e approximant. We show convincing numerical evidence of an accuracy of 10610^{-6} for the approximants in the sense of the quadratic mean norm. A similar approach may be applied to other probability distributions, for example, the Maxwell--Boltzmann distribution and the normal distribution, and we show its application using both of those distributions.

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@article{arxiv.2512.22224,
  title  = {A New Special Function and Its Application in Probability},
  author = {Zeraoulia Rafik and Alvaro H Salas and David L Ocampo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.22224},
  year   = {2025}
}

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17 pages,12 figures

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