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Lecture

Analytical Extension of Gamma Function

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MATH-201: Analysis III

Calcul différentiel et intégral. Eléments d'analyse complexe. ...

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This lecture covers the analytical extension of the Gamma function to the real and complex numbers, discussing its properties, functional equations, and convergence. The slides present the process step by step, from the definition of the Gamma function to its extension to complex numbers.

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Joachim Stubbe

Marco Picasso

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Analysis: Complex analysis

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Gamma function

In mathematics, the gamma function (represented by Γ, the capital letter gamma from the Greek alphabet) is one commonly used extension of the factorial function to complex numbers. The gamma function is defined for all complex numbers except the non-positive integers. For every positive integer n, Derived by Daniel Bernoulli, for complex numbers with a positive real part, the gamma function is defined via a convergent improper integral: The gamma function then is defined as the analytic continuation of this integral function to a meromorphic function that is holomorphic in the whole complex plane except zero and the negative integers, where the function has simple poles.

Incomplete gamma function

In mathematics, the upper and lower incomplete gamma functions are types of special functions which arise as solutions to various mathematical problems such as certain integrals. Their respective names stem from their integral definitions, which are defined similarly to the gamma function but with different or "incomplete" integral limits. The gamma function is defined as an integral from zero to infinity. This contrasts with the lower incomplete gamma function, which is defined as an integral from zero to a variable upper limit.

Hadamard's gamma function

In mathematics, Hadamard's gamma function, named after Jacques Hadamard, is an extension of the factorial function, different from the classical gamma function (it is an instance of a pseudogamma function.) This function, with its argument shifted down by 1, interpolates the factorial and extends it to real and complex numbers in a different way than Euler's gamma function. It is defined as: where Γ(x) denotes the classical gamma function. If n is a positive integer, then: Unlike the classical gamma function, Hadamard's gamma function H(x) is an entire function, i.

Reciprocal gamma function

In mathematics, the reciprocal gamma function is the function where Γ(z) denotes the gamma function. Since the gamma function is meromorphic and nonzero everywhere in the complex plane, its reciprocal is an entire function. As an entire function, it is of order 1 (meaning that log log grows no faster than log ), but of infinite type (meaning that log grows faster than any multiple of , since its growth is approximately proportional to log in the left-half plane).

Analytic function

In mathematics, an analytic function is a function that is locally given by a convergent power series. There exist both real analytic functions and complex analytic functions. Functions of each type are infinitely differentiable, but complex analytic functions exhibit properties that do not generally hold for real analytic functions. A function is analytic if and only if its Taylor series about converges to the function in some neighborhood for every in its domain.

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