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Title

Non-trivial Asymptotic Formulas by Symbolic Computation
Authors

Giuliano Gargiulo
Saverio Salerno
Organization: Universita degli Studi di Salerno
Department: DIIMA - Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione e Matematica Applicata
Conference

1999 International Mathematica Symposium
Description

We want to study the asymptotic behaviour of the complete elliptic integral of the first kind K(m) when m->1. This is motivated, for example, by the occurrence of K(m) as capacitance of a circular capacitor with slit (or similar geometries - see e.g. [9]), m being essentially the ratio between the slit's length and the radius of the circle. We show that the analysis of the asymptotic behaviour can be done in several ways (including series expansion and summation, symbolic integration and computation of limits) using both the numerical and symbolical capabilities of state-of-the-art Computer Algebra Systems.
Subject

*Mathematics > Calculus and Analysis > Calculus
Keywords

elliptic integrals, elliptic integral of the first kind, EllipticK, asymptotic behavior, series expansion, summation, symbolic integration, computation of limits
URL

http://www.internationalmathematicasymposium.org/IMS99/ims99papers/ims99papers.html