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Math4822A (Math391N) Classical Analysis (2011-2012, Fall Semester)

This document provides information about the MATH4822A (MATH391N) Classical Analysis course for the 2011-2012 fall semester. It includes details about the instructor, meeting time, course description, assessment scheme, student learning resources, teaching approach, intended learning outcomes, and course schedule. The course will cover topics such as infinite products, the Gamma function, Fuchsian differential equations, hypergeometric functions, Barnes' integrals, and Bessel functions. Students will be assessed based on regular homework, a project presentation, and a final examination.

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Math4822A (Math391N) Classical Analysis (2011-2012, Fall Semester)

This document provides information about the MATH4822A (MATH391N) Classical Analysis course for the 2011-2012 fall semester. It includes details about the instructor, meeting time, course description, assessment scheme, student learning resources, teaching approach, intended learning outcomes, and course schedule. The course will cover topics such as infinite products, the Gamma function, Fuchsian differential equations, hypergeometric functions, Barnes' integrals, and Bessel functions. Students will be assessed based on regular homework, a project presentation, and a final examination.

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MATH4822A (MATH391N) CLASSICAL

ANALYSIS
(2011-2012, Fall semester)

September 15, 2011

Course Home Page:

http://www.math.ust.hk/~machiang/391N/391N_09_10.htm

(more updated lecture notes will be distributed during lectures)

Instructor: Prof. Edmund Y. M. Chiang (E-mail:[email protected],


Tel: 2358-7441)

Meeting Time: L1 Mon. 16:00-17:50, lecture room 3494 (lifts 25/26)

Course Description: 2-credit. The course gives an introduction


in various topics on classical analysis. Topics include: infinite
products, Gamma function; Fuchsian Equations; Hypergeometric functions;
Confluent Hypergeometric function; Barnes’s integrals, Bessel Functions,
, Schwarz’s problem; tentative topics include: Elliptic functions,
various orthogonal polynomials, Láme equation; , etc.

Assessment Scheme: Distribution of Marks: Regular homework


(%20) + Project presentation (%20) + final examination (%60).

Student Learning resources: Lecture notes and

1. N. N. Lebedev ‘‘Special Functions and Their Applications",


Translated by R. A. Silverman, Dover Pulb. N. Y. 1972.

2. E. D. Rainville, "Special Functions", Chelsea Pulb. Comp.,


N. Y., 1960.

3. G. Andrews, R. Askey and R. Roy, "Special Functions", Camb.


Univ. Press, 1999.

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4. Lars Ahlfors "Complex Analysis", McGraw-Hill; 3 edition, 1979
(It contains a Chap. on hypergeometric functions) .

5. see the bibliography of the Notes.

Teaching Approach: Lecture notes will be provided as well as project


presentations to facilitate the learning. Occasional guest speakers
will be invited to give applications of certain classical analysis
topics.

Intended Learning Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this


course, students should be able to understand:

• convergence of infinite products of complex numbers and functions


that converge uniformly in compact subsets of the complex plane.

• Gamma and Bate functions and their applications.

• Fuchsian-type equations and regular singular points and their


implications.

• Gauss hypergeometric equations and functions, and their special


cases such as the Bessel functions, Laguerre and Hermite polynomials.

• Barnes’s integrals and their applications.

Course Schedule:
Week Content References
1 Overview, Infinite products Chap. 1, 2
2 Infinite products, Euler’s constant Chap. 2, 3
3 Gamma function, Bata funciton, Integral representation and analyticity Chap. 3
4 Stirling formula of Gamma function, Gauss’s multiplication formula Chap. 3
5 Linear differential equations, regular singular points Chap. 4
6 Double indicial exponents, Fuchsian differential equations Chap. 5
7 Riemann’s P −scheme, Hypergeometric equation Chap. 5
8 Hypergeometric series, Euler Integral representation Chap. 5
9 Kummer’s 24 solutions, Analytic continuation Chap. 5
10 Barnes’s integrals and applications Chap. 6
11 Frobenius’s method, degenerated Hypergeometric functions Chap. 7
12 Confluent hypergeometric equation, Bessel functions Chap. 8
13 Bessel equation, Fourier-Bessel series Chap. 9
14 Kummer’s function, Generating functions, orthogonal polynomials. Chap. 9

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