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UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH

SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS

Advanced Methods of Applied Mathematics ASSIGNMENT 3

(1)
1. The Hankel function of the first kind of order ⌫, H⌫ , can be expressed in the integral
representation Z
1 1+⇡i z sinh t ⌫t
H⌫(1) (z) = e dt.
⇡i 1
The contour of integration in the complex plane is

t plane

(1)
The Hankel function H⌫ (z) = J⌫ (z) + iY⌫ (z), where J⌫ (z) and Y⌫ (z) are Bessel func-
tions of the first and second kinds of order ⌫, respectively. Hankel functions arise in
electromagnetic theory and other wave problems, for instance water waves on beaches.

(a) Show that the integrand has a saddle point at t = i⇡/2 and that the steepest
descent path through this point can be approximated in the neighbourhood of
t = i⇡/2 by the straight line t = x + i(⇡/2 + x).
(b) Use the result of part (a) to show that the leading term in the asymptotic expansion
(1)
of H⌫ (z) as z ! 1 is
p
2
H⌫ (z) ⇠ p eiz i⌫⇡/2 i⇡/4 .
(1)
⇡z
2. (a) Show that Z 1
k 1 nx k
k!n = e x dx
0
for n an integer.
(b) Hence show that as n ! 1
n
! p
X n ⇡n
k
k!n ⇠ p .
k=0
k 2

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