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Bessel function  

Definition(s)

  • essel functions, first defined by the mathematician Daniel Bernoulli and then generalized by Friedrich Bessel, are canonical solutions y(x) of Bessel's differential equation

    for an arbitrary complex number , which represents the order of the Bessel function. Although and produce the same differential equation, it is conventional to define different Bessel functions for these two values in such a way that the Bessel functions are mostly smooth functions of .
    (Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessel_function)

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Synonym(s)

  • cylinder function

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