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Further on the Points of Inflection of Bessel Functions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Lee Lorch
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, North York, Ontario M3J 1P3, e-mail:[email protected]
Peter Szego
Affiliation:
75 Glen Eyrie Avenue; Apt. 19, San Jose, California 95125, U.S.A
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Abstract

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We offer here a substantial simplification and shortening of a proof of the monotonicity of the abscissae of the points of inflection of Bessel functions of the first kind and positive order.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1996

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