A treatise on the theory of Bessel functions, by G. N. Watson.

16-57] LOMMEL'S FUNCTIONS 547 and then the substitutions t = ceu and cosh u = r shew that 0f I b\ dt cos (x cosh u)du cos at + = I o o1 + t2 ceu + l/(ceu) f00 f 1 1 cos (x cosh it) + du cos (ceu + 1/(ce) +ce- + 1/(ce-) a + b 0 cos (x.'). rdr - Jx ( T2 + 72)(72 -) Now consider I f eix rTd 2ri (02+ T2) 2(7- )' where F is a contour consisting of the real axis and a large semicircle above it, the real axis being indented at T = + 1. The only pole of the integrand inside the contour is at iO, and so 1 f eixT 7 d' e-x0 27 i r (02 + 2) V(r2- 1) 2i (02 + )' As the radius of the large semicircle tends to infinity, the integral round it tends to zero by Jordan's lemma, and hence f0 cos (x). Td 1 f1 sin (xr). )drl 7re-x (02 + 72) V(T2 1 (02 + 72) V(- 72) 2 24( + 1) Thus we have 0cor ( b\ dt vre- a-b) a + b -fr sin (x cos q). cos do cos at+ +.0ost t 1 +t2= 2 2x Jo 02+cOs2 But Cos 4c But ^+eos2 == I+TC COS ~ C3 COS 3c + c5 cos 50 -...}, 02+cosq2 1 + cc and so we find that (3) cos at + -)t2= - c2 m- J2m-l (+). o t/ I r t2 n2=l Similarly it is found that* 1 t 77-r e-(a-b) 00 (4) j sin (at + tdt - S c2J2 n(X), I + t2 2 1 and (5) Pj~iO COS b\ dt Isn. 1n (5) Pf cos at+t)I_2= 7rsin(a + b)-7r ( —)m-l2-l 2m- (), * Th detail otenyswle'm=1 (6) P sin at+) 1 t0 7- cos((a+ b)-7 - ()m-202mJ (a). o deatlj 1 - thanlsswlbe foundinHrd=1l * The details of the analysis will be found in Hardy's paper.

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A treatise on the theory of Bessel functions, by G. N. Watson.
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Watson, G. N. (George Neville), 1886-
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Cambridge, [Eng.]: The University press,
1922.
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Bessel functions

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