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Built-in Functions

Mathematical Functions

Hypergeometric Related

BesselJ

Usage

• BesselJ[n, z] gives the Bessel function of the first kind .

Notes

• Mathematical function (see Section A.3.10).

•

satisfies the differential equation

.

• BesselJ[n, z] has a branch cut discontinuity in the complex z plane running from

to

.

• FullSimplify and FunctionExpand include transformation rules for BesselJ.

• See Section 3.2.11.

• See also: BesselY, StruveH, BesselK.

• Related package: NumericalMath`BesselZeros`.

• New in Version 1.

Further Examples

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