“Best possible” upper and lower bounds for the zeros of the Bessel function $J_\nu (x)$
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Abstract:
Let $j_{\nu ,k}$ denote the $k$-th positive zero of the Bessel function $J_\nu (x)$. In this paper, we prove that for $\nu >0$ and $k=1$, 2, 3, $\ldots$, \[ \nu - \frac {a_k}{2^{1/3}} \nu ^{1/3} < j_{\nu ,k} < \nu - \frac {a_k}{2^{1/3}} \nu ^{1/3} + \frac {3}{20} a_k^2 \frac {2^{1/3}}{\nu ^{1/3}} . \] These bounds coincide with the first few terms of the well-known asymptotic expansion \[ j_{\nu ,k} \sim \nu - \frac {a_k}{2^{1/3}} \nu ^{1/3} + \frac {3}{20} a_k^2 \frac {2^{1/3}}{\nu ^{1/3}} + \cdots \] as $\nu \to \infty$, $k$ being fixed, where $a_k$ is the $k$-th negative zero of the Airy function $\operatorname {Ai}(x)$, and so are “best possible”.References
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Additional Information
- C. K. Qu
- Affiliation: Department of Applied Mathematics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
- R. Wong
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong
- MR Author ID: 192744
- Email: mawong@cityu.edu.hk
- Received by editor(s): July 22, 1996
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: March 18, 1997
- Published electronically: March 18, 1999
- © Copyright 1999 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 351 (1999), 2833-2859
- MSC (1991): Primary 41A60, 33C45
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-99-02165-0
- MathSciNet review: 1466955