Bateman function

In mathematics, the Bateman function (or k-function) k_n is a special case of the confluent hypergeometric function studied by Bateman (1931). Bateman defined it by

\displaystyle k_{n}(x)={\frac {2}{\pi }}\int _{0}^{{\pi /2}}\cos(x\tan \theta -n\theta )\,d\theta

This is not to be confused with another function of the same name which is used in Pharmacokinetics.

References

Bateman, H. (1931), "The k-function, a particular case of the confluent hypergeometric function", Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 33 (4): 817–831, ISSN 0002-9947, MR 1501618, doi:10.2307/1989510
Hazewinkel, Michiel, ed. (2001) [1994], "Bateman function", Encyclopedia of Mathematics, Springer Science+Business Media B.V. / Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN 978-1-55608-010-4

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