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In mathematics, the coshc function appears frequently in papers about
optical scattering Scattering is a term used in physics to describe a wide range of physical processes where moving particles or radiation of some form, such as light or sound, are forced to deviate from a straight trajectory by localized non-uniformities (including ...
, Heisenberg spacetime and hyperbolic geometry. For z \neq 0, it is defined as \operatorname(z)=\frac It is a solution of the following differential equation: w( z) z-2\frac w (z) -z \frac w (z) =0


Properties

The first-order derivative is given by : \frac - \frac The
Taylor series In mathematics, the Taylor series or Taylor expansion of a function is an infinite sum of terms that are expressed in terms of the function's derivatives at a single point. For most common functions, the function and the sum of its Taylor serie ...
expansion is\operatorname z \approx \left(z^+\frac z+\frac z^3+\frac z^5+\frac z^7+\frac z^9+\frac z^+\frac z^+O(z^) \right) The Padé approximant is\operatorname \left( z \right) =


In terms of other special functions

* \operatorname(z) = \frac , where (a,b,z) is Kummer's
confluent hypergeometric function In mathematics, a confluent hypergeometric function is a solution of a confluent hypergeometric equation, which is a degenerate form of a hypergeometric differential equation where two of the three regular singularities merge into an irregular ...
. *\operatorname(z)=\frac\,\frac , where (q, \alpha, \gamma, \delta, \epsilon ,z) is the biconfluent Heun function. * \operatorname(z)= \frac , where (a,b,z) is a Whittaker function.


Gallery

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See also

* Tanc function * Tanhc function *
Sinhc function In mathematics, the sinhc function appears frequently in papers about optical scattering, Heisenberg spacetime and hyperbolic geometry. For z \neq 0, it is defined as \operatorname(z)=\frac The sinhc function is the hyperbolic analogue of the sinc ...


References

Special functions