Remodified Bessel Functions via Coincidences and Near Coincidences
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By considering a particular probabilistic scenario associated with coincidences, we are led to a family of functions akin to the modified Bessel function of the first kind. These are in turn solutions to a certain family of linear differential equations possessing structural similarities to the modified Bessel differential equation. The Stirling number triangle of the second kind arises quite naturally from these differential equations, as do more complicated, yet related, truncated number triangles, none of which appear in Sloane’s On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.
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تاریخ انتشار 2011