A method for the determination of converging factors, applied to the asymptotic expansions for the parabolic cylinder functions

Abstract

1. The method of converging factors, for hastening the convergence of slowly convergentseries and improving the accuracy of asymptotic expansions, was introduced by J. R. Airey and is well known to computers (see Airey(1) and Rosser(2)). The principle is as follows. It is required to compute a quantity which is expressed as an infinite seriesThe series may be either convergent or asymptotic and divergent.