NAG Library Routine Document

S21CCF

These functions are important in practice because every one of the Jacobian elliptic functions (see S21CBF) can be expressed as the ratio of two Jacobian theta functions (see Whittaker and Watson (1990)). There is also a bewildering variety of notations used in the literature to define them. Some authors (e.g., Section 16.27 of Abramowitz and Stegun (1972)) define the argument in the trigonometric terms to be

x

instead of

π x

. This can often lead to confusion, so great care must therefore be exercised when consulting the literature. Further details (including various relations and identities) can be found in the references.

S21CCF is based on a truncated series approach. If

t

differs from

x

- x

by an integer when

0 \leq t \leq \frac{1}{2}

, it follows from the periodicity and symmetry properties of the functions that

θ_{1} (x, q) = \pm θ_{1} (t, q)

and

θ_{3} (x, q) = \pm θ_{3} (t, q)

. In a region for which the approximation is sufficiently accurate,

θ_{1}

is set equal to the first term (

n = 0

) of the transformed series

θ_{1} (t, q) = 2 \sqrt{\frac{λ}{π}} e^{- λ t^{2}} \sum_{n = 0}^{\infty} {(- 1)}^{n} e^{- λ {(n + \frac{1}{2})}^{2}} \sinh \{(2 n + 1) λ t\}

and

θ_{3}

is set equal to the first two terms (i.e.,

n \leq 1

) of

θ_{3} (t, q) = \sqrt{\frac{λ}{π}} e^{- λ t^{2}} \{1 + 2 \sum_{n = 1}^{\infty} e^{- λ n^{2}} \cosh (2 n λ t)\},

where

λ = π^{2} / |\log_{e} q|

. Otherwise, the trigonometric series for

θ_{1} (t, q)

and

θ_{3} (t, q)

are used. For all values of

x

θ_{0}

and

θ_{2}

are computed from the relations

θ_{0} (x, q) = θ_{3} (\frac{1}{2} - |x|, q)

and

θ_{2} (x, q) = θ_{1} (\frac{1}{2} - |x|, q)

4 References

Abramowitz M and Stegun I A (1972) Handbook of Mathematical Functions (3rd Edition) Dover Publications

Byrd P F and Friedman M D (1971) Handbook of Elliptic Integrals for Engineers and Scientists pp. 315–320 (2nd Edition) Springer–Verlag

Magnus W, Oberhettinger F and Soni R P (1966) Formulas and Theorems for the Special Functions of Mathematical Physics 371–377 Springer–Verlag

Tølke F (1966) Praktische Funktionenlehre (Bd. II) 1–38 Springer–Verlag

Whittaker E T and Watson G N (1990) A Course in Modern Analysis (4th Edition) Cambridge University Press

5 Parameters

1: $K$ – INTEGERInput: On entry: denotes the function $θ_{k} (x, q)$ to be evaluated. Note that $K = 4$ is equivalent to $K = 0$ .

Constraint: $0 \leq K \leq 4$ .
2: $X$ – REAL (KIND=nag_wp)Input: On entry: the argument $x$ of the function.
3: $Q$ – REAL (KIND=nag_wp)Input: On entry: the argument $q$ of the function.

Constraint: $0.0 \leq Q < 1.0$ .
4: $IFAIL$ – INTEGERInput/Output: On entry: IFAIL must be set to $0$ , $- 1 or 1$ . If you are unfamiliar with this parameter you should refer to Section 3.3 in the Essential Introduction for details.
For environments where it might be inappropriate to halt program execution when an error is detected, the value $- 1 or 1$ is recommended. If the output of error messages is undesirable, then the value $1$ is recommended. Otherwise, if you are not familiar with this parameter, the recommended value is $0$ . When the value $- 1 or 1$ is used it is essential to test the value of IFAIL on exit.

On exit: $IFAIL = 0$ unless the routine detects an error or a warning has been flagged (see Section 6).

6 Error Indicators and Warnings

If on entry

IFAIL = 0

- 1

, explanatory error messages are output on the current error message unit (as defined by X04AAF).

Errors or warnings detected by the routine:

$IFAIL = 1$

On entry,	$K < 0$ ,
or	$K > 4$ ,
or	$Q < 0.0$ ,
or	$Q \geq 1.0$ ,

$IFAIL = 2$: The evaluation has been abandoned because the function value is infinite. The result is returned as the largest machine representable number (see X02ALF).

$IFAIL = - 99$: An unexpected error has been triggered by this routine. Please contact NAG.
See Section 3.8 in the Essential Introduction for further information.

$IFAIL = - 399$: Your licence key may have expired or may not have been installed correctly.
See Section 3.7 in the Essential Introduction for further information.

$IFAIL = - 999$: Dynamic memory allocation failed.
See Section 3.6 in the Essential Introduction for further information.

7 Accuracy

In principle the routine is capable of achieving full relative precision in the computed values. However, the accuracy obtainable in practice depends on the accuracy of the standard elementary functions such as sin and cos.

8 Parallelism and Performance

Not applicable.

9 Further Comments

None.

10 Example

This example evaluates

θ_{2} (x, q)

x = 0.7

when

q = 0.4

, and prints the results.

NAG Library Routine DocumentS21CCF

▸▿ Contents

1 Purpose

2 Specification

3 Description