scipy.special.spherical_jn

scipy.special.spherical_jn(n, z, derivative=False)

Spherical Bessel function of the first kind or its derivative.

Defined as [R578],

\[j_n(z) = \sqrt{\frac{\pi}{2z}} J_{n + 1/2}(z),\]

where \(J_n\) is the Bessel function of the first kind.

Parameters:

n : int, array_like

Order of the Bessel function (n >= 0).

z : complex or float, array_like

Argument of the Bessel function.

derivative : bool, optional

If True, the value of the derivative (rather than the function itself) is returned.

Returns:

jn : ndarray

Notes

For real arguments greater than the order, the function is computed using the ascending recurrence [R579]. For small real or complex arguments, the definitional relation to the cylindrical Bessel function of the first kind is used.

The derivative is computed using the relations [R580],

\[ \begin{align}\begin{aligned}j_n'(z) = j_{n-1}(z) - \frac{n + 1}{z} j_n(z).\\j_0'(z) = -j_1(z)\end{aligned}\end{align} \]

New in version 0.18.0.

References

[R578]

(1, 2) http://dlmf.nist.gov/10.47.E3

[R579]

(1, 2) http://dlmf.nist.gov/10.51.E1

[R580]

(1, 2) http://dlmf.nist.gov/10.51.E2