Is the Airy Function Normalized?

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Irid

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Sep 18, 2013

Is the Airy function (of the first kind) normalized? If I take the integral

Ai(x) dx

on the entire axis, does it converge to 1? I can't find this property by googling around :(

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fzero

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Sep 18, 2013

Yes, see 9.10.11 at http://dlmf.nist.gov/9.10.

Irid

Sep 18, 2013

cool, thanks mate!

Is the Airy Function Normalized?

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