Evaluation of generalized Mittag---Leffler functions on the real line

  • Authors:
  • Roberto Garrappa;Marina Popolizio

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Matematica, Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro", Bari, Italy 70125;Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica "Ennio De Giorgi", Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy 73100

  • Venue:
  • Advances in Computational Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

This paper addresses the problem of the numerical computation of generalized Mittag---Leffler functions with two parameters, with applications in fractional calculus. The inversion of their Laplace transform is an effective tool in this direction; however, the choice of the integration contour is crucial. Here parabolic contours are investigated and combined with quadrature rules for the numerical integration. An in-depth error analysis is carried out to select suitable contour's parameters, depending on the parameters of the Mittag---Leffler function, in order to achieve any fixed accuracy. We present numerical experiments to validate theoretical results and some computational issues are discussed.