Algorithm 779: Fermi-Dirac functions of order -1/2, 1/2, 3/2, 5/2

  • Authors:
  • Allan J. MacLeod

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. of Paisley, Paisley, Scotland, UK

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (TOMS)
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

The computation of Fermi-Dirac integrals *** is discussed for the values *** = -1, 1/2, 3/2, 5/2. We derive Chebyshev polynomial expansions which allow the computation of these functions to double precision IEEE accuracy.