Uniform asymptotics of some Abel sums arising in coding theory

  • Authors:
  • Hsien-Kuei Hwang

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Statistical Science, Taiwan, ROC

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

We derive uniform asymptotic expressions of some Abel sums appearing in some problems in coding theory and indicate the usefulness of these sums in other fields, like empirical processes, machine maintenance, analysis of algorithms, probabilistic number theory, queuing models, etc.