scipy.special.spherical_jn

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

Spherical Bessel function of the first kind or its derivative.

Defined as [R524],

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

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 [R525]. 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 [R526],

\[ \begin{align}\begin{aligned}j_n' = j_{n-1} - \frac{n + 1}{2} j_n.\\j_0' = -j_1\end{aligned}\end{align} \]

New in version 0.18.0.

References

[R524]

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

[R525]

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

[R526]

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