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jacobi_zeta

Function jacobi_zeta 

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pub fn jacobi_zeta<P, E, V>(phi: V, k: V) -> V
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The Jacobi zeta function $Z(\varphi, k)$.

The oscillating part of the incomplete integral of the second kind (what is left of $E(\varphi, k)$ once its linear growth is removed):

Z(\varphi, k) = E(\varphi, k) - \frac{E(k)}{K(k)} F(\varphi, k)

Odd in phi, pi-periodic, and exactly zero at every multiple of pi/2.

That defining difference is not how it is evaluated. Both terms grow with phi while Z does not, so the subtraction cancels wherever Z is small, which is near the zeros, i.e. everywhere the function is most delicate. The Carlson form used instead has no subtraction in it at all:

Z(\varphi, k) = \frac{k^2 \sin\varphi \cos\varphi \sqrt{1 - k^2\sin^2\varphi}}{3 K(k)}
                R_J(0,\ k'^2,\ 1,\ 1 - k^2\sin^2\varphi)

and $1 - k^2\sin^2\varphi$ is itself formed as $k'^2 + k^2\cos^2\varphi$, a sum of two non-negative terms, so it cannot cancel either. Measured against the defining difference at 40 digits, worst relative error 3.1e-15 over k to 0.999 and |phi| to 4.5.

No sign fixup is needed: sin is odd and every other factor is even in phi, so the oddness falls out. k = 1 is the one modulus with no Carlson form ($k'^2 = 0$ gives R_J two zero arguments and K is infinite) and takes the limit $\sin\varphi\,\operatorname{sign}(\cos\varphi)$ instead.

Last built: 2026-09-08 21:35:55 UTC