Mittag-Leffler function

English

Etymology

Named after Gösta Mittag-Leffler.

Proper noun

the Mittag-Leffler function

(complex analysis) A complex function defined as $E_{\alpha ,\beta }(z)=\sum _{k=0}^{\infty }{\frac {z^{k}}{\Gamma (\alpha k+\beta )}}$ , where $\Gamma (x)$ is the gamma function.
The Mittag-Leffler function can be used to interpolate continuously between a Gaussian and a Lorentzian function.

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