Preface | p. iii |
Operators and Functions | p. 1 |
Operators | p. 1 |
Factorial function--Stirling numbers | p. 4 |
Beta function--factorial Series | p. 7 |
[psi] Function and primitives | p. 10 |
Laplace and Mellin transformations | p. 12 |
Some operational formulae | p. 17 |
Problems | p. 17 |
Generalities on Difference Equations | p. 21 |
Genesis of difference equations | p. 21 |
The M/M/C blocking model | p. 24 |
The M/M/1 delay model | p. 24 |
The time homogeneous first-order model | p. 25 |
The Euler equation | p. 25 |
Problems | p. 31 |
Norlund Sum: Part One | p. 32 |
Introduction | p. 32 |
Principal solution | p. 33 |
Some properties of the sum | p. 34 |
Summation of series | p. 37 |
Summation by parts | p. 38 |
Differentiation | p. 39 |
Extension of definition of sum | p. 39 |
Repeated summation | p. 40 |
Sum of Laplace transforms | p. 41 |
Homogeneous form and bounds | p. 44 |
Bernoulli's polynomials | p. 50 |
Computational formulae | p. 56 |
Problems | p. 68 |
Norlund Sum: Part Two | |
Introduction | p. 75 |
The Euler-Maclaurin expansion | p. 75 |
Existence of the principal sum | p. 77 |
Trigonometric expansions | p. 84 |
A class of linear transformations | p. 89 |
Applications to expansions and functional equations | p. 96 |
Application to the Norlund sum | p. 99 |
Bound, error estimate, and convolution form | p. 101 |
Consideration of some integral equations | p. 102 |
Bandlimited functions | p. 105 |
Problems | p. 105 |
The First-Order Difference Equation | p. 109 |
Introduction | p. 109 |
The linear homogeneous equation | p. 110 |
The inhomogeneous equation | p. 114 |
The differential-difference equation | p. 122 |
Derivative | p. 129 |
Functional equations | p. 132 |
U-operator solution of [characters not reproducible]Z = [theta](Z) | p. 138 |
Critical points | p. 143 |
A branching process approximation | p. 145 |
A perturbation solution of [characters not reproducible]Z = [theta](Z) | p. 147 |
Haldane's method for [characters not reproducible]Z = [theta](Z) | p. 149 |
Solution of G([phis](z)) - l(z)G(z) = m(z) | p. 151 |
Simultaneous first-order equations | p. 154 |
Problems | p. 162 |
The Linear Equation With Constant Coefficients | p. 172 |
Introduction | p. 172 |
The homogeneous equation | p. 173 |
The inhomogeneous equation | p. 179 |
Equations reducible to constant coefficients | p. 188 |
Partial difference equations | p. 189 |
Problems | p. 198 |
Linear Difference Equations with Polynomial Coefficients | p. 200 |
Introduction | p. 200 |
Depression of order | p. 201 |
The operators [pi] and [rho] | p. 203 |
General operational solution | p. 210 |
Exceptional cases | p. 217 |
The complete equation | p. 222 |
The LCFS M/M/C queue with reneging--introduction | p. 226 |
Formulation and solution | p. 228 |
An M/M/1 processor-sharing queue | p. 234 |
Problems | p. 236 |
References | p. 237 |
Index | p. 241 |
Table of Contents provided by Syndetics. All Rights Reserved. |