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Hyperbolic Tangent
By way of analogy with the usual tangent
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(1)
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the hyperbolic tangent is defined as
where is the hyperbolic
sine and is the hyperbolic
cosine. The notation is sometimes
also used (Gradshteyn and Ryzhik 2000, p. xxix).
is implemented in Mathematica
as Tanh[z].
Special values include
where is the golden
ratio.
The derivative of is
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(7)
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and higher-order derivatives are given by
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(8)
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where is an Eulerian
number.
The indefinite integral is given by
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(9)
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has Taylor
series
(OEIS A002430 and A036279).
As Gauss showed in 1812, the hyperbolic tangent can be written using a continued
fraction as
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(12)
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(Wall 1948, p. 349; Olds 1963, p. 138). This continued fraction is also known as Lambert's continued fraction
(Wall 1948, p. 349).
The hyperbolic tangent satisfies
the second-order ordinary
differential equation
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(13)
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together with the boundary conditions and .
SEE ALSO: Bernoulli Number, Catenary, Correlation Coefficient--Bivariate
Normal Distribution, Fisher'
s z-'-Transformation,
Hyperbolic Cotangent, Hyperbolic
Functions, Inverse Hyperbolic Tangent,
Lorentz Group, Mercator
Projection, Oblate Spheroidal Coordinates,
Pseudosphere, Surface
of Revolution, Tangent, Tractrix
REFERENCES:
Abramowitz, M. and Stegun, I. A. (Eds.). "Hyperbolic Functions." §4.5 in Handbook
of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables, 9th printing.
New York: Dover, pp. 83-86, 1972.
Gradshteyn, I. S. and Ryzhik, I. M. Tables of Integrals, Series, and Products, 6th ed. San Diego, CA: Academic Press,
2000.
Jeffrey, A. "Hyperbolic Identities." §2.5 in Handbook of Mathematical Formulas and Integrals, 2nd ed. Orlando, FL: Academic Press,
pp. 117-122, 2000.
Olds, C. D. Continued
Fractions. New York: Random House, 1963.
Sloane, N. J. A. Sequences A002430/M2100 and A036279 in "The On-Line Encyclopedia
of Integer Sequences."
Spanier, J. and Oldham, K. B. "The Hyperbolic Tangent and Cotangent
Functions." Ch. 30 in
An
Atlas of Functions. Washington, DC: Hemisphere, pp. 279-284, 1987.
Wall, H. S. Analytic
Theory of Continued Fractions. New York: Chelsea, 1948.
Zwillinger, D. (Ed.). "Hyperbolic Functions." §6.7 in CRC Standard Mathematical Tables and Formulae. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, pp. 476-481
1995.
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