Jacobi–Anger expansion
expansion of exponentials of trigonometric functions in the basis of their harmonics
In mathematics, the Jacobi–Anger expansion (or Jacobi–Anger identity) is an expansion of exponentials of trigonometric functions in the basis of their harmonics. It is useful in physics (for example, to convert between plane waves and cylindrical waves), and in signal processing (to describe FM signals). This identity is named after the 19th-century mathematicians Carl Jacobi and Carl Theodor Anger.
The most general identity is given by:
e
i
z
cos
θ
≡
∑
n
=
−
∞
∞
i
n
J
n
(
z
)
e
i
n
θ
,
{\displaystyle e^{iz\cos \theta }\equiv \sum _{n=-\infty }^{\infty }i^{n}\,J_{n}(z)\,e^{in\theta },}
where
J
n
(
z
)
{\displaystyle J_{n}(z)}
is the
n
{\displaystyle n}
-th Bessel function of the first kind and
i
{\displaystyle i}
is the imaginary unit,
i
2
=
−
1.
{\textstyle i^{2}=-1.}
Substituting
θ
{\textstyle \theta }
by
θ
−
π
2
{\textstyle \theta -{\frac {\pi }{2}}}
, we also get:
e
i
z
sin
θ
≡
∑
n
=
−
∞
∞
J
n
(
z
)
e
i
n
θ
.
{\displaystyle e^{iz\sin \theta }\equiv \sum _{n=-\infty }^{\infty }J_{n}(z)\,e^{in\theta }.}
Using the relation
J
−
n
(
z
)
=
(
−
1
)
n
J
n
(
z
)
,
{\displaystyle J_{-n}(z)=(-1)^{n}\,J_{n}(z),}
valid for integer
n
{\displaystyle n}
, the expansion becomes:
e
i
z
cos
θ
≡
J
0
(
z
)
+
2
∑
n
=
1
∞
i
n
J
n
(
z
)
cos
(
n
θ
)
.
{\displaystyle e^{iz\cos \theta }\equiv J_{0}(z)\,+\,2\,\sum _{n=1}^{\infty }\,i^{n}\,J_{n}(z)\,\cos \,(n\theta ).}
Real-valued expressions
The following real-valued variations are often useful as well:
cos
(
z
cos
θ
)
≡
J
0
(
z
)
+
2
∑
n
=
1
∞
(
−
1
)
n
J
2
n
(
z
)
cos
(
2
n
θ
)
,
sin
(
z
cos
θ
)
≡
−
2
∑
n
=
1
∞
(
−
1
)
n
J
2
n
−
1
(
z
)
cos
[
(
2
n
−
1
)
θ
]
,
cos
(
z
sin
θ
)
≡
J
0
(
z
)
+
2
∑
n
=
1
∞
J
2
n
(
z
)
cos
(
2
n
θ
)
,
sin
(
z
sin
θ
)
≡
2
∑
n
=
1
∞
J
2
n
−
1
(
z
)
sin
[
(
2
n
−
1
)
θ
]
.
{\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}\cos(z\cos \theta )&\equiv J_{0}(z)+2\sum _{n=1}^{\infty }(-1)^{n}J_{2n}(z)\cos(2n\theta ),\\\sin(z\cos \theta )&\equiv -2\sum _{n=1}^{\infty }(-1)^{n}J_{2n-1}(z)\cos \left[\left(2n-1\right)\theta \right],\\\cos(z\sin \theta )&\equiv J_{0}(z)+2\sum _{n=1}^{\infty }J_{2n}(z)\cos(2n\theta ),\\\sin(z\sin \theta )&\equiv 2\sum _{n=1}^{\infty }J_{2n-1}(z)\sin \left[\left(2n-1\right)\theta \right].\end{aligned}}}
See also
Plane wave expansion
Notes
References
Abramowitz, Milton; Stegun, Irene Ann, eds. (1983) [June 1964]. "Chapter 9".
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