Fungrim entry: fae9d3

{\operatorname{erf}}^{(n)}(z) = \frac{2}{\sqrt{\pi}} {\left(-1\right)}^{n + 1} H_{n - 1}\!\left(z\right) {e}^{-{z}^{2}}

Assumptions:

z \in \mathbb{C} \,\mathbin{\operatorname{and}}\, n \in \mathbb{Z}_{\ge 1}

TeX:

{\operatorname{erf}}^{(n)}(z) = \frac{2}{\sqrt{\pi}} {\left(-1\right)}^{n + 1} H_{n - 1}\!\left(z\right) {e}^{-{z}^{2}}

z \in \mathbb{C} \,\mathbin{\operatorname{and}}\, n \in \mathbb{Z}_{\ge 1}

Definitions:

Fungrim symbol	Notation	Short description
`Derivative`	$\frac{d}{d z}\, f\!\left(z\right)$	Derivative
`Erf`	$\operatorname{erf}\!\left(z\right)$	Error function
`Sqrt`	$\sqrt{z}$	Principal square root
`ConstPi`	$\pi$	The constant pi (3.14...)
`Pow`	${a}^{b}$	Power
`HermitePolynomial`	$H_{n}\!\left(z\right)$	Hermite polynomial
`Exp`	${e}^{z}$	Exponential function
`CC`	$\mathbb{C}$	Complex numbers
`ZZGreaterEqual`	$\mathbb{Z}_{\ge n}$	Integers greater than or equal to n

Source code for this entry:

Entry(ID("fae9d3"),
    Formula(Equal(Derivative(Erf(z), Tuple(z, z, n)), Mul(Mul(Mul(Div(2, Sqrt(ConstPi)), Pow(-1, Add(n, 1))), HermitePolynomial(Sub(n, 1), z)), Exp(Neg(Pow(z, 2)))))),
    Variables(z, n),
    Assumptions(And(Element(z, CC), Element(n, ZZGreaterEqual(1)))))

Topics using this entry

Error functions