Advances in Mathematical Physics
Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 425164, 34 pages
doi:10.1155/2009/425164
Review Article

A Review of Procedures for Summing Kapteyn Series in Mathematical Physics

1Astronomical Institute, Universiteit Utrecht, Princetonplein 5, NL-3584CC Utrecht, The Netherlands
2Institut für Geowissenschaften, Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät III, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle, 06099 Halle, Germany

Received 8 July 2009; Revised 4 November 2009; Accepted 4 December 2009

Academic Editor: M. Lakshmanan

Copyright © 2009 R. C. Tautz and I. Lerche. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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