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# scipy.special.hankel2

`scipy.special.``hankel2`(v, z) = <ufunc 'hankel2'>

  Hankel function of the second kind

  Parameters: | v : array_like Order (float). z : array_like Argument (float or complex).
  Returns: | out : Values of the Hankel function of the second kind.

  See also

  `hankel2e`
    this function with leading exponential behavior stripped off.

  Notes

  A wrapper for the AMOS [R437] routine zbesh, which carries out the computation using the relation,

  \[H^{(2)}_v(z) = -\frac{2}{\imath\pi} \exp(\imath \pi v/2) K_v(z \exp(\imath\pi/2))\]

  where \(K_v\) is the modified Bessel function of the second kind. For negative orders, the relation

  \[H^{(2)}_{-v}(z) = H^{(2)}_v(z) \exp(-\imath\pi v)\]

  is used.

  References

  [R437] | (1, 2) Donald E. Amos, “AMOS, A Portable Package for Bessel Functions of a Complex Argument and Nonnegative Order”, http://netlib.org/amos/