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# scipy.special.hyp1f1

scipy.special.hyp1f1(a, b, x, out=None) = <ufunc 'hyp1f1'>

  Confluent hypergeometric function 1F1.

  The confluent hypergeometric function is defined by the series

  \[{}_1F_1(a; b; x) = \sum_{k = 0}^\infty \frac{(a)_k}{(b)_k k!} x^k.\]

  See [dlmf] for more details. Here \((\cdot)_k\) is the Pochhammer symbol; see `poch`.

  Parameters:
    a, b array_like

      Real parameters

    x array_like

      Real or complex argument

    out ndarray, optional

      Optional output array for the function results

  Returns:
    scalar or ndarray

      Values of the confluent hypergeometric function

  See also

  `hyperu`

    another confluent hypergeometric function

  `hyp0f1`

    confluent hypergeometric limit function

  `hyp2f1`

    Gaussian hypergeometric function

  Notes

  For real values, this function uses the `hyp1f1` routine from the C++ Boost library [2], for complex values a C translation of the specfun Fortran library [3].

  References

  [dlmf]

  NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions https://dlmf.nist.gov/13.2#E2

  [2]

  The Boost Developers. “Boost C++ Libraries”. https://www.boost.org/.

  [3]

  Zhang, Jin, “Computation of Special Functions”, John Wiley and Sons, Inc, 1996.

  Examples

      >>> import numpy as np
      >>> import scipy.special as sc

  It is one when x is zero:

      >>> sc.hyp1f1(0.5, 0.5, 0)
      1.0

  It is singular when b is a nonpositive integer.

      >>> sc.hyp1f1(0.5, -1, 0)
      inf

  It is a polynomial when a is a nonpositive integer.

      >>> a, b, x = -1, 0.5, np.array([1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0])
      >>> sc.hyp1f1(a, b, x)
      array([-1., -3., -5., -7.])
      >>> 1 + (a / b) * x
      array([-1., -3., -5., -7.])

  It reduces to the exponential function when `a = b`.

      >>> sc.hyp1f1(2, 2, [1, 2, 3, 4])
      array([ 2.71828183,  7.3890561 , 20.08553692, 54.59815003])
      >>> np.exp([1, 2, 3, 4])
      array([ 2.71828183,  7.3890561 , 20.08553692, 54.59815003])